All posts tagged "transgender"
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Street Wise
Growing up in suburban Maryland, the most dangerous element in young Cyndee Clay's life may have been going to public school. Hers was a conservative...
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Counting the Crimes
The March 20 demonstration for victims of crimes that seemed to target members of the LGBT community may have been more warranted than organizers imagined....
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Say What We Mean
So Tony Perkins, the longtime bigoted mouthpiece for the rabidly anti-gay Family Research Council, was rather apoplectic this past week over the news that a...
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Our Little Girl
We are the parents of a transgender child, Jackie. And we decided to tell our family's story on television, in the April broadcast of the...
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LGBT News Briefs: Pageant and Parish
Beauty Pageant Hopeful Takes on Miss Universe Over Gender Identity Jenna Talackova, 23, spoke on Tuesday, alongside celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, about her ordeal of...
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Montgomery Found Competent to Stand Trial
The suspect charged with the Feb. 2 fatal stabbing of 23-year-old transgender woman Deoni Jones as she waited at a Northeast D.C. bus stop has...
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Illusionists
When reigning titleholder Kirby Kolby steps down at Saturday's Miss Gay D.C. America pageant, the experience may be bittersweet. But the emphasis really should be...
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Six-Month Field Test
Sixth months ago, the United States military, under the direction of President Barack Obama, began allowing out gay, lesbian and bisexual service for the first...
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MPD Updates Stein Club on Anti-LGBT Crimes
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),...
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MPD Reports Reveal More Anti-LGBT Attacks
As seasonal temperatures rise, attacks with some indication of anti-LGBT bias are also apparently increasing. A shooting at a Columbia Heights IHOP Restaurant and a...
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More Felony Charges for Furr
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia on March 7 filed several new charges against Kenneth Furr. Furr, the Metropolitan Police Department officer...
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Town and Gown
One day, maybe D.C. will have another homegrown contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race. But for now, every weekend Town features Miss Tatiana, season two's third...
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With Marriage Done, Maryland Gender Identity Bill Gets a Senate Hearing
With marriage equality out of the way, transgender Marylanders are hoping there is enough goodwill — and enough time left in the 2012 legislative session...
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Trans Group Decries DC Police Chief for “Abdicating” Responsibilities, But Lanier Shoots Back
A local organization today accused Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier of “abdicating” her responsibility to keep transgender people safe, but Lanier retorted that the...
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Baltimore County Passes Gender-Identity Bill
The Baltimore County Council passed a transgender rights bill prohibiting discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity or expression on a...
