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  • D.C. Debuts Transgender Employment Program

    By on September 19, 2011

    Project Empowerment, a program run by the District of Columbia's Department of Employment Services, has enrolled its first full class of transgender individuals, marking the...

  • Plea Deal Offered in Transgender Shooting Case

    By on September 16, 2011

    A man accused of shooting and trying to rob a transgender woman in Southeast D.C.'s Shipley Terrace neighborhood appeared in court for a preliminary status...

  • Social Security Ends Gender “No-Match” Letters, White House “Welcomes This Move”

    By on September 15, 2011

    The National Center for Transgender Equality announced this evening: The Social Security Administration (SSA) has confirmed that it has ended the practice of allowing gender to be matched in its...

  • Arrest Made in Trans Shooting

    By on September 13, 2011

    The Metropolitan Police Department announced this morning that an arrest has been made in the case of a transgender woman shot in the early hours...

  • 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...

  • Trans Woman Found Dead in Columbia Heights

    By on September 10, 2011

    [UPDATE: Metro Weekly received a Metropolitan Police Department email at 5:59 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 13, identifying the victim as Gaurav Gopolan, 35. For further developments,...

  • No Bail for Cop in Trans Shooting

    By on September 2, 2011

    The off-duty police officer arrested for allegedly shooting at a car containing two transgender women and three others was denied bond at a preliminary status...

  • Officer Arrested

    By on September 1, 2011

    The off-duty Metropolitan Police Department officer, Kenneth Furr, who allegedly shot two transgender women seated in a car early Friday, Aug. 26, at First and...

  • Transgender Shooting Prompts Rally

    By on August 26, 2011

    Local community organizations and advocacy groups are holding a rally to bring attention to an increase in violence against transgender individuals after an altercation with...

  • Mayor Gray Commits to Addressing Anti-Trans Employment Barriers

    By on August 9, 2011

    Members of the local LGBT community, including the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA), Transgender Health Empowerent and the DC Trans Coalition, met with Mayor...

  • 4 Questions for Raja

    By on August 3, 2011

    Raja -- the winner of season 3 of Ru Paul's Drag Race -- performed at Town Danceboutique last Saturday, July 30, and Metro Weekly got...

  • Hiding the Bacon

    By on July 6, 2011

    ''We have very loyal football fans, and there was just about a rumble,'' says Doug Schantz, owner of Nellie's Sports Bar. Schantz is referring to...

  • Gender in Virginia

    By on June 16, 2011

    The local transgender community and allies have a long history of fighting for more equitable treatment of transgender inmates in the custody of D.C.'s Department...

  • Madonnarama

    By on June 6, 2011

    Here's an interesting fact: Adam Guerra has devoted so much of his life to drag and impersonating women, he only just bought his first bottle...