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  • Street Wise

    By on April 12, 2012

    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...

  • Counting the Crimes

    By on April 4, 2012

    The March 20 demonstration for victims of crimes that seemed to target members of the LGBT community may have been more warranted than organizers imagined....

  • Say What We Mean

    By on April 4, 2012

    So Tony Perkins, the longtime bigoted mouthpiece for the rabidly anti-gay Family Research Council, was rather apoplectic this past week over the news that a...

  • Our Little Girl

    By on April 4, 2012

    We are the parents of a transgender child, Jackie. And we decided to tell our family's story on television, in the April broadcast of the...

  • LGBT News Briefs: Pageant and Parish

    By on April 4, 2012

    Beauty Pageant Hopeful Takes on Miss Universe Over Gender Identity Jenna Talackova, 23, spoke on Tuesday, alongside celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, about her ordeal of...

  • Montgomery Found Competent to Stand Trial

    By on March 23, 2012

    The suspect charged with the Feb. 2 fatal stabbing of 23-year-old transgender woman Deoni Jones as she waited at a Northeast D.C. bus stop has...

  • Illusionists

    By on March 21, 2012

    When reigning titleholder Kirby Kolby steps down at Saturday's Miss Gay D.C. America pageant, the experience may be bittersweet. But the emphasis really should be...

  • Six-Month Field Test

    By on March 20, 2012

    Sixth months ago, the United States military, under the direction of President Barack Obama, began allowing out gay, lesbian and bisexual service for the first...

  • MPD Updates Stein Club on Anti-LGBT Crimes

    By on March 20, 2012

    Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Chief Peter Newsham and Capt. Edward Delgado of MPD's Special Liaison Unit, which includes the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU),...

  • MPD Reports Reveal More Anti-LGBT Attacks

    By on March 19, 2012

    As seasonal temperatures rise, attacks with some indication of anti-LGBT bias are also apparently increasing. A shooting at a Columbia Heights IHOP Restaurant and a...

  • More Felony Charges for Furr

    By on March 9, 2012

    The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia on March 7 filed several new charges against Kenneth Furr. Furr, the Metropolitan Police Department officer...

  • Town and Gown

    By on March 7, 2012

    One day, maybe D.C. will have another homegrown contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race. But for now, every weekend Town features Miss Tatiana, season two's third...

  • With Marriage Done, Maryland Gender Identity Bill Gets a Senate Hearing

    By on March 1, 2012

    With marriage equality out of the way, transgender Marylanders are hoping there is enough goodwill — and enough time left in the 2012 legislative session...

  • Trans Group Decries DC Police Chief for “Abdicating” Responsibilities, But Lanier Shoots Back

    By on February 29, 2012

    A local organization today accused Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier of “abdicating” her responsibility to keep transgender people safe, but Lanier retorted that the...

  • Baltimore County Passes Gender-Identity Bill

    By on February 23, 2012

    The Baltimore County Council passed a transgender rights bill prohibiting discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity or expression on a...