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  • Local Gay Man Found Dead (UPDATED)

    By on July 26, 2010

    Mark Gower, a 26-year-old gay man from Portland, Ore., who had been living in the District since 2006, and dancing at Secrets in Southwest D.C....

  • Conviction for Bias

    By on June 16, 2010

    The Metropolitan Police Department announced on Wednesday, June 16, that a D.C. Superior Court jury has found two men guilty for their involvement in a...

  • Trans Woman Shot

    By on June 7, 2010

    The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) announced on Friday, June 4, that members of MPD's 6th District are investigating an assault with a dangerous weapon, which...

  • Glancing Blows

    By on May 28, 2010

    The second week of the Robert Wone trial began with a sharp focus from the defense -- and discussion of sharp glances on the scene...

  • Watergate's Strange Bedfellows

    By on April 15, 2010

    June 2010 will mark not a milestone, but an anniversary nonetheless, of the Watergate break-in that forever altered the landscape of American politics, if not...

  • Second Southeast Homicide

    By on January 21, 2010

    Two more people within the local LGBT community have been killed since Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV) held its last public meeting in November....

  • Unpacking the Numbers

    By on January 21, 2010

    As a survivor of violence and a lesbian trans woman in a world that treats my identity as delusional or deceptive, I understand fear. I...

  • 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...

  • Editing for Inclusion

    By on November 30, 2009

    The Metropolitan Police Department is slated to review hate-crime reports for 2008 in an effort to include a new category noticeably missing from Mayor Adrian...

  • 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...

  • Open-House Anger

    By on November 16, 2009

    Despite the lure of an unseasonably temperate evening, about 60 people chose to remain indoors to hear what Assistant Chief Diane Groomes of the Metropolitan...

  • Q Street Questions

    By on September 2, 2009

    There has been confusion and there have been endless questions in the few days since a knife attack left one local woman injured and another...

  • Attitude Adjustment

    By on August 12, 2009

    As an activist I have had occasion to criticize the police; but I also count many police officers as friends. So after gay attorney Pepin...

  • Police Seek Suspect

    By on April 1, 2009

    The Metropolitan Police Department is on the hunt for a suspect believed to have been involved in a ''gay on gay'' robbery near Massachusetts Avenue...

  • Survey for Safety

    By on February 11, 2009

    Washington is home to the mother lode of public and nonprofit entities that digest data, move society forward, and dole out funding for an infinite...