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  • Community Responds to Task Force Recommendations

    By on March 13, 2014

    Seven local groups that deal with LGBT rights issued a combined response Thursday to findings of the Anti-Defamation League's Hate Crimes Assessment Task Force (HCATF)...

  • UPDATED: Ruby Corado Recounts Friday-Night Incident

    By on March 1, 2014

    A transgender woman was arrested Friday night in the city's 16th Street Heights neighborhood after police pulled her over for an apparently over-crowded SUV and...

  • Transgender Woman Shot in NE

    By on June 27, 2013

    The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is investigating a shooting involving a transgender woman that occurred Thursday morning in the 6000 block of Eads Street NE,...

  • GLLU Website Ceases

    By on November 21, 2012

    An external website for the Metropolitan Police Department's (MPD) Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU) is no longer operating, prompting some local LGBT activists to...

  • Skinner Scheduled for Trial

    By on April 3, 2012

    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...

  • MPD Updates Stein Club on Anti-LGBT Crimes

    By on March 20, 2012

    Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Chief Peter Newsham and Capt. Edward Delgado of MPD's Special Liaison Unit, which includes the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU),...

  • GLOV To Present Awards

    By on December 1, 2011

    Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV), the District's primary LGBT anti-violence task force, will host a community social and fundraiser at the Duplex Diner at...

  • Activists Voice Crime Concerns

    By on October 6, 2011

    Representatives from the District's various public safety agencies and the Mayor's Office of GLBT Affairs held an outreach meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 28, aimed at...

  • Shooter Pleads Guilty

    By on October 3, 2011

    A man who shot a transgender woman in the neck and attempted to rob her after she declined his sexual proposition pleaded guilty Thursday, Sept....

  • Mount Vernon Victim

    By on October 3, 2011

    A man walking in D.C.'s Mount Vernon Square neighborhood reports that he was robbed at gunpoint Thursday, Sept. 29, by assailants who used an anti-gay...

  • City Offering Safety Event

    By on September 22, 2011

    Amid a backdrop of ongoing violence aimed at the LGBT community, the Mayor's Office of GLBT Affairs has announced a Public Safety Open House event...

  • Police Chief Lanier Meets With LGBT Leaders to Address Community Concerns

    By on August 16, 2011

    In an effort to reach out to LGBT organization leaders who have expressed concerns about safety and police decisions in recent months, Metropolitan Police Department...

  • 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...

  • Building Trust

    By on July 27, 2011

    While ''LGBT'' has grown commonplace, the ''T'' remains not quite as fully integrated into the broader community. Just as commonplace, in my own experience, is...

  • Petworth Attack

    By on July 27, 2011

    A gay man was physically attacked by three other men while attempting to hail a cab on Sunday, July 17, at about 10 p.m. in...