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Andronoco joins Dept. of Energy’s loan program office

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Troy Cline, gay news, Washington Blade
The 'Comings & Goings' column chronicles important life changes of Blade readers.

The Comings & Goings column is about sharing the professional successes of our community. We want to recognize those landing new jobs, new clients for their business, joining boards of organizations and other achievements. Please share your successes with us at: [email protected].

The Comings & Goings column also invites LGBTQ+ college students to share their successes with us. If you have been elected to a student government position, gotten an exciting internship, or are graduating and beginning your career with a great job, let us know so we can share your success.

Joe Adronoco

Congratulations to Joseph L. Andronaco on his new position as Senior Advisor, Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office. Andronaco is an accomplished and experienced multi-industry (energy efficiency, sustainability, utilities, investment banking) and international leader (fully bilingual) with a proven talent for strategic thinking and operational excellence and capable of leveraging the expertise gained from engaging in more than $3B of financial and strategic transactions into impactful and transformational decision making. Upon taking the position Andronaco said, “I am thrilled to be working alongside such talented individuals to meet our climate and environmental justice imperatives.”

Andronaco’s background includes being CEO and Subject Matter Expert, Access Green; Corporate Development and Strategy, WGL Holdings; Corporate Development with NAPWA; Services and Investment Banker, Buenos Aires Capital Partners; and Banking Analyst, Lehman Brothers. He has served as a member Workforce Investment Council, District of Columbia; and on the Boards of DCBIA Community Services; DC Central Kitchen; and the DC Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Association of Builders and Contractors and the National Association of the Remodeling Industry.

Andronaco earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his master’s from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business.

Congratulations also to Waymon Hudson on his new position as Marketing Director, Communication Services for the Deaf (CSD). Hudson will be responsible for the global promotion of the CSD Contact Centers (CCC) brand and its portfolio of programs. He will be supporting the CCC leadership team in the planning, coordination and implementation of campaigns and other programmatic marketing efforts, building broad coalitions of community partners working together to overcome national community challenges. Upon taking the position Hudson said, “Communication Service for the Deaf creates opportunities for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community across a wide range of areas. As a Deaf person myself, I am beyond excited to be a part of that mission. I truly feel that Deaf identities and culture should be valued and celebrated as part of the diversity that makes our country stronger.”

Hudson has worked as a copywriter for the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes and also has his own firm, Waymon Hudson Consulting, where he does marketing and communication and political consulting. His experience includes working as director of marketing and communications for the Golden Gate University School of Law; and president of Fight OUT Loud. Hudson has been a featured columnist with the Huffington Post and Chicago Tribune; and host and executive producer of Gay TV on The Go. He has worked with The Bilerico Project, the Trevor Project and was a JetBlue Airways, Inflight Crew Trainer and a performer at Walt Disney World.

Hudson earned his bachelor’s in business management with a concentration in marketing from Golden Gate University, San Francisco.

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District of Columbia

Norton reintroduces bill to ban discrimination against LGBTQ jurors in D.C. Superior Court

Congresswoman notes Congress controls local court system

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D.C. Congressional Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)

D.C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) on Friday, June 20, reintroduced her bill to ban discrimination against LGBTQ D.C. residents in the process for selecting people to serve as jurors in D.C. Superior Court.

“The bill would clarify that D.C. residents may not be excluded or disqualified from jury service in the local D.C. trial court, the D.C. Superior Court, based on sexual orientation or gender identity,” Norton said in a statement.

“Specifically, this bill would clarify that the term ‘sex,’ which is a protected class under the nondiscrimination law that applies to jurors in the D.C. Superior Court includes sexual orientation and gender identity,” Norton said.

She points out in her statement that under the D.C. Home Rule Act approved by Congress that created D.C.’s local government, including an elected mayor and City Council, the federal government retained control over the local court system.

“Therefore, until D.C. is given authority to amend Title 11 of the D.C. Code, which one of my bills would do, an act of Congress is required to clarify that LGBTQ+ jurors in the D.C. Superior Court are protected from discrimination,” according to her statement.

A spokesperson for Norton couldn’t immediately be reached to determine whether Norton is aware of specific instances where residents were denied jury service because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.  

Online records of congressional action on Norton’s juror nondiscrimination bill show she had introduced it in 2019, 2021, and 2023, when it died in committee each year, except for the 117th Congress in 2022, when it was approved by a committee but died in the full House.

“During Pride month we are reminded of the many contributions of the LGBTQ+ community,” Norton said in her June 20 statement. “Nobody, including D.C. jurors, should be discriminated against based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, and D.C. juries should not be deprived of the service of LGBTQ residents,” she added.

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PHOTOS: Pride on the Pier

Blade’s WorldPride celebration ends with fireworks show

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The Washington Blade's Pride on the Pier. (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)

The Washington Blade’s second day of Pride on the Pier at The Wharf DC ended with a fireworks show on Saturday, June 7. The fireworks show was presented by the Leonard-Litz LGBTQ Foundation.

(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)

The Washington Blade’s Pride on the Pier (Photo by Cedric Craig for Wild Side Media)
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Virginia

Hashmi to face Reid in Va. LG race

State senator won Democratic primary on Tuesday

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Ghazala Hashmi (Screen capture via One Vote At A Time/YouTube)

State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi (D-Chesterfield) will face John Reid in the race to become Virginia’s next lieutenant governor. 

Hashmi won the Democratic primary with 27.49 percent of the vote. She defeated former Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney, state Sen. Aaron Rouse (D-Virginia Beach), Babur Lateef, Victor Salgado and Alexander Bastani.

“Tonight, Virginians made history,” said Hashmi in a statement. “We didn’t just win a primary, we sent a clear message that we won’t be bullied, broken, or dragged backward by the chaos in Washington.”

Reid, a gay conservative talk show host, in April won the Republican nomination to succeed Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, who is running to succeed Gov. Glenn Youngkin. 

The incumbent governor days after Reid secured the nomination called for him to withdraw his candidacy amid reports that a social media account with his username included “pornographic content.” Reid, who would become the first openly gay person elected to statewide office in Virginia if he wins in November, has strongly denied the reports.

Former state Del. Jay Jones defeated Henrico County Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon Taylor in Democratic attorney general primary. Jones will face Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares in November.

Youngkin cannot run for a second, consecutive term.

Former Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger will face off against Earle-Sears in November. The winner will make history as the first woman elected governor in the state’s history.

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