All posts by John Riley
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New Plea Deal in Works for Furr
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia is expected to offer a plea deal within the next week to Kenneth Furr, the off-duty...
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Choosing a Candidate
A month out from May's special election to replace former Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. (D), Ward 5 residents are doing some candidate-shopping. The special election,...
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SMYAL to host discussion panel on factors leading to LGBT youth suicides
The Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL), the D.C. organization advocating for sexual-minority youth, is partnering with ''1 Lyfe @ A Time'' to host a...
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New Campaign Manager, Rosy Polls Bolster Marylanders for Marriage Equality Heading into Referendum Fight
Marylanders for Marriage Equality, the coalition of labor, religious, civic and political groups and organizations working to ensure marriage equality in the Free State, announced...
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Carson Hearing Rescheduled
The preliminary hearing for a woman accused of shooting a member of the LGBT community at an IHOP Restaurant in Columbia Heights was continued and...
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Counting the Crimes
The March 20 demonstration for victims of crimes that seemed to target members of the LGBT community may have been more warranted than organizers imagined....
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Incumbency Trumps in DC and Maryland
As with District residents writ large, D.C.'s LGBT community shouldn't expect any major changes in its collective relationship with the city's elected officials. With results...
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Skinner Scheduled for Trial
The man accused of approaching two teenage girls, 15 and 16, near the Minnesota Avenue Metro Station and threatening to rape them in front of...
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New Poll on Md. Marriage Equality Shows Close Divide, With Large Number of No Opinion, Undecideds
Another day, another poll showing Marylanders divided over the issue of marriage equality. With the state’s recently passed marriage equality law likely headed to referendum...
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Victim of Georgia Ave. Robbery Speaks
Following the March 12 beating and subsequent robbery of a gay man by two separate groups of people in the city's Park View neighborhood, Washington's...
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Bowie State Opening Center for LGBT Students
Bowie State University will make LGBT history come April 2. On that Monday, the university will become the first Historically Black College or University (HBCU)...
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D.C. Officials Announce Arrest in IHOP Shooting
Mayor Vincent Gray (D) and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier held a press briefing Monday, March 26, to announce the arrest of a suspect...
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Montgomery Found Competent to Stand Trial
The suspect charged with the Feb. 2 fatal stabbing of 23-year-old transgender woman Deoni Jones as she waited at a Northeast D.C. bus stop has...
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Hundreds March to Protest LGBT Hate Crimes in D.C.
{Protesters, including Rodney Shaffer (second from left, in red), stand in silence Photo by Dylan Comstock} Hundreds of D.C. residents took to the streets on...
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Community Marches in D.C. To Protest Anti-LGBT Attacks [video]
Members of Washington's LGBT community held a march and vigil on March 20 following the shooting of a gay man at an IHOP restaurant in...
