News + Politics
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A Moon for Misrule
If a full moon makes people crazy, what's their excuse the rest of the month? This haunting question arose on Oct. 18 as I sat...
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Tom Ridge torpedoes tea party era at Log Cabin dinner
Tom Ridge lit into the modern-day Republican Party in a fiery speech Wednesday night that called for the GOP to embrace inclusion or face indefinite...
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Monica Palacio To Lead OHR
Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) announced Thursday plans to appoint the Office of Human Rights (OHR) Language Access Program Director Mónica Palacio as the interim...
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DNA Sought from Suspect in Gay Columbia Heights Killing
D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin announced late last week that he will issue an order, sought by prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office...
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Mental Health Delay for Suspect in Deoni Jones Homicide
Gary Niles Montgomery, the Northeast D.C. man accused of killing transgender woman Deoni Jones in February 2012, is now undergoing a 30-day mental observation following...
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Chris Christie’s gay rights gamble
There are multiple reasons why social conservatives have never quite warmed to Chris Christie. On Monday, he gave them another. After vowing to challenge the...
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Lawsuit filed challenging Tennessee same-sex marriage ban
The same day New Jersey became the 14th state, plus D.C., to recognize same-sex couples’ right to marry, advocates in Tennessee filed the latest in...
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Christie drops appeal of New Jersey gay-marriage ruling
Hours after same-sex couples began marrying in New Jersey, shortly after midnight on Monday, Republican Gov. Chris Christie announced he would abandon his fight over...
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Joe McCarthy, Co-Conspirators On Trial
The newly resurgent Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., will present a ''mock trial'' pursuit of criminal conspiracy and blackmail charges against deceased U.S. Sens. Joseph...
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AIDS Walk To Honor Sean Sasser
The 27th AIDS Walk Washington, the annual fundraising event for community health center Whitman-Walker Health and its partner organizations, has announced that it will honor...
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New Jersey Supreme Court rules same-sex marriages to begin Oct. 21
Same-sex weddings will begin in New Jersey Oct. 21, the state’s highest court ruled Friday in a decision that refused to delay a lower court’s...
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CDC urged to stop denying cancer screenings to transgender women
Two national LGBT-rights organizations are calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to re-evaluate a discriminatory policy that denies cancer screenings to...
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Mizeur nets Eastern Shore endorsements; Gansler picks Ivey as running mate
The three-way race for the Democratic nod to become Maryland’s next governor continues to build steam, with Del. Heather Mizeur (D-Montgomery Co.) and Attorney General...
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Moving Forward with Annie's Way
A bill to designate a section of Church Street NW as ''Annie's Way,'' in honor of the legacy of Annie's Paramount Steakhouse, a popular LGBT-friendly...
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Hunting for LGBT History
While the federal government might stop, time marches on. In October, that truth may be particularly poignant for LGBT folks marking LGBT History Month. The...
