All posts tagged "transgender"
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TVC’s Anti-Trans Attack Email Sparks Outrage, But Not Surprise, From LGBT Activists
Although the only...
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National LGBT News Briefs: Good and Bad in Minnesota
Feinberg Arrested in Protest Supporting Cece McDonald Transgender activist and author Leslie Feinberg was arrested June 4 in Minneapolis for participation in a protest action...
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The Attractions of Pride
''People have told me that they feel empowered, that my songs are so empowering,'' singer Deborah Cox told Metro Weekly in 2010. ''Even though some...
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Town Hall Tackles Youth Homelessness
Representatives of both local and national D.C.-based nonprofit groups shared their experiences of working with homeless LGBT youth Thursday night, May 31, at the ''LGBT...
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Whitman-Walker Launches Transgender Legal Clinic
Whitman-Walker Health, the nonprofit community health center specializing in HIV/AIDS and LGBT health care, announced today that it will provide a free, ongoing legal clinic...
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Release, Change of Bond Denied for Furr
Kenneth Furr, the off-duty Metropolitan Police Department officer who allegedly shot at a car containing five people, including at least two transgender women, remains held...
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Hair-Raising Tale
When Everett Maroon puts his mind to writing, there's no telling what might come out. Take the novel Super Queers he's shopping around. It's your...
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Beninda, Budd nominated for D.C. Commission on Human Rights
Neither Alexandra Beninda nor Earline Budd is a stranger to the LGBT community, so it came as little shock when Mayor Vincent Gray (D) nominated...
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Sarah Smiles
As April turned to May, change was afoot on D.C.'s American University campus. For starters, April 30 marked the end of Student Government President Tim...
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Surveying the Transgender Scene
For the next six months to a year, the DC Trans Coalition (DCTC) will be surveying members of the District's transgender community in hopes of...
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Ruby Corado to Open LGBT Latino Resource Center
Everybody is welcome at Casa Ruby. That's the pitch from local transgender activist Ruby Corado, who plans to open an LGBT-targeted resource center in Columbia...
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Backward Glances
Some large portion of the collective Democratic mind will always see the world as if it's still 1993. That's when the backlash against President Bill...
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Taking a Drag in Arlington
You won't see drag queens in swimsuits at the Miss Gay Arlington pageant. ''There are several queens who God blessed with an extremely good body,...
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Transgender Breakthrough
An employer who discriminates against an employee or applicant on the basis of the person's gender identity is violating the prohibition on sex discrimination contained...
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A Woman’s Fight, a Couple’s Resilience
Mia Macy is a veteran and police officer, married to the woman she met in her teens, who wanted to take a job as a...
