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  • Town Tonight Offers a ‘Crack’ at Global Travel

    By on December 7, 2013

    “Crack Trip” is the latest zany offering to come from the gay self-described low-budget theater group Crack DC, founded by Chris Farris, Karl Jones (aka...

  • Sit Down with the Chief

    By on August 16, 2011

    Leaders from local LGBT organizations sat with Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier for nearly two hours on Aug. 16, in closed-door meeting at which...

  • Courtly Conversation

    By on July 19, 2011

    D.C. Superior Court's chief judge has accepted an invitation from Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV) to speak to members of the local LGBT community...

  • Facing Hate

    By on March 16, 2011

    Washington saw 68 reported hate crimes in 2010, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. But those are just the ones they know of. Twenty-five of...

  • The Nightlife Coverboy: A Brief History

    By on December 15, 2010

    You can blame it all on Ed Bailey. During the early days of Metro Weekly, Ed, who at the time ran VelvetNation and now co-owns...

  • Neighborhood Watch

    By on August 25, 2010

    Cuts, bruises and a shoe print. That's what remained on Todd Metrokin's face after he was beaten on an Adams Morgan street by a group...

  • Changes at GLOV

    By on February 10, 2010

    Todd Metrokin and Chris Farris became the faces of Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV) in the fall of 2008 when they re-launched an organization...

  • GLOV Rain Check

    By on January 27, 2010

    Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence's (GLOV) planned open-house forum to air LGBT community concerns about the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), slated for Feb. 3, has...

  • Murder in Southeast

    By on December 28, 2009

    The Metropolitan Police Department has confirmed that Anthony James Perkins, a 29-year-old Southeast resident and ''member of the LGBT community,'' was found dead, shot inside...

  • Coalition of No Consent

    By on December 14, 2009

    D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier's ongoing agenda of reconfiguring the Metropolitan Police Department's (MPD) Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU) has raised a number of...

  • Opposing Viewpoints

    By on December 9, 2009

    Assistant Police Chief Diane Groomes of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) wants the local LGBT community to meet 35 officers, whom she claims are now...

  • Criticism Continues

    By on December 2, 2009

    Chris Farris of Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV) feels like an afterthought. He was given only three days to prepare to speak at a...

  • Lacking Liaison

    By on November 26, 2009

    Little more than two years ago, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Chief Cathy Lanier sat with members of the local LGBT community and promised that the...

  • Lacking Liaison

    By on November 24, 2009

    Little more than two years ago, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Chief Cathy Lanier sat with members of the local LGBT community and promised that the...

  • Questions and Answers

    By on October 28, 2009

    Local gay activist Peter Rosenstein doesn't trust Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier. He didn't feel that way two years ago when Lanier shared with him,...