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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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" [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]