June 27, 2014

LaWana Mayfield and Keisha Waites Join Elite LGBT Leadership Fellows

The Gay & Lesbian Victory Institute and the David Bohnett Foundation announced three graduates of the David Bohnett LGBT Leadership Fellowship. The three fellows for the June 2014 class spent three weeks of intense state and local government programing at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Mass.
June 26, 2014

Whitman-Walker Health Unveils 'The Walk to End HIV'

Whitman-Walker Health announced yesterday that after 27 years, AIDS Walk Washington will become The Walk to End HIV. “This name change reflects a cataclysmic shift to what HIV is today – a chronic, manageable disease,” says Don Blanchon, Executive Director of Whitman-Walker Health."
June 25, 2014
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What's In a Name?

Tips on legally changing your name
At some point in your life, you may want to change your name—because of a change in your marital status or gender or simply because you don’t like the one you have. Making this a permanent, legal change takes a little bit of work, but people do it every day.
June 23, 2014
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Justice for Young Lesbian Couple

After two years of active investigation, Texas law enforcement officials are believed to have found the man responsible for the shooting of two young lesbian women, 18-year-old Mary Chapa and her girlfriend, 19-year-old Mollie Olgin, who were gunned down on June 22, 2012.