Please join Lambda for a movie night at Elizabeth's house (1015 E St SE - a stone's throw from the Eastern Market metro). Come over around 6:30pm and relax before easing back into the work week. Free snacks and beverages! RSVP on Facebook here, or email Elizabeth directly at eedwards@law.gwu.edu.

We'd like to think they heard us! Senator John Kerry and 17 other senators authored a letter yesterday to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg calling for an end to the ban. Kerry also wrote an op-ed in the Bay Windows, a New England-based LGBT newspaper. Great progress!

Lambda would like to congratulate any and all who were able to take part in marriage equality in DC this week. This is truly incredible progress for gay rights nationwide, and particularly in DC -- consider that as recently as the mid-90s, sodomy was still a crime in D.C.

With the advent of marriage equality in D.C. and with many GW students living in Virginia, many of us were reminded of Loving v. Virginia, and specifically a letter that Mildred Loving wrote one year before she died. We've reprinted an excerpt below but encourage you to read the short letter in its entirety:

"When my late husband, Richard, and I got married in Washington, DC in 1958, it wasn't to make a political statement or start a fight. We were in love, and we wanted to be married. We didn't get married in Washington because we wanted to marry there. We did it there because the government wouldn't allow us to marry back home in Virginia . . . . I am still not a political person, but I am proud that Richard's and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, black or white, young or old, gay or straight seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That's what Loving, and loving, are all about."