Pioneering D.C. gay rights advocate Frank Kameny died yesterday. He was 86. more ›

Earlier this week, I put together a short post which outlined a few of the pertinent numbers revolving around the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." It appears I've got another number to add to that entry. more ›

Cornell Jones, director of the nonprofit group which is being sued by the city for using city grant funds designed to help people with HIV/AIDS to help build a strip club, certainly has some opinions on the matter -- some incredibly homophobic ones. more ›

A D.C. Superior Court judge Friday ruled that Kenneth Furr, the veteran D.C. police officer who is facing criminal charges for an August 26 shooting in the 100 block of Pierce Street NW that involved transgender women, should continue to be held in jail until his next court appearance. Furr, who was off-duty and intoxicated, fired a gun into a car carrying five people. WJLA reports that three of the five passengers were injured. more ›

Court documents have revealed more details on what happened during an incident Friday morning that led to the arrest of an off-duty D.C. Police officer for assault with a deadly weapon and driving while intoxicated. Police say Officer Kenneth Furr jumped onto the hood of the victims' car and shouted, "I'm gonna kill you," and fired multiple times; five shells were recovered. While in custody, Furr blew a .15 on a breathalyzer test. more ›

More details are now emerging regarding an early morning shooting involving an off-duty police officer and three individuals, two of whom are transgender. more ›

D.C. police are currently investigating an early morning shooting incident which involved several people -- including an off-duty police officer and, reportedly, transgender victims -- at the intersection of First and Pierce Streets NW. more ›

Ever since the San Francisco Giants released their It Gets Better video, we had wondered whether any Washingtonian teams would follow their lead. D.C. United has done just that. more ›

In 2009, a local lesbian couple claimed that they were unfairly asked to leave the Tastee Diner in Silver Spring after a manager at the restaurant witnessed them in an embrace. Today, the diner's back in the news for similar reasons. more ›

The 19-year-old that police arrested in connection with an attack on a group of lesbian women outside the Columbia Heights Metro station on July 30 has now been charged with a hate crime. more ›

Sesame Street might not be experiencing a boom in its gay population, but Maryland and Virginia certainly are. more ›

Over the weekend, a group of five lesbians accused several D.C. police officers of ignoring an attack by two men near the Columbia Heights Metro Station -- and Chief Cathy Lanier says that she'll punish them severely if she has to. more ›

More and more the coals under D.C. police department continue to burn hotter over its recent treatment of LGBT-related hate crimes. Five lesbians are now accusing the MPD of ignoring an attack by two men near the Columbia Heights Metro Station early last Saturday morning. According to the women, the two men assaulted them slurs and punches after one of the women rebuffed advances from one of the men. more ›

Some people just never learn. Like the outspoken Bishop Harry Jackson -- who, according to Bruce DePuyt, stands "poised to fight" Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley in 2012 over same sex marriage. more ›

On Friday, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley delivered an address in which he announced he would sponsor a bill to allow same sex marriage in the state. more ›

Apex Nightclub, the 18-and-over dance spot popular with the District's LGBT and college residents, closed its doors last weekend and has been sold. more ›

An update to our earlier post about a Safeway employee who called a gay couple "faggots" while they were shopping at the chain's Waterfront store last weekend, then was videotaped offering a half-hearted apology -- the employee has been fired, and the grocer has apologized. more ›

In yesterday's Go Home Already, we noted a story in the Metro Weekly about a gay D.C. couple who were called "faggots" by a cashier at the Waterfront Safeway last weekend. The magazine has since followed up by publishing this video, in which the cashier apologizes for using the slur. more ›

Speedos! Pasties! Fabulous drag queens! Shirtless dancing Asian American cowboys! Dogs with rainbow-colored fur! Capital Pride Weekend -- which, like every year, appeared to serve as a two-day stimulus for the body paint industry -- is one of those events that's really far better remembered in photographs than words. more ›

It's Capital Pride time in the nation's capital, but Pride is hardly limited to the District. Take Richmond, where the Federal Reserve Bank is flying a rainbow flag to show its support during Pride Month. Of course, not everyone is thrilled about the flag -- that's your cue, Virginia Delegate Robert G. Marshall! more ›

For those curious, here's how the candidates in the upcoming D.C. Council special election fared on the election season questionnaire handed out by the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C. more ›

The Maryland Senate's Judicial Proceedings Committee will hold a public hearing today on the "Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act" -- one of the most important milestones to date for legislation which could find Maryland joining five other states and the District of Columbia in granting licenses for same-sex marriages. more ›

Last Friday, Mayor Vince Gray announced that he would be appointing Jeffrey Richardson, the current president of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, as director of the the city's Office of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Affairs. Many are hoping that Gray, who called Richardson "a respected and credible voice for the GLBT community," will have a more robust relationship with Richardson than previous mayor Adrian Fenty had with Christopher Dyer, the last GLBT liason who admitted that he never met with Fenty face-to-face during his term to discuss issues. more ›

It was about one week ago when we read with jaws agape as Eugene Delgaudio -- Loudoun County Board of Supervisors representative and proponent of the idea that TSA pat downs are part of a radical "homosexual agenda" involving many a "practicing homosexual secretly getting pleasure from your submission" -- wrote but the latest chapter in a long personal history of verbal attacks on homosexuals and homosexuality. But according to Delgaudio, it's the rest of us who have the problem, not him. more ›

George Washington University is planning on allowing men and women to live in the same residence hall rooms all over its campus next fall -- just like how anyone living nearly everywhere else in the world is able to do! The university's decision is part of a national trend, ridding the somewhat-insane policy of forcibly separating genders in student housing; Georgetown is also considering scrapping gender-separate dorms. (A mild thumbs up to American, who already has a few gender-neutral accommodations on campus.) In addition to perpetuating the antiquated idea that college kids will somehow maintain their chastity by living in separate quarters, the new policy, as Amanda Hess notes, is great news for LGBT students who might feel more comfortable not being forced to live in a room with someone of the same gender. Just remember, kids: bedbugs don't care what gender you are. more ›

Loudoun County Board of Supervisors representative Eugene Delgaudio is angry about the TSA pat downs that were all the rage in the media during the busy Thanksgiving travel season. But it's not because he finds the pat-downs unconstitutional, or generally objects to America going too far in its dogged attempts to prevent terrorism. Nah, Delgaudio doesn't like the new TSA security procedures because he claims they are part of a wide-scale "homosexual agenda." more ›

Bishop Harry Jackson has lost pretty much every battle related to marriage equality in the District, but he's not giving up. more ›

Oh, this should be an interesting intersection of events! According to The Washington Blade, a "World Cup event, called Soccer in the Circle, will take place inside Dupont Circle on June 12, the same day that the Capital Pride parade will travel along the circle’s perimeter as 10,000 people walk in the LGBT parade or watch from the sidewalks." more ›