Columbia Heights

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.

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.

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.