All posts tagged "hips"
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How Vending Machines Can Save Lives in Substance Abuse Crisis
“Harm reduction” vending machines, offering everything from naloxone to condoms, have begun popping up in Washington, D.C.
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Local nonprofits saddened by news that BHT Foundation will shut down
Local nonprofit organizations say they're saddened that the BHT Foundation will dissolve, eliminating a source of funding for groups in need.
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Capital Pride, The DC Center, and other LGBTQ orgs to hold educational forum on defunding police
June 15 event will explain how "defund" strategy works and offer advice on responding to D.C.'s proposed funding increase for MPD
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HIPS holds volunteer orientation for supporting sex workers and other vulnerable populations
The D.C.-based sex worker advocacy organization holds two orientation sessions per year
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LGBTQ advocates deliver letter to D.C. councilmembers calling for sex work decriminalization
A coalition of LGBTQ activists and advocates has dropped off copies of a letter addressed to members of the D.C. Council, signed by 72 different...
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Cheers to Charity
A Dacha Beer Garden happy hour raises funds for vulnerable LGBTQ people
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Hotline Call Frequency Slow But Regular
Last Friday, Aug. 1, marked the three-month anniversary for the LGBTQ Violence Response Hotline. Although there is still much more needed to publicize the 24-hour...
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Prostitution-Free Zones Under Fire
The D.C. Council heard testimony last week on a bill that would repeal a controversial section of the D.C. Code that allows the chief of police...
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GLOV, HIPS Launch D.C. Hotline
Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV), an antiviolence and hate-crime response group affiliated with The DC Center for the LGBT Community, in collaboration with Helping...
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City Fund Takes Flak
A coalition of LGBT advocacy groups and service organizations released a statement Monday evening expressing their disappointment that no LGBT-specific groups were named among 58...
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Groups Rally Against PFZs
About 20 community activists and advocates rallied Friday outside the John A. Wilson Building, which houses the mayor’s office and the D.C. Council chambers, to...
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Community Responds to Task Force Recommendations
Seven local groups that deal with LGBT rights issued a combined response Thursday to findings of the Anti-Defamation League's Hate Crimes Assessment Task Force (HCATF)...
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BHT Offers Cash and Kudos
Brother, Help Thyself Inc. (BHT), a local LGBT organization offering support to local nonprofits for the past 36 years, awarded more than $75,000 in grants...
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Street Wise
Growing up in suburban Maryland, the most dangerous element in young Cyndee Clay's life may have been going to public school. Hers was a conservative...
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Solitary Confinement
After coming out to my mother during college, she and I entered into one of those melancholy conversations familiar to so many of us who...
