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Title: Washington Blade, March 19, 2004
Description: This edition features articles about D.C. Council’s opinions on same-sex marriages; George W. Bush’s special counsel Scott Bloch; a Massachusetts amendment to ban same-sex marriages and institute civil unions; the effects of a Virginia ban on recognizing same-sex unions from other states and the denial of same-sex benefits; a Maryland bill to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the state's hate crime statute; San Francisco, California mayor Gavin Newsom; a D.C. bill to expand same-sex partner benefits; a Delaware amendment to ban same-sex marriages; University of Virginia domestic partner benefits; stabbings at lesbian bar Between Friends during go-go night; a cancelled Dunbar High School event with SMYAL (Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League); Justice Blackmun on Bowers vs. Hardwick; stolen photos of gay Mormon missionaries; Rhode Island state representative hunger fast; jury selection in the Gwen Araujo trial; illegal silicone injections; the fundraising response to Bush’s stance on same-sex marriages; LGBTQIA+ golf club members advocating for same-sex partner benefits; Oregon counties issuing same-sex marriage licenses; a proposed amendment banning same-sex marriage in Wisconsin; Australia Prime Minister John Howard; LGBTQIA+ rights efforts and resistance in Singapore, Iran, Australia and the European Union; a straight organizer of Food and Friends winning Straight Ally of the Year; a John Kerry fundraiser at Duplex Diner in Adams Morgan; a violence against women protest at the US Capitol reflecting pool; a Maryland clinic giving incorrect HIV test results; Illinois legislation allowing organ transplants between HIV patients; LGBTQIA+ efforts to stop smoking; religious news from around the country; gay-straight alliances in schools; LGBTQIA+ clowns; a LGBTQIA+ DJ raising money for HIV/AIDS causes; Chinatown restaurant La Tasca; lesbian comedian Marga Gomez; lesbian music; 50 Cent; George Michael; Bette Midler; web-based LGBTQIA+ plays; antique shopping; and DJ Twisted Dee; as well as calendars for community events, sports, bars, and support services; obituaries; photos from a Dining out for Life fundraiser; Ms. Behavior and Woody Miller advice columns; letters to the editor on same-sex marriages; columns on crystal meth use and marriage in Portland, Oregon; a LGBTQIA+ wedding announcement; a “Bitch Session” column; book, movie, and television reviews; comic strips; escort listings, encounters listings, real estate listings, and classified advertisements.

Title: The Washington Blade, November 29, 1991
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on fallout over anti-lesbian jokes told by two presidential candidates at campaign events, analysis of the relations between gays and the police around the country, a profile of black gay activist Chauncey Lyles, an interview with D.C.'s Delegate to Congress Eleanor Holmes Norton, coverage of an AIDS discrimination case against a health insurer with clients in D.C. where the law bars insurance companies from denying coverage based on HIV status, an investigation by George Washington University police as waves of anonymous anti-gay fliers appeared around the campus, information about the 33 countries that required foreigners to submit negative HIV test results to qualify for visas, information about local drug trials recruiting volunteers, book and arts reviews, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 22, Number 48

Title: The Blade, November 21, 1979
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on women's history archives and lesbian heritage in DC, controversy about University of Maryland's ambivalent non-discrimination protections, an retaliatory closure of Dupont women's bar Tess following harassment, an examination of the difficulties faced by gay seminarians and religious leaders, part 2 of a series on black gay lives, reviews of gay-interest media, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 10, Number 23

