Peter TerVeer, the Library of Congress staffer who was fired last week after several years of harassment from his supervisors because he is gay, said he would return to his office if given the opportunity and the situation were improved. more ›

Peter TerVeer, who was fired from his job at the Library of Congress last week, says he faced a workplace culture of constant harassment from his supervisors after they learned he is gay. more ›

Police arrested a suspect in a March 11 shooting at the IHOP in Columbia Heights neighborhood in which the victim was the subject of anti-gay harassment, Mayor Gray and D.C. Police Chief Lanier announced Monday. more ›

Nearly 700 people marched through the streets last night in response to recent violent crimes targeting gay and transgender victims. The march garnered the attention of D.C. Council members and D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier. more ›

Galvanized by recent anti-gay hate crimes, several hundred activists are planning to a rally and march tonight in support of the victims. About 600 people so far have signed up on the event's Facebook page. more ›

The Metropolitan Police Department said at a press conference Thursday evening it is making headway in investigations of three recent violent crimes in which two victims were gay men and another was a transgender woman. more ›

The shooting of a man at the Columbia Heights IHOP early Sunday and an assault on an individual Monday in Park View are being investigated as anti-gay hate crimes. But an assault Monday on a transgender woman is not currently being investigated as a hate crime. more ›

A Metropolitan Police Department officer was indicted yesterday in connection with an incident last August in which he allegedly fired his service weapon in an altercation that arose from an attempt to solicit sex from a transgender prostitute. more ›

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 ›