Downtown Events: March for Equality, Bike for the Heart

As Pressure Grows, Obama Addresses Gay Rights Group
Article | President Obama, struggling to keep promises he made during last year's campaign, renewed his pledge to end the military's ban on openly gay service members as he appeared at a fundraising dinner for the nation's largest gay advocacy group on Saturday night.

Gay-marriage opponents sue to force referendum
Article | The decision by the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics to block an initiative to ban same-sex marriage reverberated on Capitol Hill and in courts Wednesday as the battle over whether voters should have a say in the debate continues. Bishop Harry Jackson, represented by attorneys from a conservative