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D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and Police Chief Cathy Lanier agreed to increase the city's efforts to fight anti-gay hate crimes, but the mayor expressed reluctance to issue a formal public statement condemning anti-gay violence, according to officials of the local group Gays & Lesbians Opposing Violence. Fenty and Lanier met with GLOV's two co-chairs last Friday at Lanier's office in D.C. police headquarters on Indiana Avenue, N.W., at GLOV's request. Acting Lt. Brett Parson, who oversees the police's Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit, also attended the meeting. 'Mayor Fenty opened the meeting with a request for actionable suggestions on how the D.C. government could address the issue,' said GLOV co-chair Chris Farris, 'but would not commit to making a public statement acknowledging and condemning the violence, although we pressed hard for that.' Farris and GLOV's other co-chair, Todd Metrokin, said Fenty and Lanier were receptive to several other recommendations from GLOV, including one ca

Energy companies should be able to tap the billions of pounds of state funding being used to bail out the banks in order to create a post-recession low-carbon economy, says the government's climate change envoy.Elliot Morley wants the government to back clean energy projects such as offshore wind farms that cannot get funding because of the credit crunch.The MP and former environment minister says the financial stimulus packages being drawn up by governments around the world should not just put money into people's pockets. This risked encouraging further unsustainable consumerism and environmental damage, he warned the G20 group of leading nations.Morley is speaking tomorrow at a summit in London on climate change organised by Global International, the international policymakers' forum of which he is ­president. He told the Guardian that many of the financial packages put forward by governments so far including Britain's were not environmentally sustainable.'They are focusing on a quic

January 26 marks the start of the Year of the Ox in the Chinese or Lunar calendar. Those who were born in the years 1913, 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997 - and of course 2009 are 'Ox people' as astrologers would say. According to many sources, the qualities ...

There are many reasons people become interested in genealogy, from the death of a loved one to becoming aware of their own immortality.

How I became addicted to an obscure cable TV series about ordinary people who endure the most bizarre ordeals imaginable.

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. Two years ago Ted Haggard vanished into the gap that separates righteous, evangelical America from righteous, liberal America. By chance this cultural divide was defined to a large extent by attitudes about gay sex even before a male prostitute announced he had been sleeping with the president of the National Association of Evangelicals, and had sold him some methamphetamine.

Angry opponents of Proposition 8's ban on same-sex marriage took aim at the people who ran their losing campaign Saturday, charging that they ignored the gay and lesbian people behind the ballot measure. By bringing in professional consultants and making the...

New Orleans - Today the ACLU Foundation of Louisiana extended its support and congratulations to the City of New Orleans for its victory in the ongoing effort to undermine the domestic partner registry, which provides benefits to the City's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered employees and their families.