Title: The Washington Blade, August 6, 1999
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles about the House of Representatives vote against a proposed amendment prohibiting unmarried DC couples from adopting children; House of Representatives measures for needle exchange and marijuana; United Airlines offering domestic partner benefits; a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that gay man James Dale was illegally fired from being assistant scoutmaster; Lambda Center survey on seeking gay-friendly providers for mental health or addiction treatment or counseling; the evacuation of lesbian bar Hung Jury after a bomb threat; metro news round-up, including a memo on condom distribution in bars, Brother Help Thyself's sponsoring of a safer sex program, decreased numbers of gay Latinos marching in the Latin American Heritage Festival Parade, and Maryland State Board of Education withdrawal of a proposal for adding sexual orientation to the state's anti-harassment policy; For the Record round-up of local meetings, including Lambda Car Club, gay and lesbian Activists Alliance, Washington Renegades Rugby Club, and gay and lesbian Atheists and Humanists; world news round-up, including a new policy allowing transsexuals to serve in the British armed forces, gay bashing in Namibia, and an online anti-Nazi law in Argentina; national news round-up, including gay man Tom Ammiano's intentions to run for San Francisco mayor, counter protests to a Nazi rally in Seattle, the preservation of Keith Haring's mural at the lesbian and gay Community Services Center in New York City, the California Supreme Court declining to review an appeal of a workplace discrimination award, Dan Quayle's opposition to gay marriage, a capitol Hill update, and other news in brief; a gay Men's Health Summit in Colorado, including a discussion about gay men's circuit parties; Occasions anniversary announcements; a readers forum; First Person column by Eve Diana about a tear gas attack during San Diego Pride; review by Patrick Folliard of Drag King Book by Del LaGrace Volcano and Jack Halberstam; review by David Noh of a gay film called Trick; review by Katherine Harris of a lesbian play called The Meeting Place; review by David Noh of Margaret Cho's show I'm the One That I Want; Comings and Goings and On the Air round-ups of gay media; appointments round-up of local arts events; Out and About and Community Notes round-ups of local upcoming meetings; Out in the Stars horoscopes; Religion and Spirituality round-up of local meetings and news; sports lineup of local upcoming events; classifieds; personals; E-files review of Country Bumpkins porn films; and encounters ads., Volume 30, Number 32

Title: The Washington Blade, March 29, 1996
Description: An independent weekly newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This issue features news articles on topics including the defeat of an anti-same-sex marriage bill in Colorado, an investigation into anti-lesbian activity in the Navy, Montgomery County (MD) Board of Education's prohibition of anti-LGBTQIA+ discrimination in schools, the retirement of publicly gay Navy officer Keith Meinhold, workshops for teaching women about breast health, a man sentenced to prison in D.C. for killing a transgender person in a car accident, the passage of a needle exchange program bill in D.C., 'For the Record' documenting updates in local community and activist groups, Maryland's increase in state funding for AIDS medication, a mass same-sex marriage ceremony in San Francisco (CA), openly gay figure skater Rudy Galindo's bronze medal win at the World Figure Skating Championships, the eighth National AIDS Update Conference in San Francisco (CA), the death of famous Supreme Court 'sodomy' case defendant Michael Hardwick, the first openly gay politician from the San Francisco Bay area to be elected to the California State Assembly, House Speaker Newt Gingrich's support for the 1996 National AIDS Candlelight March, the Department of Defense's failure to ban sexual orientation discrimination, and news affecting the LGBTQIA+ community in Cyprus, France, Italy, Brazil, San Diego (CA), Boston (MA), Charlotte (NC). Also included are 'Legal Briefs' highlighting legal issues affecting the gay and lesbian communities; 'Campaign Diary'; 'Capitol Hill Update'; 'AIDS Digest'; obituaries; 'Readers Forum' opinion columns; a 'Brady's Corner' cartoon; a 'Viewpoint' article covering lesbian activists; 'The Point' featuring articles about gay and lesbian themes in the arts, literature, and entertainment; 'On the Air' covering radio and television programs; 'Appointments: A Weekly Guide to Arts Events in and around the Nation's Capital'; 'Out and About' column of upcoming local events; 'Community Notes'; a 'Dykes to Watch Out For' cartoon by Alison Bechdel; 'Bar Guide'; 'Out in the Stars'; 'Religion and Spirituality'; 'This Week's Sports Lineup'; 'Classifieds'; 'Blade Personals'; and advertisements for businesses, churches, services, events, medication, and real estate., Volume 27, Number 13

Title: The Washington Blade, December 5, 1986
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on a book signing by feminist author Gloria Steinem at the Lammas bookstore in Dupont Circle, a settlement reached in a class action discrimination lawsuit involving more than 250 lesbians and gays who had worked for Pacific Bell telephone company, Supreme Court hearings on whether infectious diseases such as AIDS or tuberculosis could be classified as 'handicaps' under the federal Rehabilitation Act, the release of a State Department memo calling for mandatory HIV-testing for foreign service workers and their families out of concern for health care availability at overseas posts and consideration of perceptions abroad associating AIDS with the United States, the privatization of a federal AIDS information hotline with hope that that move would lead to a better quality of information, calls for DC City Council to reconsider a liquor law change that would allow residents more influence over the nightclubs in their neighborhood raising concerns about homophobic residents using that avenue to target and close gay bars, reviews of gay interest media including The AIDS Movie educational documentary, health information about safer sex in the AIDS era, a look at gay life in London, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 17, Number 49

