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  • Questions on Crime

    By on July 3, 2012

    Members of the D.C. City Council chastised the Metropolitan Police Department for a perceived failure to effectively engage local community members on initiatives aimed at...

  • 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...

  • GLOV To Present Awards

    By on December 1, 2011

    Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV), the District's primary LGBT anti-violence task force, will host a community social and fundraiser at the Duplex Diner 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....

  • Officer Arrested

    By on September 1, 2011

    The off-duty Metropolitan Police Department officer, Kenneth Furr, who allegedly shot two transgender women seated in a car early Friday, Aug. 26, at First and...

  • Confronting Biased Policing

    By on August 17, 2011

    Police reformers should never be confused with police opponents. Reformers seek changes in policies and procedures, accountability for misconduct, and community-based policing that is about...

  • Police Chief Lanier Meets With LGBT Leaders to Address Community Concerns

    By on August 16, 2011

    In an effort to reach out to LGBT organization leaders who have expressed concerns about safety and police decisions in recent months, Metropolitan Police Department...

  • Sit Down with the Chief

    By on August 16, 2011

    Leaders from local LGBT organizations sat with Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier for nearly two hours on Aug. 16, in closed-door meeting at which...

  • GLOV Trainings Grow

    By on July 27, 2011

    Joe Montoni and Kelly Pickard stepped up in the community as co-chairs of Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence in January 2010. Hassan Naveed and A.J....

  • Critical Mass

    By on July 6, 2011

    Community members expressed frustration earlier today during the third hate crime oversight hearing within the past four years. Councilmember Phil Mendelson (D-At large), chair of...

  • Hannah Arrested, Again

    By on July 1, 2011

    ''I'm going to kill her when I get out.'' Those were the words of Robert Hannah on June 19, according to a Metropolitan Police Department...

  • Holcomb Gets 50 years

    By on June 30, 2011

    A D.C. Superior Court judge sentenced Antwan Holcomb, 21, to 50 years behind bars for the first-degree murder of Anthony Perkins, a gay D.C. resident,...

  • Sentencing in Gay Homicide

    By on May 24, 2011

    ''I can't sleep at night. All I see is my brother's face.'' Those were the words of Tiffany Massey, a D.C. lesbian, telling the court...

  • GLOV's New Leadership

    By on February 11, 2011

    A.J. Singletary was walking home from a friend's house, near 14th Street and Florida Avenue Northwest, on a mid-January evening when he was assaulted by...

  • Anti-gay Assault

    By on November 12, 2010

    When Aram Vartian hugged his friend Tom Goss goodbye on Wednesday night and saw Goss drive away, he expected to just make the short walk...