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SMYAL Names Sultan Shakir New Executive Director

Mike Schwartz, chair of the SMYAL Board of Directors, announced the appointment of Sultan Shakir as the organization’s new Executive Director, effective August 4. SMYAL supports and empowers lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region.

Victory Fund Endorses Courtney Snowden for D.C. City Council

The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, the nation’s largest resource for openly LGBT individuals in politics, endorsed Courtney Snowden for Washington, D.C. City Council, at-large.

Photos: Women's Networking Wednesday

The Capital Area Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce held their monthly Women’s Networking Wednesday on July 16, 2014 at the Human Rights Campaign. The organization teamed up with HRC, Team DC, and Washington Mystics for their monthly event.

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.