An editorial in the Washington Blade compared the scruffy, violent activism during and following the Stonewall riots to the lackluster response to failed promises given by President Obama ; for being ignored, wealthy LGBT activists reacted by promising to give less money to Democratic causes.

The Washington Blade is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) newspaper in the Washington, D. C. metropolitan area.

Collage of historical covers of the Washington Blade showing the evolution of the size, format, and publication name from its early years to the present.

( From top to bottom: the December 1977 cover of ' The Blade ,' the April 1973 cover of ' The Gay Blade ,' the cover of the 1993 March on Washington Special Edition of the ' Washington Blade ,' the April 23, 1993 cover of the ' Washington Blade ,' the June 27, 2003 cover of the ' Washington Blade ,' and the September 1974 cover of ' The Gay Blade.

The show included entertainers such as Frankie Lymon, The Supremes, Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Pearl Bailey, LaVern Baker, Harry Belafonte, James Brown, Godfrey Cambridge, Diahann Carroll, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Bill Cosby, Count Basie, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bo Diddley, Rocío Dúrcal, Duke Ellington, Lola Falana, The 5th Dimension, Ella Fitzgerald, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Dick Gregory, W. C. Handy, Lena Horne, The Jackson 5, Mahalia Jackson, Eartha Kitt, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Moms Mabley, Johnny Mathis, The Miracles ( later known as Smokey Robinson & the Miracles ), Melba Moore, The Platters, Leontyne Price, Richard Pryor, Lou Rawls, Della Reese, Nipsey Russell, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, The Temptations, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Tina Turner ( at the time known as " The Ike & Tina Turner Revue "), Leslie Uggams, William Warfield, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Flip Wilson, Jackie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, and Stevie Wonder.

Like the other " backsliders " and all the artists who preferred a secular acclaim to the gospel obscurity ", like Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Lou Rawls, Dinah Washington, Napoleon " Nappy " Brown, Ike and Tina Turner, Brook Benton, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Louis Armstrong, Burke recorded an album of gospel songs, " not to be ' saved ' or under any pressure but for their own pleasure and as a tribute to their roots, because, as kids, all of them, like all black children, had sung in church.

* The song " Halloween Parade " by Lou Reed mentions " a crack team from Washington Heights "

Courage Under Fire is a 1996 film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips and Matt Damon.

* Lou B. Washington as Otis

In 2008 Cindy Lou Romberg of Port Angeles, Washington, who had suffered a brain injury 17 years earlier, developed foreign accent syndrome after a neck adjustment from her chiropractor.

The museum ’ s project architects are Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects Ltd. of Seattle and SmithGroup of Washington, D. C., in association with Lou Weller ( Caddo ), the Native American Design Collaborative, and Polshek Partnership Architects of New York City ; Ramona Sakiestewa ( Hopi ) and Donna House ( Navajo / Oneida ) also served as design consultants.

Wilbur's wife, the former Marguerite May Blake, was a college friend of Hoover's wife, and was one of Lou Hoover's closest friends in Washington during Mrs. Hoover's years as First Lady.

* Lou Cannon for the Washington Post and National Journal

2011 Hempfest speakers included numerous elected officials, among them Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, City Attorney Pete Holmes, a return by Councilman Licata, and Washington State Representatives Mary Lou Dickerson and Roger Goodman.

a homebuilder and remodeler and wife Lou, a political science teacher had closer local ties in the district, as Ward had been in Washington DC for decades.

Sweet Honey in the Rock, the Washington DC-based African American female a cappella singing group, wrote and recorded a song called " Fannie Lou Hamer.

O ' Grady was born in Brooklyn, New York, a son of William P. O ' Grady and Mary Lou Scardapane ( née Giustra, remarried ), and graduated from Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane, Washington.

Lou Whittaker ( born in Seattle, Washington on February 10, 1929 ) is a mountaineer and glacier-travel guide.

Parisse was born in Anchorage, Alaska, the daughter of Louis G. " Lou " Cancelmi and wife Annette, and grew up in Mercer Island, King County, Washington, where she attended Mercer Island High School.

During the meeting, held at the Bureau of Public Roads offices in Washington, D. C. on April 20, 1925, board member Lou A. Boulay of Ohio was credited with suggesting the use of a shield, inspired by that on the Great Seal of the United States, with the letters " U. S. A ." and the route number as a route marker.

Her TV appearances include Lou Dobbs Tonight, The O ' Reilly Factor, Hannity and Colmes, Washington Journal, Donahue, Good Morning America, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Ed Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation TV news discussion program counterSpin ( not to be confused with the FAIR show of the same name ).

Lou Guzzo is a former journalist, author, and television commentator in Seattle, Washington.

* Lou Cannon of the Washington Post published the first description of President Reagan as " The Great Communicator ".

He grew up in Auburn, Washington and graduated from Garfield Senior High School in Seattle.