Title: The Washington Blade, December 11, 1987
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on protests surrounding Soviet leader Gorbachev's state visit to Washington, D.C., organized opposition to Supreme Court nominee Anthony Kennedy, a White House report on strategies for increasing the number of people available to adopt children nevertheless recommending against allowing gays to adopt, a look back at the efforts of 1950s senators Lister Hill and Kenneth Wherry's personal efforts to purge the civil service of gays, frustration over the rejection of gay rights language in the 1988 Democratic National Platform as a 'narrow issue', the failure of an effort to remove the chief lawyer for DC's Democratic State Committee Carl Rowan Jr over anti-gay views, a look at the conflicts and difficulties in determining the prevalence of HIV infection in the United States, a strange turn in debates about how to ensure the confidentiality of patient medical information in federal AIDS drug studies as the Congressional Committee charged with developing a policy subpoenaed the medical records with personally identifiable information intact for participants in 5 major drug studies, hope for a domestic partnership bill in San Francisco as pro-gay Art Agnos was elected mayor, coverage of a Raisa Gorbachev look alike drag competition at a local gay bar during a U.S.-Soviet summit in D.C., the popularity of a cartoon by former Disney cartoonist Chic Tompson using non-explicit symbols to teach children about how HIV can and cannot be transmitted and how to use condoms, reviews of gay interest arts and media, information about caring for live holiday plants, recipes for holiday entertaining, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 18, Number 50

Title: The Washington Blade, June 28, 1991
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on updates on the efforts to convince the Department of Defense to end its policy of discharging gay military personnel, a discrimination case against Howard University Hospital for denying psychiatric care to an HIV-positive patient, analysis of the scientific findings presented at the the 7th International Conference on AIDS, statistics showing 1 in 3 women in 1991 had taken an HIV test compared to just 1 in 10 four years prior, the start of construction of a building for Whitman-Walker's lesbian health clinic, the end of a federal program that had made medical marijuana available to people with AIDS, coverage of D.C.'s Pride celebrations, concern over a potential second wave of the AIDS epidemic as statistics showed a sharp rise in the HIV infection rates, a win for a former Shell executive after the U.S. Army discovered he was gay while he worked on a defense contract and pressured Shell to fire him, a look at the agenda of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, protests at the White House over immigration policy that bans HIV-positive visitors to the United States, controversy over the film 'u201cBasic Instinct'u201d and discussion of broader issues of homophobia and censorship in films, book and arts reviews, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 22, Number 26

Title: The Washington Blade, April 2, 1999
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on the significance and effects of Equality at Home, the murder of a gay homeless man in Richmond, the merger between gay.com and gay.net, lesbian victims of domestic violence and their struggle to find help, the suspicious death of a gay man in Southwest DC, the addition of sexual orientation to a Maryland hate crimes bill, criticism of the Bank of Scotland's plan to open a 'direct bank' in the US, the suspension of a Methodist pastor for performing same-sex unions, jury selection for the Matthew Shepard murder case, a documentary called Cathedral of Hope airing on television, Frank Kameny's appearance on a talk show called American issues, and other local, national, and international news; obituaries; a 'Readers Forum' featuring letters from readers; a piece on accountability and diversity in advocacy groups; book, art, and music reviews; calendars for upcoming cultural, religious, and sporting events; an astrology section; classified, personals, and encounters ads; and advertisements for various services., Volume 30, Number 14

Title: The Washington Blade, September 3, 1999
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This issue features articles on New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani speaking to Log Cabin Republicans in Manhattan; The effect of the AIDS epidemic on the black community; Football player Cindy Jordan; E*Trade Group Inc. CEO Kathy Levinson; The 10th Annual International Friendship Weekend; Leaders of 'La Amistad' speaking out against homosexuality; D.C. club Tracks bouncers charged with 'bias'; The beating death of Pfc. Barry Winchell at Fort Campbell, Kentucky by Private Calvin Glover; Ball State University's study suggesting straights should emulate same-sex relationships; Protease inhibitor success rates; Hung Lai and John Kort's 20th anniversary; Tony Anderson; Bruce Lee Singleton; Howard Edwards; Author John-Manuel Andriote; movie, book, and theatre reviews; calendars for upcoming cultural, religious, and sporting events; classified, personals, and encounters ads; and advertisements for various events and services., Volume 30, Number 36

Title: The Washington Blade, March 26, 1999
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on Mayor Anthony Williams' promise to reconsider the Tyra Hunter wrongful death case and the city's AIDS spending, the kickoff of Equality Begins at Home, an anti-discrimination bill in Maryland, Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL)'s Project Safe Home, a public forum hosted by the Arlington Gay and Lesbian Alliance, the Matthew Shepard murder case, a poster campaign launched by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the restoration of the Gay and Lesbian American Caucus of the Democratic National Committee, a study that showed AIDS drug assistance programs are in need of help, a study on the medical value of marijuana, the closing of Food For Thought, and other local, national, and international news; obituaries; a 'Readers Forum' featuring letters from readers; a piece on cancer and lesbian health issues; theater and book reviews; calendars for upcoming cultural, religious, and sporting events; an astrology section; classified, personals, and encounters ads; and advertisements for various services., Volume 30, Number 13

