A  local auctioneer company has announced a large collection of artwork and other eclectic property from the estate of D.C. LGBTQ rights advocate Bernie Delia will be available for purchase in an auction scheduled for Sept. 12 in Chevy Chase, Md.

Delia, who was a founding member of the Capital Pride Alliance, the group that organizes most of D.C.’s LGBTQ Pride events, and who served as co-chair of World Pride 2025, which D.C. will be hosting in 2025, died unexpectedly of natural causes on June 21.

Sloans & Kenyon Auctioneers and Appraisers says in its announcement that the items to be offered through the auction include “a large and eclectic assortment of fine art and sculpture, silver, English and Continental porcelain and other decorative arts, political memorabilia and entertainment ephemera, and various other antique and vintage items.”

The announcement says the items for sale in the Sept. 12 Estate Catalogue Auction will be on display at the Sloans & Kenyon gallery from Saturday, Sept. 7 through Wednesday, Sept. 11. The gallery where the items will be available for viewing and where the auction will be held on Sept. 12 is located at 5550 Friendship Blvd., Suite T60, in Chevy Chase, Md.

“The September auction includes over 200 lots from Bernie’s vast collection and is the first of several auctions of property from his estate,” the announcement says. “Absentee, telephone and internet bids will be accepted for the September 12 Eastgate Catalogue Auction,” it says.

Dignity Washington, the LGBTQ Catholic organization for which Delia served as president, is holding a memorial service for Delia on Saturday, Sept. 28, at 1:30 p.m. at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church near Dupont Circle, according to Dignity member David Lamdin.

Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears on Thursday announced she will run to succeed Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin in 2025.

“I could have never believed growing up that I could be asking Virginians for their faith and confidence in me to serve them as governor of our great commonwealth,” the Republican said in her announcement, according to the Washington Post. “Yes, this is an opportunity to make history, but our campaign is about making life better for every Virginian right here, right now.”

Earle-Sears, a former U.S. Marine who served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2002-2004, in 2021 became the first woman elected Virginia’s lieutenant governor. Youngkin and Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares also won their respective races that year.

Activists have criticized Earle-Sears for her opposition to LGBTQ rights in Virginia.

Earle-Sears in 2023 spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md. She sparked criticism in February when she misgendered state Sen. Danica Roem (D-Manassas) on the Virginia Senate floor.

Roem in 2018 became the first transgender person seated in a state legislature in the country when she assumed her seat in the House of Delegates. Voters in the 30th Senate District last November elected Roem to the state Senate, thus becoming the first trans person to be seated in the chamber.

The Washington Post reported Miyares is likely to run against Earle-Sears in the Republican primary. The winner would likely face U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.), who is the only Democrat who has thus far declared themselves a gubernatorial candidate.

Earle-Sears would become Virginia’s first female governor if she wins. She would also become the first Black woman elected governor of any state.

The Washington Commanders football team this week fired one of its executives, who made remarks that were recorded without his knowledge by an undercover news reporter claiming the team’s Black players were “homophobic” and that some National Football League players were “dumb as hell.”

Multiple news media outlets, including the Washington Post and the LGBTQ sports publication Out Sports, identified the executive as Rael Enteen, who held the title of Vice President of Content for the Commanders organization.

The publication The Athletic reports that Enteen was secretly recorded with a hidden video camera by a female reporter for the O’Keefe Media Group during two dates in which the reporter did not disclose she was with the media.

Among his recorded comments, The Athletic and other media outlets have reported, is he told the reporter  that some National Football League players, including Black players, were dumb and homophobic.

“A big chunk [of the Commanders roster] is very low-income African American that comes from a community that is inherently very homophobic,” the Daily Mail reports Enteen as saying in the recording. “I love hip-hop, hip-hop is very homophobic,” he reportedly stated in the video. “It’s a cultural thing that I hope gets better.”

Enteen also called NFL fans “high school-educated alcoholics” and “mouth breathers,” the Associated Press reports.

The AP also reports that Enteen states in the video recording that Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys football team, “hates gay people and Black people.” The AP says the Cowboys team did not respond to a request for comment.

According to the AP, a Washington Commanders spokesperson said in response to being asked about the decision to fire Enteen, “The language used in the video runs counter to our values at the Commanders organization.”