By the time the increasingly complicated committee structure was settled, Kissinger chaired six NSC-related committees: the Senior Review Group ( non-crisis, non-arms control matters ), the Washington Special Actions Group ( serious crises ), the Verification Panel ( arms control negotiations ), the 40 Committee ( clandestine operations ), the Intelligence Committee ( policy for the intelligence community ), and the Defense Program Review Committee ( relation of the defense budget to foreign policy aims ).

1927-The new Bedford Senior High School opens at the corner of Washington Street and Columbus Street to accommodate a growing student body.

Washington, D. C .' s Columbia Heights ( Washington, D. C .) | Columbia Heights where Marvin Gaye attended Cardozo Senior High School | Cardozo High School and not too far from the Deanwood neighborhood where Marvin grew up.

* Mark Dever, Senior Pastor of the Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D. C.

Born in Cle Elum, Washington to Francis William Scobee and Edlynn ( Miller ) Scobee, Scobee attended Auburn Senior High School, Cascade Middle School, and Washington Elementary in Auburn, Washington.

Returning to Washington, D. C. in 1994, he became the Chief of the Senior Level Division in CDA.

He was also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Resource Systems Institute ( 1982 ), and Visiting Research Fellow at the World Bank, Washington DC ( 1990 ).

Notable secondary schools and school districts include Franklin High School ( Stockton, CA ), Kingfisher High School ( Kingfisher Oklahoma ), Alvin High School ( Alvin, TX ) Sprayberry High School ( Marietta, Georgia ), Thomas County Central High School, ( Thomasville, GA ), Xavier University Preparatory High School ( New Orleans, Louisiana ), Berkeley High School ( Berkeley, California ), Freeport Area School District ( Sarver, Pennsylvania ), Ferndale Area High School ( Johnstown, Pennsylvania ), Llano High, Junior High, Elementary, and Packsaddle Elementary Schools ( Llano County Texas ), Cleburne High School ( Cleburne, Texas ), Mount Vernon High School ( Mount Vernon, Ohio ), Newark High School ( Newark, Delaware ), Osbourn Park High School ( Manassas, Virginia ), James Monroe High School ( Fredericksburg, VA ), Roane County High School ( Kingston, TN ), Sabinal School District ( Sabinal, Texas ), Perrysburg High School ( Perrysburg, Ohio ), Sidney High School ( Sidney, Ohio ), Girard High School ( Girard, Pennsylvania ), Vincent High School ( Vincent, Alabama ), McAdory High School ( McCalla, Alabama ), Thomas Jefferson High School ( Council Bluffs, Iowa ), Irmo Middle School, Irmo High School ( Irmo, South Carolina ) and Oxnard High School ( Oxnard, California ), Saint Augustine High School ( Saint John's County FLA ), Lee County Senior High School ( Sanford, NC ), Palo Verde Valley High School ( Blythe, California ), George Washington Carver High School ( Winston-Salem, North Carolina ) Northampton High School ( Eastville, Virginia ), Coffee High School ( Florence, Alabama ), Blue Ridge High School ( Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona ), Sheridan School District ( Sheridan, Arkansas ), Oneonta High School ( Oneonta, New York ), Gwynn Park High School ( Brandywine, Maryland ), Ithaca High School ( Ithaca, Michigan ), Starkville High School ( Starkville, Mississippi ), Detroit Country Day School ( Beverly Hills, Michigan ), Woodford County High School ( Versailles, KY ), Oakleaf Junior High ( Orange Park, FL ), and Spencer Middle School ( Spencer, WV ).

After growing up in Baltimore and graduating from Forest Park Senior High School, Levinson attended Baltimore City Community College, and American University in Washington, D. C. at the American University School of Communication, before moving to Los Angeles to work as an actor and writer.

After his retirement, Senator Campbell was a Senior Policy Advisor at the firm of Holland and Knight, LLP in Washington, DC.

North is currently teaching at Washington University in St. Louis and is the Bartlett Burnap Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

On March 10, 1973, seventeen months before Nixon's resignation, Colson resigned from the White House to return to the private practice of law, as Senior Partner at the law firm of Colson and Shapiro, Washington, D. C.

In 2008, Luttwak became a Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D. C.

After leaving his position as Chief of Staff, Ya ' alon has spent time in the think tank Washington Institute for Near East Policy and became a Senior Fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center Institute for International and Middle East Studies.

In 1965, Stephens left KTHV, Channel 11 in Little Rock at the invitation of Senior U. S. Senator John McClellan in Washington D. C., to join his staff as Special Assistant in charge of media relations.

Previously, Kelly served at the White House in Washington, DC as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to President Ronald Reagan, and as Senior Director for Asian Affairs, National Security Council, from March 1986 to March 1989.

Walker is currently a Senior Manager of Space Programs Business Development and Marketing with the Washington D. C. Operations office of The Boeing Company.

Maurice, or Sonny as he was called at Cardozo Senior High School, first showed up as an All City Pitcher in the local Washington Daily News.

In 2009, Wills was honored by the city of Washington, D. C. and Cardozo Senior High School with the naming of the former Banneker Recreation Field in his honor.