Title: The Washington Blade, September 17, 1999
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on California creating a domestic partners registry; a defamation lawsuit filed by a teacher accused of recruiting homosexuals; Dupont Circle's history of being a gay neighborhood; gay activists' opposition to the Religious Liberty Protection Act of 1999; formation of a gay/straight alliance club in a Virginia high school; a grant awarded to Food and Friends for food delivery to people living with AIDS; local gay activist and political leaders opposition to Senate appropriations bill with restrictions on D.C. needle exchange and medical marijuana legislation; a legal case regarding insurance for same-sex couples in Arlington; Virginia; a protest against curfew law in D.C.; gay-friendly neighborhoods in the D.C. area; an Arizona state representative's gay rights activism; US financial assistance to African countries for AIDS epidemic; gender stereotypes affect on gay relationships; fall preview of film; television and theater. This edition also includes obituaries; listings for theater; television shows; music; books; film; dance; sports; religious services and other events; and classified advertisements and personals., Volume 30, Number 38

Title: The Washington Blade, February 8, 2002
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles about the gay community's involvement in the Salt Lake City Olympic Games and the Mormon church; the American Academy of Pediatrics' support of gay adoptions; Georgetown University's rejection of a gay student center; the Southern Baptist Convention threatening ties with a D.C. group over issues of homosexuality, abortion, and female ministers; celebration for approval of a D.C. domestic partners law; the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) closing its regional offices; a Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Social Services lawsuit for workers denied access to speech by \u201cDr. Laura\u201d Schlessinger; a Delaware senate hearing on discrimination based on sexual orientation; a lawsuit against GandL Bank; a California Supreme Court reviewing a decision on banning same-sex couples from adopting; an openly gay Rhode Island representative who dropped plans to run for secretary of state; an investigation of a gay Enron executive whose domestic partner was not protected from testifying; a rejected challenge to discrimination in Kansas' underage sex laws; hate crimes in New Orleans, Louisiana; the \u201cgay panic defense\u201d in the murder of Jimmie Ingle; a guilty plea in the murder of Ira Swearingen; the beginning of a trial for the stabbing death of Keith W. Ward; an increased federal budget allocation for AIDS-related research; openly gay Representative Barney Frank declining an Egyptian invite over the mistreatment of the gay community; Zimbabwean president Mugabe's anti-gay comments at a campaign rally; criticism of Canadian police officers as charges against Canadian all-night lesbian bathhouse were dropped; the first Delhi University college to host a gay and lesbian festival; a Slovakian debate on registering same-sex partnerships; a partnership between Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer and the Wellness Community-Baltimore; anti-gay activists' criticism of Bridgestone/Firestone advertisements towards gay consumers; and Emerson Electric's rejection of changes to their employment policy; as well as obituaries for Jamie Dating and Frank S. Vilardi; opinions on the constitutional protection of religious beliefs and homosexuality, coverage of Mike Tyson's fight and homophobia, and blame over unsafe sex and HIV infections; letters about Dupont Circle, Lammas Women's Bookstore, blame in the spread of HIV, a Badlands party, and the \u2018facelift' for the Blade newspaper; segments on health, religion, and sports; advertisements for local business, services, events, HIV drugs, trials, and support services; entertainment reviews; employment opportunities; real estate listings; and classifieds.

Title: The Washington Blade, January 31, 1986
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on the development of a case where sheriff's deputies in Montgomery County (MD) failed to transport an HIV-positive defendant to the courthouse into a controversy over whether HIV-positive defendants have a right to a public trial, cooperation between George Washington University and Whitman-Walker Clinic to continue to provide services to HIV-positive area residents, efforts by DC City Councilman John Ray to challenge health insurance representatives to provide statistics on the burden they claimed to face for AIDS care in connection with a bill designed to prohibit discrimination based on HIV status in DC, a look at the state of medical research on the connection between HIV and AIDS at a time when it was known that HIV caused AIDS but not whether all who tested positive to HIV would go on to develop AIDS in an age before anti-retrovirals, the latest move by legal activists in the Georgetown University case as Kameny identifies a clause in the DC Human Rights law which could be used to close Georgetown University if it continued to refuse recognition to gay student groups, reviews of gay interest arts and media including a biography of Marlene Dietrich, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 17, Number 5

