News + Politics
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Nipper Sets Departure Date
It's official: Darlene Nipper is stepping down as director of Mayor Fenty's Office of LGBT Affairs. Beyond that, the details get a bit muddy. While...
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D.C. AIDS Agency Realigns, Sets Goals
Since naming himself interim director of the city's HIV/AIDS Administration (HAA) in January, D.C. Department of Health Director of Dr. Gregg Pane has taken a...
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Maryland Lobby Day
At first glance, there may seem to be a romantic subtext to scheduling the annual Equality Maryland Lobby Day -- for the past several years...
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Just Friends
I don't know how anyone has the constitution for a breakup. The average person weathers even life's most routine daily predicaments with great difficulty, and...
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Local News Briefs
Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Eight out of every 10 people living with AIDS in Washington are African-American. That includes Robert Cobb, a 54-year-old gay client...
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Community Growth
Gigi Thomas is on call 24 hours a day. The transgender client advocate and hotline supervisor for Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive (HIPS), in Adams Morgan,...
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Drinking and Entering
Last summer, Washington's gay nightlife community bid farewell to a handful of gay bars and clubs in Southeast, including VelvetNation, to make way for the...
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CTA gives to SMYAL
The Capital Tennis Association (CTA), a local not-for-profit organization that coordinates and promotes tennis in the gay community, recently donated $15,275 to the Sexual Minority...
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License for Ladies
As the redevelopment juggernaut of the Southeast waterfront steams ahead, fueled by the Washington Nationals baseball stadium construction, the fates of shuttered adult businesses catering...
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Growing Concerns on 14th Street
Even though it was 11 p.m. on a Tuesday night, Sak Pollert didn't think much of the two men who were following him as he...
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A New Blow to DADT
Bit by bit, support for the military's ban on openly gay service members is crumbling. In a recent and important op-ed in the New York...
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The Invisible Youth
My mother called me the other night looking for answers. A childhood friend of mine had killed herself, and my clearly shaken mother wanted to...
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Changes Ahead
Few clinics offered free services in Washington in 1968, yet that was the year that the Washington Free Clinic credits itself as the first such...
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Missing Arlington man found dead
Michele Anne Riley never had a chance to say goodbye to her brother, Donald Charles Ebe, who vanished nearly three months ago. On Wednesday, authorities...
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Back on the Streets
When D.C.'s new chief of police met with supervisors from the city's various police units to discuss plans for a new community policing effort, Sgt....
