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  • So You Think You're a Drag Queen? Season 2, Episode 2

    By on March 14, 2013

    In this second installment, hosts Shi-Queeta-Lee and lena Lett preside over D.C.'s amateur drag competition. Five new contestants and two returns take to the stage...

  • The Naked Truth

    By on March 6, 2013

    Whether it's because of ancient locker-room nightmares or present day fluctuations in my weight, I have body issues. A few years ago, when I was...

  • Transgender Testimony

    By on February 27, 2013

    The Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee on Tuesday heard testimony on SB449 – a bill to prohibit discrimination against transgender and gender-nonconforming people in Maryland in...

  • So You Think You're a Drag Queen? Season 2 Begins

    By on February 26, 2013

    Episode 1 of the second season of the monthly competition at Town Danceboutique in Washington, D.C. Five new amateur contestants -- Kim Deneeda, Renee Porcelain...

  • Suspect in Transgender Assault Case Reprimanded

    By on February 22, 2013

    A D.C. Superior Court judge this morning reprimanded Ahmad Robinson, accused of attacking a transgender woman in D.C.'s Chinatown neighborhood in August, for not complying...

  • Furr Appealing Conviction

    By on February 20, 2013

    A lawyer for Kenneth Furr, the Metropolitan Police Department officer found guilty of an off-duty assault with a dangerous weapon and solicitation of prostitution, filed...

  • Deoni Jones's Legal Legacy

    By on February 7, 2013

    It's been a year since transgender District resident Deoni Jones was fatally stabbed in the face at a Northeast D.C. bus stop. But the prosecution...

  • Banner Year

    By on February 7, 2013

    Madonna might have urged us all to ''strike a pose'' and ''vogue,'' but the women of Casa Ruby have taken that instruction to heart, creating...

  • Delay in Transgender Stabbing Trial

    By on January 29, 2013

    Gary Niles Montgomery, the 56-year-old Washington man accused of stabbing and killing Deoni Jones, a transgender woman, at a Northeast D.C. bus stop, was today...

  • D.C. Court Orders Suspect in Transgender Stabbing To Undergo Mental Observation

    By on January 19, 2013

    Gary Niles Montgomery, the 55-year-old Washington man accused of fatally stabbing transgender woman Deoni Jones, aka JaParker, at a Northeast bus stop in February 2012,...

  • Trans Rights Top Maryland Activists' ''To-Do'' List

    By on January 13, 2013

    If the third time wasn't quite the charm, maybe the seventh time will be, with some of Maryland's LGBT community leaders hopeful that 2013 will...

  • Activists Blast Furr Sentence

    By on January 11, 2013

    Members of the District's LGBT community are slamming the decision yesterday by D.C. Superior Court Judge Russell Canan to suspend the sentence of Metropolitan Police...

  • Furr Sentenced to Probation, Community Service

    By on January 10, 2013

    Kenneth Furr, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer accused of shooting his service weapon while off-duty at a car of five people, including two transgender...

  • A Wish for 2013

    By on January 3, 2013

    While 2012 was a bit of a mixed bag for me from a personal perspective, it was undeniably a remarkable year to be a gay...

  • Drag King Christmas

    By on December 13, 2012

    ''I am your sole drag queen of the house,'' purrs Isis Deverreoux of Phase 1 of Dupont. In fact, Deverreoux is becoming essentially the lesbian...