Title: The Washington Blade, July 12, 1985
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on a narrow defeat in the American Bar Association for a resolution supporting anti-discrimination laws, news of plans from the Georgia Attorney General to appeal a Circuit Court ruling that the state's Sodomy Law was unconstitutional, an announcement by the Pentagon that the directive requiring blood bank organizations to hand over lists of donors who tested positive for HIV would be delayed in order to review the concerns of the blood collection agencies, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis' decision to push forward on a bill barring gay foster parents despite heated protests, New Right complaints over a ''pro-Lesbian'' agenda resulting in the suspension of a $625,000 grant to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, suggestions for summer events and tourist attractions in the DC metro area, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 16, Number 28

Title: The Washington Blade, March 3, 1989
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on serious gender bias in military efforts to oust gay service members with women bearing the brunt of the crackdown and a look at the role of a culture of sexual harassment in the services, the resignation of executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the exclusion of gays as a protected category in Arlington's non-discrimination law, concern over harassment of lesbian students at Mount Vernon College (DC), Ohio State University's decision to bar recruiters for the FBI over policies discriminatory to gays, analysis of AIDS and gay-related bills before the Virginia General Assembly, a bill before the D.C. City Council to raise the penalties for hate crimes, the rise of Human Rights Campaign Fund to the position of ninth largest PAC nationally, arts reviews, some recommended summer women's music festivals, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 20, Number 9

Title: The Washington Blade, May 31, 1991
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on conflict over the call to end the Miller/Marlboro boycott, the second of a two part series on gay rights bills in state legislatures, delays in changing the policy banning HIV-positive foreigners from entering the United States, a look at the discrimination faced by gay volunteers with Big Brothers of the National Capitol Area, a payout from the D.C. government after a case of employment discrimination against D.C.'s Department of Human Services over restricted access to services for HIV-positive persons, criticism of Mayor Sharon Dixon for failing to follow through on a campaign promise to establish a gay community advisory panel, a look at peer counselors trained by the Inner City AIDS Network to provide AIDS education in the black gay community, coverage of D.C.'s Black Gay Pride Day, a look at the Kitchens of Distinction singer Patrick Fitzgerald, book and arts reviews, the Gay Men's Chorus' 10th anniversary celebration, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 22, Number 22

Title: The Washington Blade, February 16, 1996
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles about the debate over same-sex marriage at the Republican National Convention and state legislatures across the country, a suspected serial killer targeting gay men in Virginia, the status of a local AIDS drug assistance program, discussions about gay issues at the Episcopal Church's annual convention, a failed attempt to reform Virginia's sodomy law, ongoing efforts in Maryland to prohibit anti-Gay discrimination, President Clinton declaring the military HIV ban unconstitutional, service provider CompuServe ending censorship of Internet sites, and the creation of the national Lesbian Political Action Committee., Volume 27, Number 7

Title: The Washington Blade, September 24, 1999
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on the passing of a medicinal marijuana initiative in D.C.; court cases and legislation using religious freedom as a basis for discrimination; the omission of data about sexuality in the annual report on youth data; results of surveys of local candidates on gay and AIDS issues; Dupont Circle shifting away from center of gay life; presidential candidates' positions on gay issues; Congressional Black Caucus calling for more AIDS funding; changes to Times Square in New York City; a linguistics conference; campaign to restore Truman Capote's house on Fire Island. This edition also includes obituaries; listings and reviews for theater; television shows; music; books; film; dance; sports; religious services and other events; and classified advertisements and personals., Volume 30, Number 39

Title: The Washington Blade, July 11, 1986
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on demonstration fueled by anger over the Supreme Court decision upholding the Georgia sodomy law on the basis of ''majority belief' that homosexual activity is 'immoral'', a confrontation at P Street Beach between eight gay men with improvised weapons and a group of black teens who attempted a homophobic assault, concerns that testing alone would not be sufficient to protect the nation's blood supply from AIDS and that it was still necessary to ask gays and other high risk groups not to donate blood, a decision by the mayor's office requiring Georgetown University to recognize its long-embattled gay student groups equally in order to proceed with street closures it requested for university construction purposes, criticism of an Attorney General's report on pornography which included non-pornographic gay publications such as news-magazine The Advocate and photographs of gay couples kissing in its lists of obscene materials, reviews of gay interest arts and media, style advice including a look at Le Corbusier, suggestions for area hiking trails and advice on hiking etiquette, an explanation of computer databases, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 17, Number 28

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