Washington blade best of gay dc 2017
Former NBC4 news anchor Jim Vance wins the Washington Blade’s Best of Homosexual D.C. Award for best local television personality.
"The NBC4 news anchor became entrenched in D.C. society just as much as 'the Godfather of Go-Go' Chuck Brown, former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry and radio DJ Russ Parr, who all join Vance on Ben’s Chili Bowl mural wall," the Blade wrote.
Vance, 75, who died from cancer in July, worked at NBC4 for more than 40 years. He started reporting for WRC-TV in 1969 and moved to the anchor desk in 1972. Vance covered stories from the attempted assassination of former President Ronald Reagan to the 1977 Hanafi Siege and 9/11.
During his journalism career, Vance earned several local Emmy awards, the Board of Governor’s Award and was inducted into the National Association of Dark Journalists Hall of Fame in 2007.
Before Channel 4, Vance was a correspondent for the Philadelphia Independent newspaper and WHAT-AM radio station.
As the region’s longest-serving television news anchor, Vance’s face was added to the mural alongside Ben’s Chili Bowl in June.
About 3,5000 nominations and 20,000 votes were cast in 100 categories for the 16th annual Best of Male lover D.C. Awards. Categori
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October 1st, 1969 to December 26th, 2008
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The Washington Blade has been Washington, D.C.'s principal lesbian, gay, pansexual and transgender (LGBT) newspaper since its first issue in October 1969. It began as a monthly news sheet and a replacement for the Mattachine Society of Washington's newsletter of the 1950s and early 1960s. The Blade quickly grew, adding images and additional pages, and expanding its run to twice a month, and then weekly. The Blade covered current events from an LGBT perspective as well as LGBT existence in D.C. and the social and political progress of the gay rights movement. The paper's mention has evolved over the years from its imaginative, The Gay Blade, a 1960s slang term for a gay man: 'In the Victorian era, the phrase 'gay blade' meant a dashing and charming swordsman. By the initial 20th Century, the statement had com
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Gay Activism in Washington, D.C.
In May 1971, the Shoreham Hotel’s Regency Ballroom was invaded by activists from the Mattachine Society of Washington (MSW), the Gay Liberation Front-DC, and the fledgling Lgbtq+ Activists Alliance/DC. The activists disrupted Attorney General Ramsey Clark’s address to the annual convocation of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), protesting the APA’s classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder. Two and a half years later, the APA “cured” the nation’s homosexuals by removing homosexuality from its inventory of mental illnesses, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.
Washington, D.C., has been central to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (LGBTQ) demands for civil rights. MSW’s aggressive pressure for queer civil rights launched unprecedented campaigns against federally sanctioned discrimination in the civil service and the military. Local activists picketed for civil rights, created a dialogue with clergy on the status of homosexuals, pressed for repeal of sodomy laws, and created regional and national homophile organizations. During the
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Capital Pride Celebration Voted Top LGBT Event in the Best of Gay DC Awards
Thank you very much to the readers of the Washington Blade for voting the Capital Celebration Celebration as the Optimal LGBT Event in the Best of Gay DC awards this year.
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