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  • Focus on Homophobia

    By on September 9, 2009

    ''People should come expecting some solutions,'' Sampson McCormick says of the upcoming ''Town Hall on Homophobia in the Black Community.'' ''They should come expecting to...

  • Coalition Coalescing

    By on August 26, 2009

    ''Who speaks for the black LGBT community?'' That was the question around which a recent ''community conversation'' centered. ''Why don't we act like family? Why...

  • DC Coalition Stirring

    By on July 22, 2009

    When it comes to cities known for vibrant, black-GLBT communities, D.C. routinely sits in the upper tier. DC Black Pride, for example, is the world's...

  • Problem Solver

    By on April 16, 2008

    Brian Watson likes to fix things. But a decade before making Washington his home and establishing himself as one of the city's most prominent young...

  • Pulse of the People

    By on May 3, 2006

    Ranging from alarm to hope, a panel of D.C.'s black gay leaders strove to outline what they saw as the state of their community as...

  • D.C. Coalition, Inc.

    By on June 8, 2005

    ORGANIZATIONAL MISSION: Founded in 1978, the D.C. Coalition seeks to abolish discrimination against, and build a strong political and economic base for the black LGBT...

  • The Queen Mother's Farewell

    By on February 18, 2004

    It was years ago at Nob Hill, listening to all the gay guys calling themselves queens that Carlene Cheatam first used the title she most...