While recently speaking to someone who lives in D.C., I was told that Columbia Heights, the neighborhood in which I lived for many years, is...
I knew there was trouble when she told me to have a seat in her office and shut the door behind me. We never talk...
With the building of one convention center and the demolition of another, not to mention the continuing rise of commercial real-estate values in the revitalized...
It was 98 degrees in New York today, one of the hottest days we've had all year. Several businesses have been distributing donated bottled water...
The stretch of 17th Street -- roughly between P and R streets NW -- is one of the district's foremost gay villages. It hosts the...
This wasn't supposed to happen. Well, it was supposed to happen, really -- I never hoped to not make it to 35. But as far...
As the saying goes, if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. But when...
The big picture is a family portrait. It's a picture of the African-American community coming together to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Million Man...
Following the recent celebration of our 30th Capital Pride, it's worth reflecting how far we've come and at what cost. In 1975, ''gay liberation'' activists...
To bolster the nearly 30-year-old D.C. Human Rights Act's protections for transgender people in the district, council members Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) and Vincent Orange...
This time last year, LLEGÓ was suffering ill health. That this organization -- the sole national organization representing the LGBT Latino/a community exclusively -- would...
Let's say you are 18, almost 19, living by yourself for the first time. You're doing an internship in a small Ohio town and you...
I'm on an Amtrak train heading north from New York City to Boston, and normally I'd feel guilty about spending the extra money for an...
As part of an ongoing effort to achieve fiscal stability, the Whitman-Walker Clinic has announced a new $25 fee for all clients of the Gay...
This year's annual Capital Pride Parade was a larger event than in the past, with an extended route that stretched from the far edge of...