Metro Weekly: LGBT Activists Reject Marion Barry, Yvette Alexander

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Incumbent Councilmembers Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) and Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7) lost big at a Feb. 23 meeting of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, earning only 7.8 percent and 2.6 percent, respectively, of the votes of active club members present. The Stein Club for LGBT Democrats is among the most influential Democratic clubs in the District. The Feb. 23 endorsement meeting, one in a series ahead of the April 3 primaries, was seen by many in attendance as a rejection of the two incumbent councilmembers for their weak records on LGBT issues.

Alexander and Barry were the only two of the 13-member council to vote against marriage equality, and Barry was the sole vote against recognizing out-of-state same-sex civil marriages.

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