A bill to permit gay marriages in the District of Columbia will be introduced to the D.C. Council on Tuesday, At-Large Councilmember David Catania announced tonight.

Catania made the announcement in front of more than 200 members of the GLBT community gathered at the True Reformer

"We are going to do it now," he said. Catania will introduce the bill with nine co-sponsors. Also in attendance are Michael Brown, Phil Mendelson, and Tommy Wells.

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In this week's column, LL spun a scenario whereby the D.C. Council might approve a same-sex-marriage referendum. That best-case hypothetical situation for gay-marriage opponents, LL wrote, would be if "Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr., on the hot seat with an election a year off, convinces Chairman Vincent C. Gray and at-largers Michael Brown and Kwame Brown to join him, Yvette Alexander, and Marion Barry."

Not so fast! Gloria Murry Ford, a staffer for Michael Brown, called LL yesterday to protest mightily that her boss would never ever consider compromising on such a key civil-rights issue. Not even in some harebrained hypothetical scenario! Never!

Duly noted. And, it should be said that Kwame Brown is signed on as a co-sponsor of the marriage bill, and Gray is not only a co-sponsor, but offered strongly pro-marriage-equality comments in a Washington Times interview earlier this week.

So that leaves Alexander, Barry, and Thomas.

Read More "Michael Brown Stands for Gay Marriage; Yvette Alexander Does Not" »

In which we speak with a man named Willie Mays (!) about credible change and Michael Brown's lackluster performance at air hockey.

Among other things.

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In which we speak with ANC 1C-03 Commissioner Bryan Weaver about Michael Brown's basketball skills, David Schwartzman's uncanny resemblance to Walt Whitman, and the Sarah Palin Disney Movie.

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* The Washington Post on the search for a Fairfax police officer who went missing in the waters of Pohick Bay on Tuesday. Second Lieutenant Francis J. Stecco "had volunteered to play the role of a "victim" during a training session for a helicopter water rescue, though he was not a member of the dive team."

* Attention Adobe Photoshop Elements 7: Do not fuck with Mr. T in D.C.

* Frozen Tropics updates you on recent homicide arrests North of Capitol Hill.

* Hookupmaps charts craigslist casual encounters on google maps. Logan Circle is bumpin'!

* And in this newspaper:

- Jason Cherkis on D.C.'s greatest unknown music legend, Mingering Mike. Check out Mike's special introduction and the making of a love-song collaboration between Jason and Mike.

- Mixtec's new Mexican-Italian take-out gets the Tim Carman treatment.

- Dave McKenna on why high-school homecoming is for nerds.

- In Loose Lips, at-large council candidate Michael Brown robo-calls the wrong guy.

- Why the death of Tony Hunter's remains "unofficial."

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