A lack of resources inspired Bruce Weiss, former executive director of the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL), to join forces last summer with a...
In August 2007, D.C. announced the firing of three corrections officers for wrongfully placing a transgender inmate, who had female genitalia, in a male jail...
On March 11, the State Department released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007. A compilation of the LGBT- and HIV/AIDS-related portions is...
“The government is hiding behind the court to close the newspaper. It is sending a message to the media that it will not tolerate press...
Students at D.C.'s public high schools who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual were four times more likely to attempt suicide over the past year,...
The District is familiar with Black Pride. After all, hitting its 18th year in 2008, the DC Black Pride festival is the nation's oldest, a...
”Well, you know, if I was a girl and he was a girl, and I was a lesbian and he was a lesbian, I’d be...
”ll I want from you today is to take the books off the shelves, so children can have a safe place to learn like I...
”Elton has become a friend. I lost my son, and now I have these other friends. It seems wrong on some level. It’s very...
”I’m not gay-bashing. But according to God’s word that is not the right kind of lifestyle.” — Oklahoma state legislator Rep. Sally Kern (R), defending...
”If I return to Iran I will be arrested and executed.” — Mehdi Kazemi, a 19-year-old Iranian who had applied for and was denied asylum...
”In his absence, he’s standing up one more time and showing people the way.” Thatcher Bailey, a high-school classmate and friend of Ric Weiland, a...
”Gay is approved for copy and preferred over homosexual, except in clinical references or references to sexual activity.” — Erik Wemple, Washington City Paper editor,...
”It was a tough movie to watch. I’ve been with my partner for 30 years and it’s always been an issue: What if one of...
”I am Iranian. I want to live here and this society tells you: You have to be either a man or a woman.” — Negar...