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  • Casa Ruby Covergirls

    By on October 3, 2012

    A local makeup artist who recently launched his new brand of cosmetics is giving back to the local LGBT community, offering makeup and fashion instruction,...

  • Surveying the Transgender Scene

    By on May 2, 2012

    For the next six months to a year, the DC Trans Coalition (DCTC) will be surveying members of the District's transgender community in hopes of...

  • Ruby Corado to Open LGBT Latino Resource Center

    By on May 2, 2012

    Everybody is welcome at Casa Ruby. That's the pitch from local transgender activist Ruby Corado, who plans to open an LGBT-targeted resource center in Columbia...

  • GLAA Celebrates 41st Anniversary

    By on April 19, 2012

    The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C. (GLAA), the nation's oldest continuously running gay rights advocacy organization, will mark its 41st anniversary with...

  • MPD Fields Transgender Crime Questions

    By on September 13, 2011

    Metropolitan Police Department officials held a news conference Sept. 12 intended to address a shooting and the death of an unidentified person, but were bombarded...

  • Going Public with Anti-Trans Attacks (UPDATED)

    By on September 12, 2011

    Metropolitan Police Department officials held a news conference Monday afternoon, Sept. 12, to ask the press and public for help in the death investigation of...

  • 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...

  • Building Trust

    By on July 27, 2011

    While ''LGBT'' has grown commonplace, the ''T'' remains not quite as fully integrated into the broader community. Just as commonplace, in my own experience, is...

  • ''Too Many Times''

    By on July 24, 2011

    Hundreds of friends, family and members of D.C.'s LGBT community gathered for a vigil on Saturday, July 23, marking and mourning the death of Lashai...

  • Community Mourning

    By on July 21, 2011

    Community organizers have announced a candlelight vigil at the corner of 61st and Dix Streets NE for Saturday, July 23, at 7 p.m., remembering Lashai...

  • Transgender Needs

    By on November 25, 2010

    Ten years ago, a ''needs assessment survey'' was undertaken by local activists to collect data regarding the city's transgender community. That survey has been used...

  • Sharing Trans Tales

    By on June 4, 2010

    It's not just a documentary film. That's the message that resonated for local transgender activist Ruby Corado, executive director of the local LGBT Latino group...

  • Transforming Corrections

    By on July 9, 2008

    D.C. Trans Coalition continues effort to amend DOC guidelines on transgender inmates Complaints regarding the handling of transgender inmates in D.C. jails, including stories from...

  • Prison Guideline Grudge

    By on June 18, 2008

    Jeri Hughes, a member of D.C. Trans Coalition, on June 12 fired the latest shot in an ongoing melee between the D.C. Department of Corrections...

  • Uncommon decency

    By on April 2, 2008

    In August 2007, D.C. announced the firing of three corrections officers for wrongfully placing a transgender inmate, who had female genitalia, in a male jail...