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  • MPD Reports Reveal More Anti-LGBT Attacks

    By on March 19, 2012

    As seasonal temperatures rise, attacks with some indication of anti-LGBT bias are also apparently increasing. A shooting at a Columbia Heights IHOP Restaurant and a...

  • New Attacks Alarm D.C.

    By on March 15, 2012

    Concerned members of the LGBT community have announced plans for a silent march and a fundraiser in the wake of two anti-gay attacks earlier this...

  • Trans Group Decries DC Police Chief for “Abdicating” Responsibilities, But Lanier Shoots Back

    By on February 29, 2012

    A local organization today accused Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier of “abdicating” her responsibility to keep transgender people safe, but Lanier retorted that the...

  • Suspect Makes Court Appearance in Jones Killing

    By on February 13, 2012

    D.C. Superior Court Judge Juliet J. McKenna on Saturday, Feb. 11, ordered that Gary Niles Montgomery, 55, of Northeast D.C., be held without bond as...

  • Suspect Arrested in Deoni Jones Stabbing

    By on February 11, 2012

    The Metropolitan Police Department announced Friday evening that they have arrested a suspect who is accused of fatally stabbing 23-year-old transgender woman Deoni Jones, also...

  • Remembering Deoni Jones

    By on February 8, 2012

    About 200 people gathered Tuesday evening at the intersection of East Capitol Street and Sycamore Road NE in the city's Benning Heights neighborhood for a...

  • Transgender Woman Killed [UPDATED]

    By on February 3, 2012

    The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the death of a transgender woman who was stabbed yesterday at a bus stop in the District's Benning Heights...

  • DCTC's Chief Problem

    By on January 25, 2012

    The words rolled off her tongue like a well-rehearsed mantra, ''We'd like to see all of those folks who are in that high-risk environment find...

  • Revisiting Violence

    By on December 22, 2011

    At year's end, the local LGBT community is recovering from a year of violent attacks directed at LGBT individuals, particularly transgender women of color. Beginning...

  • Furr Update

    By on December 22, 2011

    The U.S. government's case against Kenneth Furr, the Metropolitan Police Department officer who allegedly shot at a group of five people in a car, including...

  • Transgender Woman Stabbed

    By on December 21, 2011

    A 56-year-old transgender woman was stabbed while at a house in Northeast D.C.'s Kingman Park neighborhood at around 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20, marking the...

  • Willard Sentenced to Eight Years

    By on December 8, 2011

    The man who pleaded guilty to shooting a transgender woman in the neck and trying to rob her after she refused his request for oral...

  • Furr Likely To Get Plea Deal

    By on November 4, 2011

    Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Worm told D.C. Superior Court Judge Ann O'Regan Keary at a felony status hearing Nov. 4 that the government is close...

  • Activists Voice Crime Concerns

    By on October 6, 2011

    Representatives from the District's various public safety agencies and the Mayor's Office of GLBT Affairs held an outreach meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 28, aimed at...

  • Shooter Pleads Guilty

    By on October 3, 2011

    A man who shot a transgender woman in the neck and attempted to rob her after she declined his sexual proposition pleaded guilty Thursday, Sept....