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At a ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 14, at The Schuyler at The Hamilton Hotel, the Capital Pride Alliance, and its global partner InterPride, unveiled the official theme of WorldPride 2025 — “The Fabric of Freedom.”The theme was selected, in part, due to the result of the recent 2024 U.S.

homosexuality is immoral and oppose any sexual activity outside of heterosexual marriage.Officials at Jackson-Reed High School argued that the requirement conflicted with its nondiscrimination policies, which, like D.C.’s human rights law, prohibits disparate treatment or harassment of LGBTQ individuals.The school said it would allow the chapter to remain active if it dissociated from the national FCA or changed its policy regarding the limiting of leaders.A student sought to reactivate the chapter, with school and district officials saying the FCA could remain on campus if it simply elected its leaders, arguing that it was protecting the safety and well-being of students by “promoting an equitable environment free of discrimination.”The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a right-wing conservative legal group, argued that the school district and school officials had discriminated against FCA members by not permitting them to be recognized as an official club, claiming they were being treated differently from other school-recognized groups. In court, Jackson-Reed Principal Sah Brown said that only four of 60 school-recognized clubs have been authorized to exclude members or leaders based on gender identity, race, ethnicity, national origin, or other protected characteristics.But he also noted that none of those clubs had actually enforced those exclusions and that each club had dropped language restricting membership from the school’s official website.The office of D.C.

Fellow Travelers, in which Bomer and Jonathan Bailey star as secret lovers who meet in McCarthy-era Washington.While a rapt audience inside the screening room enjoyed the series’ racy, ’70s-era Fire Island episode, Bomer, prompted by our discussion of whether actors are destined for certain roles, mused on his uncertain path to his SAG Award-nominated role as closeted WWII vet turned State Department official Hawkins Fuller.“It’s so interesting, because this came to me early on and I was so pessimistic about it,” he says. “I started out in this industry — I’ve been doing this almost 30 years — at a time when something like this just wouldn’t get made, period.”Still, throughout his career, the erstwhile White Collar lead has represented the LGBTQ community admirably offscreen, and in stage and screen revivals of The Boys in the Band, and his Golden Globe-winning portrayal of a writer with AIDS in HBO’s The Normal Heart.“We have seen this slow ebb of progress happening in Hollywood in our storytelling,” he says, citing Fellow Travelers creator Ron Nyswaner’s “beautiful scripts,” and the support of Showtime and Paramount for the show as prime examples of that progress.

Fellow Travelers star Jonathan Bailey says he was threatened with violence during a recent trip to Washington, D.C.Speaking with the Evening Standard as part of a profile for the newspaper, the British-born actor recounted attending the Human Rights Campaign’s National Dinner, an annual gala held in Washington, D.C., back in October.During the gala, he introduced actor and Fellow Travelers co-star Matt Bomer, who was receiving HRC’s Impact Award, which recognizes members of the LGBTQ community dedicated to advocating for queer issues.He also recalled meeting President Joe Biden and television producer Shonda Rhimes, who received HRC’s National Equality Award. The night was so exciting and so special that Bailey recalls not being able to get much sleep.“I woke up the next morning, it was like a montage.

event was canceled due to concerns over participants’ safety.The Trans Radical Activist Network, along with the activist collective Our Rights DC, which organized the event, noted that the event had received blowback following the revelation that the assailant in the recent mass shooting at a Christian school in Nashville identified as transgender.“This action will not be taking place Saturday due to a credible threat to life and safety,” the organization wrote in posts on social media. “The safety of our trans community is first priority.

Bob Dole represented Kansas as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1969 to 1996 and ran for president against Democrat Bill Clinton in 1996.Dole was a Kansas native, born July 22, 1923, in the small town of Russell.

Wes Unseld was a legendary Hall of Fame center for the Washington Bullets who was one of only two players in NBA history to win rookie of the year and MVP in the same season.