Delays in Anti-Gay Robbery Case: Status hearing for defendants accused in...
News: The status hearing for two men accused of attacking and robbing a man while yelling homophobic slurs at him has been postponed for the second time this month. The men, Gustavo Velasquez, 24, and...
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Coverboy: Andres: Back to his birthplace
Coverboy Interview: A lifelong swimmer, an avid reader and a political junkie are just some of the traits that describe Andres. Born in the District but raised in Atlanta, the 22-year-old American...
View ArticleVirginia Supermajority Oppose Discrimination: Poll shows 4 out of 5...
News: A supermajority of Virginians believe employers should not be able to discriminate against people based on their sexual orientation, according to poll data released May 30 by the North...
View ArticleMautner Joining with Whitman-Walker Health: Lesbian health organization...
News: Mautner Project: The National Lesbian Health Organization announced today that is has begun partnering with Whitman-Walker Health, the nonprofit community health center specializing in...
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D.C. Names Director of Bullying-Prevention Program: Suzanne Greenfield to...
News: The D.C. Office of Human Rights (OHR) today announced the appointment of Suzanne Greenfield, formerly of Advocates for Justice and Education (AJE), as the first citywide Bullying Prevention...
View ArticleNCAVP Report Cites D.C. Efforts: Report praises local actions, government...
News: A report released today by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) holds up several initiatives led by local organizations and District agencies as models that can replicated in...
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Partying with Pride: Capital Pride 2013 offers a full weekend of mirth
Feature Story: ''I think this is just a great representation of a lot of the talent that we have in D.C. and in our community,'' says John Marble. Marble could be talking generally about all that's in...
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Pride's Wonder Woman: Other superheroes come and go, but Lynda Carter's smile...
Feature Story: It's not easy to stay an icon. Batmans come and go, Spider-Man gets rebooted, and even Superman is moving on from his big-screen roots from the '70s. But among that upper echelon of...
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Icona Pride: Icona Pop's Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo are ready to give and...
Feature Story: Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo sing and shout in unison on ''I Love It,'' their hit punky-pop anthem. It's hard to imagine either of the ladies, known collectively as Icona Pop, singing...
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Super Pride: Capital Pride aims to unleash some superheroes -- and some...
Feature Story: Pride 2012 (Photo by File photo / Randy Shulman) It's not often that the Capitol gets mistaken for the Justice League's Hall of Justice. Certainly, the George Washington University...
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Dark Days: The latest releases from electronic dance music pioneers Daft Punk...
Music: It's no joyride being an aging pop star. At least that's the impression you get listening to the latest releases from Daft Punk and Tricky, both pioneers in their respective styles of electronic...
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Bird Brain: Aaron Posner's ''Bird'' is edgy and endearing, while Sarah Wayne...
Stage: A gloriously neurotic, hilariously self-aware cri de coeur as told through a cleverly irreverent adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull, Aaron Posner's Stupid Fucking Bird is the kind of bold that...
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Memoirandum: Rachel Dratch and others come to town to poke fun at celebrity...
Events: This Monday, June 10, at Harman Hall, comic actress Rachel Dratch will read from celebrity autobiographies -- just not her own. ''Actually, when I was writing it,'' Dratch says, ''if I ever...
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The Business of Pride: CAGLCC members add to Capital Pride's vibrancy
Business: It's become a familiar sight at the annual Capital Pride Parade and Festival, as well as most of the other major events this month: sponsors handing out the swag. For most businesses it's a...
View ArticleLatino Pride Split: Casa Ruby and others break from LHP to offer alternative...
News: A schism among organizers of D.C.'s Latino Pride celebration has resulted in two different sets of events in the days leading up to Capital Pride's LGBT celebration. A disagreement between the...
View ArticleWork Ahead for Marriage: Illinois is not a defeat, but a wake-up call
Opinion: When the Illinois marriage-equality bill was not brought up for a vote on May 31, anti-gay obsessives like Brian Brown of National Organization for Marriage crowed as if they had defeated SB10...
View ArticleMixing Up the Message: The GetEqual heckling of Michelle Obama was the wrong...
Opinion: All's fair in love and war and, increasingly, politics. That's not an endorsement of, say, the current Republican political strategy of just making things up and having hearings to try to...
View ArticleIHOP Shooting Trial Postponed: LaShawn Carson to be tried in September on...
News: The trial of a Washington woman accused of shooting a gay man at an IHOP restaurant in March 2012 has been postponed to September, a year-and-a-half since she was officially charged. LaShawn...
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Coming-Out Contest: Local developer debuts effort to coax someone out of the...
News: How much does the truth cost? That's the question Drew Frederick is asking – and he's offering $1,000 to find out. Frederick, a straight real-estate developer in Arlington, is the sponsor of a...
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Council Committee Passes Two Pro-LGBT Bills: Legislation allowing District...
News: The D.C. Council's Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety passed two bills intended to benefit members of the LGBTI community Thursday, allowing District residents to amend the gender on...
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