UPDATED: Ruby Corado Recounts Friday-Night Incident: D.C. activists critical...
News: A transgender woman was arrested Friday night in the city's 16th Street Heights neighborhood after police pulled her over for an apparently over-crowded SUV and charged her with driving on an...
View ArticleD.C. Endorsements and Ratings Issued: Gray, Wells, Evans top list in GLAA...
News: With the April Democratic primary fast approaching, some of D.C.'s LGBT organizations are in the midst of vetting candidates for mayor and D.C. Council seats. The Gay and Lesbian Activists...
View ArticleSupporting Player: From coast to coast, Chris Svoboda's journey has kept her...
Feature Story: Center stage is quite possibly the last place you'll find Chris Svoboda. While she's had a hand in multiple efforts over the years, she's made sure not to be the face of any of them. Her...
View ArticleUnromantic Comedies: Folger Theatre's unprecedented in-the-round staging...
Stage: Have you ever nodded off at the theater? Do you worry that you might be particularly prone to doing just that during Shakespeare, the bard of long, complicated, verbose plays? Well, especially...
View ArticleVelvet Town: Town throws another Velvet reunion party to celebrate what would...
Clublife: Ed Bailey can't say for certain that Thunderpuss's monster '90s-era club jams were first played publicly at D.C.'s Velvet Nation. "I think that that's what happened, but I don't really...
View ArticleAnglophilic: The Washington Ballet celebrates British rock -- and choreography
Dance: ''All three of these choreographers are at the top of their game,'' Septime Webre says, referring to Trey McIntyre, Christopher Bruce and Christopher Wheeldon. As artistic director of The...
View ArticleRah-Rah for Rye Rye: Baltimore's high-energy rapper makes her Strathmore debut
Music: "My show is really high-energy, a lot of dancing -- Baltimore club dancing," Rye Rye says. Anyone who's seen the Charm City rapper perform knows she speaks the truth. It was Rye Rye, after all,...
View ArticleLocals React to Clarified Coverage: Mayor Gray's statement on 2013 DISB...
News: D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray (D) last week announced that the District of Columbia's Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking (DISB) would be advising health insurance companies operating in...
View ArticleFinding Hope in Uganda: Gay American shares his perspective on the homeland...
Opinion: Not long ago, things were calm and somber in Uganda. But bigoted evangelical Christians from the U.S. seeking to promote a homophobic agenda led to the drafting of the so-called "kill the gays...
View ArticleGray Falls Short at Stein Club: Incumbent mayor four votes shy of LGBT...
News: Incumbent Mayor Vince Gray (D) fell four votes short of securing the coveted endorsement of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the city's largest LGBT political organization, at a Thursday...
View ArticleCoverboy: Scott: Coverboy: Bartenders Edition
Coverboy Interview: Coverboy Scott didn't think he'd ever work in a gay bar. In fact, he didn't know much about the LGBT community at all. But when the owner of a newly opened Freddie's approached his...
View ArticleCelebrating D.C.'s ''Sheroes'': Mayor's Office of GLBT Affairs to honor three...
News: The Mayor's Office of GLBT Affairs today announced the honorees of its third annual ''Sheroes of the Movement'' awards, given annually to lesbian, bisexual or queer women who have made...
View ArticleVirginia's 2014 Session Setbacks: Despite failure of pro-LGBT legislation,...
News: As Virginia's 2014 legislative session comes to close, activists are taking stock. Equality Virginia, the commonwealth's major LGBT-rights organization, came into this year's legislative session...
View ArticleGLAA Announces Distinguished Service Award Winners: Annual anniversary...
News: The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA), the largest nonpartisan LGBT political group in Washington, announced Friday that it is honoring Jerry Clark, Alison Gill and Earl Fowlkes Jr. as...
View ArticleLGBT-Advocacy Group Asks McAuliffe To Reconsider Nomination: POFEV objects to...
News: People of Faith for Equality in Virginia (POFEV), a group of religious people who support LGBT rights and which often allies itself with the commonwealth's LGBT community, has written a letter to...
View ArticleTeamDC 2014 Fashion Show and Model Search: Models in swim wear and underwear...
Video: Team DC, Washington's gay and lesbian sports organization, took the stage at Town Danceboutique for its annual model search and fashion show, hosted by Brent "Barbara Bush" Minor and Zach...
View ArticleDC Center Honors Advocates for Youth: LGBT Center's Youth Working Group to...
News: The DC Center, the District's major LGBT community center, will honor Maggie Riden of the DC Alliance of Youth Advocates (DCAYA) and Councilmember Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) at its 2014 Youth Working...
View ArticleEquality Virginia Names OUTstanding Virginians: Awardees will be honored for...
News: Equality Virginia, the commonwealth's major LGBT organization, on Monday announced the winners of its OUTstanding Virginians awards, which are given annually to LGBT Virginians who have made an...
View ArticleCatania Enters Mayor's Race: Gay at-large councilmember files as independent...
News: Councilmember David Catania (I-At Large) filed papers with the D.C. Office of Campaign Finance Wednesday morning declaring his intent to seek the city's mayoralty in the November general...
View ArticleA Wish for Ukraine: As tensions simmer in Crimea, one gay activist calls for...
Opinion: The Crimean Peninsula is an autonomous republic within Ukraine, and the home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet, in Sevastopol, in accordance with a bilateral Ukrainian-Russian agreement. And for...
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