Forty-five years after it was founded in January 1976, members of D.C.’s Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the city’s largest local LGBTQ political group, voted in a Zoom meeting on Feb.
8 to change its name to the Capital Stonewall Democrats. The vote came seven months after the club’s members came to a consensus at their July 2020 virtual meeting that the name should be changed and formed an ad hoc committee to propose a selection of new names.
Among the reasons some members gave for changing the name was that some historians have reported that Gertrude Stein, an American ex-patriot writer and artist living in France beginning in the early 1920s and who was widely known as a lesbian “married” to her lover Alice B.