Because of our many gay elected officials and neighborhoods.

D.C. has a higher percentage of residents that identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender than anywhere else in the country.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington on Sunday suspended a priest who recently made waves for denying communion to a gay woman at her mother’s funeral.

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

Local LGBT activists and District government insiders told the Washington Blade that same-sex marriages in the District may be approved by the D.C. Council as soon as next April. The likelihood of this approval hinges on a couple of results this Election Day. First is the defeat of Proposition 8, an initiative that seeks to reverse the legalization of same-sex marriages in California. The state’s Supreme Court struck down the ban on same-sex marriage on…