All posts tagged "transgender"
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Interest in Angie Zapata murder revived by TV crime show
Angie Zapata, 18, was brutally murdered in July of 2008 at her rural home in Greely, Colorado. According to a new crime show, “The excessive injuries...
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Council Committee Passes Two Pro-LGBT Bills
The D.C. Council's Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety passed two bills intended to benefit members of the LGBTI community Thursday, allowing District residents...
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Transgender Homicides in Baltimore and Elsewhere Raise Alarm
The New York-based National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) and the D.C.-based National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) are calling for action after recent killings of...
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The Sweet Smell of Ba'Naka
{Ba'Naka and friends (Photo by Julian Vankim)} Dustin Michael Schaad developed his drag alter ego Ba'Naka early. ''The first time was at a high school...
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New Hope Ministries To Settle Discrimination Suit
A transgender woman who was turned away from a D.C. women's temporary homeless shelter due to her gender identity has won her fight against the...
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Montgomery Again Found Competent To Stand Trial
The Northeast D.C. man accused of killing transgender woman Deoni Jones last year by stabbing her in the face as she waited at a Northeast...
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Watching the Detective
Jaime Wojdowski is ready to accept your complaints. An equal-opportunity specialist and investigator for the D.C. Office of Human Rights (OHR), Wojdowski investigates complaints from...
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Group releases inaugural “The Trans 100” list, including many with D.C. ties
“If you recognize that this project is incomplete, and yet still has much to offer, then we trust you will find what we did: an...
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Crowd Rallies in D.C. for Transgender Health
A crowd of more than 100 people rallied at the Columbia Heights Plaza Saturday, March 30, to demonstrate support for equal treatment in health care...
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Texas Congressman Steve Stockman needs to be schooled in gender-identity
“t’s called a women’s act, but then they have men dressed up as women, they count that. Change-gender, or whatever. How is that — how...
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D.C. Moves To Protect Transgender Residents from Insurance Discrimination
The District's Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) has issued a bulletin prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity or expression by insurance companies who...
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So You Think You're a Drag Queen? Season 2, Episode 2
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...
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The Naked Truth
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...
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Transgender Testimony
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...
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So You Think You're a Drag Queen? Season 2 Begins
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...
