Metro Weekly

All posts tagged "hate crimes"

  • Revisiting Violence

    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...

  • Mendelson Fields Testimony

    Longstanding tensions and the often rocky working relationships between LGBT activists and members of the Metropolitan Police Department were once more highlighted during a three-hour...

  • Barack Obama's speech at HRC's National Dinner 2011 [video]

    On Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011, President Barack Obama addressed the 15th annual Human Rights Campaign national dinner. In addition to touting the administration's accomplishments --...

  • Campus Hate Crime

    A George Washington University senior has been charged with a hate crime for an assault on a fellow student early Sunday, March 6, according to...

  • Hate Crime Conviction

    ''They don't lock you up for hitting faggots.'' Those are the words the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia (USAO-DC) say 42-year-old...

  • Four Months for Menace

    The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia announced April 7 that a Virginia man has been sentenced to 120 days in jail for...

  • Transgender Women Assaulted

    The Metropolitan Police Department arrested a man suspected of assaulting two transgender individuals, also described as members of the Latino LGBT community, shortly after the...

  • Bashing Via Blog

    As marriage equality takes greater hold in America, it's no surprise that gay couples are showing up in marriage-license lines or gazing over wedding bands...

  • Juvenile Charged in Southeast Murder

    An arrest has been made in connection with the January murder of Gordon Rivers. ''On the afternoon of Thursday, January 28, 2010, a 17-year-old male...

  • Unpacking the Numbers

    As a survivor of violence and a lesbian trans woman in a world that treats my identity as delusional or deceptive, I understand fear. I...

  • Law of the Land

    Saying ''no one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hands of the person they love,'' President Obama on...

  • Hate Crimes bill passes Senate

    Suddenly, with little fanfare or notice, the signs of ''change'' for the LGBT community are beginning to appear in Washington. The Obama administration this week...

  • Remembering Tel Aviv

    In the wake of a brutal attack on an Israeli GLBT community center, local GLBT and Jewish community members will be holding a vigil tonight,...

  • Attacker Sentenced

    Judge Harold L. Cushenberry Jr. on Feb. 6 sentenced Ruddad Abdulgader, originally from Sudan, to 30 months incarceration for participating in a bias-related hate crime...

  • Attacker Sentenced

    Judge Harold L. Cushenberry Jr. on Feb. 6 sentenced Ruddad Abdulgader, originally from Sudan, to 30 months incarceration for participating in a bias-related hate crime...