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  • Smallwood Funeral Draws Hundreds

    By on April 21, 2010

    Hundreds filled the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church on Monday, April 19, to say farewell to a pioneer: Charlotte Smallwood. ''The community has lost an icon,''...

  • Dinner and Dialogue

    By on April 8, 2010

    While the ''Trans Town Hall Dinner'' is open to not only the transgender community, but also anyone who identifies as an ally, local transgender activist...

  • Trans Awakening

    By on November 18, 2009

    On Wednesdays, Earline Budd is behind bars. It's usually from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. when the 51-year-old spends her time at the D.C. Department...

  • Legacy of Liberty

    By on October 14, 2009

    As the late writer and children's advocate Pearl S. Buck put it, ''One faces the future with one's past.'' It's a sentiment that runs through...

  • Calling All Donors

    By on September 2, 2009

    At the end of the month, Transgender Health Empowerment (T.H.E.) will be closing the doors of the Tyra Hunter Drop-In Center, where for the past...

  • Q Street Questions

    By on September 2, 2009

    There has been confusion and there have been endless questions in the few days since a knife attack left one local woman injured and another...

  • T.H.E. Client Killed

    By on August 26, 2009

    A Wednesday attack on two transgender women has left one dead, according to the Metropolitan Police Department, who have ''tentatively classified this case as a...

  • A House Becomes a Home

    By on July 22, 2009

    When Johnny Sabbat lived with his mother, he wasn’t allowed to have gay friends. “My family didn’t approve of my homosexuality because they viewed it...

  • Brian Watson

    By on April 15, 2009

    During his elementary school years, you wouldn't find Brian Watson on the busy playground with the other kids during recess. Instead he preferred to stay...

  • The GLBT Beat

    By on November 12, 2008

    On election night, Nov. 4, Steven Kensinger and Zack Pesavento were just like so many other Washingtonians who poured out onto District streets to celebrate...

  • Arrested Development

    By on August 27, 2008

    For the past three-and-a-half years, local transgender activist Earline Budd has volunteered her time on Wednesdays, visiting transgender inmates at the D.C. Department of Corrections'...

  • A Place to Call Home

    By on May 21, 2008

    Two weeks before opening the District's first transitional home for homeless GLBT youth, Brian Watson is working on only four hours of sleep, consumed by...

  • Pageant with a Cause

    By on May 14, 2008

    The second annual Mr. and Miss Transgender Health Empowerment (THE) Pageant, Sunday, May 18, will include contestants from all over the United States, says Brian...

  • 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...

  • Warm Donation

    By on February 6, 2008

    Ray Daniels D.C. Black Pride has donated 14 bags of coats, about $1,000 and food items to Damien Ministries, collected...