District of Columbia

WASHINGTON -- Offices of the Human Rights Campaign headquarters and a building that houses the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and several other prominent LGBT advocacy groups were evacuated Tuesday afternoon following a bomb scare. [ Read more → ]

The D.C. City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve an anti-bullying bill on first reading, with Council members expected to approve the measure in a final vote at their next session later this month. [ Read more → ]

WASHINGTON -- A 29-year-old gay man spoke to the Washington Blade on Tuesday through jaws wired shut to facilitate the healing of facial injuries brought about by a brutal beating that extended over several streets near his home in Columbia Heights on March 12. [ Read more → ]

D.C. police on Monday arrested a 27-year-old woman in connection with the March 11 shooting of a gay man at the International House of Pancakes restaurant in Columbia Heights that police listed as an anti-gay hate crime. [ Read more → ]

WASHINGTON -- One gay man has been shot, and another gay man and a transgender woman were badly beaten in two separate attacks earlier this week in the Columbia Heights neighbood in central D.C. [ Read more → ]

Former National Football League Commissioner Paul J. Tagliabue and his wife, Chandler Tagliabue, have donated $1 million to Georgetown University for the creation of a new program to assist LGBT students. [ Read more → ]

Police in Washington D.C. are investigating the murder of a 23-year-old transgender woman who was fatally shot during the early morning hours on Wednesday. [ Read more → ]

A Washington D.C. Human Rights Campaign store was vandalized in the late night or early hours of Wednesday by self-described “rowdy queers" who chose the date to coincide with the 42nd anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. [ Read more → ]

A grocery store employee at a Washington D.C.-area Safeway has been fired after directing an anti-gay slur at a same-sex couple last weekend. [ Read more → ]

A heterosexual student at George Washington University was beaten to within inches of his life earlier this week, after another heterosexual student mistook him for being gay. [ Read more → ]

The U.S. Supreme Court this week refused to hear the appeal of a group of clergy in Washington, D.C., who want to put the city’s new marriage equality law on the ballot. The denial of review appears to be the end of the line now for opponents of equal marriage rights in the nation's capital. [ Read more → ]

2011 will likely see a number of battles state by state across the country. Three states plus the District of Columbia are facing the prospect of losing marriage equality, an additional seven states could start the process of amending their state constitutions to ban marriage equality, five could gain marriage equality. [ Read more → ]

The District of Columbia's highest court has rejected yet another challenge to D.C.'s same-sex marriage law, ruling Thursday that opponents cannot ask voters to overturn it. The D.C. Court of Appeals rejected an appeal brought by Maryland pastor, Bishop Harry Jackson. [ Read more → ]

More than 14 percent of gay men in the District are HIV positive, almost five times as high as the overall rate for the city's adults and teenagers, according to a snapshot of the community released Thursday by the D.C. HIV/AIDS Administration. Interviews with 500... [ Read more → ]

The U.S. Senate has rejected an amendment to the health care reconciliation bill that would have stopped same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia until a referendum could be held. Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah), who has been relentless in his efforts to stop gay marriage... [ Read more → ]

Gay marriage came to the nation's capital this week, and the Washington Post has been fending off reader complaints for marking the occasion with a front page picture of two men kissing. [caption id="attachment_6941" align="aligncenter" width="474" caption="(Washington Post photo)"][/caption] The above photo of Jeremy Ames,... [ Read more → ]

Gay marriage has arrived in nation's capital. [caption id="attachment_6869" align="aligncenter" width="416" caption="Angelisa Young and Sinjoyla Townsend wed Tuesday in D.C. (Image: CNN)"][/caption] Same-sex couples began marrying in Washington D.C, on Tuesday, with some lining up as early as 3:30 a.m. to pick up their licenses... [ Read more → ]

At least 50 same-sex couples lined up to apply for marriage licenses when city offices opened Wednesday as gay marriage became legal in the nation's capital. [caption id="attachment_6715" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="Gwen Migita, left, and Cuc Vu, at D.C. SUperior Court Wednesday to apply for a... [ Read more → ]

The Archdiocese of Washington has changed its employee health care policy in the latest fallout from the District's decision to legalize same-sex marriage. As of Tuesday, Catholic Charities will no longer offer benefits to spouses of new employees or to spouses of current employees who... [ Read more → ]

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request late today to block the District of Columbia's gay marriage law from taking effect on Wednesday. Opponents of the law had asked the Supreme Court to step in and issue a temporary delay so they could hold a... [ Read more → ]