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1 day ago | 
washingtonblade.com | Lou Chibbaro Jr.
D.C. police are seeking help from the public in identifying a male suspect whose image was captured by a video surveillance camera after he allegedly shouted anti-gay slurs and threatened to assault a man at 6th and H Streets, N.W. on March 20 at about 9:54 p.m.A police report says the victim told police the incident took place shortly after he exited the nearby Capital One Arena where he had attended a Washington Capitals hockey game.
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1 day ago | 
washingtonblade.com | Lou Chibbaro Jr.
The Wanda Alston Foundation, the D.C.-based organization that has provided housing and support services for homeless LGBTQ youth since its founding in 2008, announced it has appointed longtime LGBTQ rights advocate Cesar Toledo as its new executive director.
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1 day ago | 
washingtonblade.com | Lou Chibbaro Jr.
John Reid, a conservative gay radio talk show host in Richmond for many years, this week secured the Republican nomination for the office of lieutenant governor in Virginia, becoming the first known openly gay person to be nominated for a statewide office in that state. Reid secured the nomination after his only rival in the Republican primary, Fairfax County Supervisor Pat Herrity, dropped out of the race this week for health reasons.
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6 days ago | 
washingtonblade.com | Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Dale Edwin Sanders, an attorney who practiced law in D.C. and Northern Virginia for more than 40 years and is credited with playing a key role in providing legal services for people living with HIV/AIDS beginning in the early 1980s, died April 10 at the age of 75. His brother, Wade Sanders, said the cause of death was a heart attack that occurred at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore shortly after he had back surgery.
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6 days ago | 
washingtonblade.com | Lou Chibbaro Jr.
With dozens of tourists watching, a little over two dozen LGBTQ activists walked in a circular picket line carrying “homosexual rights” signs on the sidewalk in front of the White House on April 17 in a reenactment of the historic 1965 first gay rights protest outside the White House.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonblade.com | Lou Chibbaro Jr.
D.C. police just after 1 a.m. on April 10 arrested two men for allegedly assaulting and robbing a gay man inside a CVS store at 1418 P St., N.W., according to a police report and charging documents filed in D.C. Superior Court. The charging documents state that the alleged assault and robbery occurred a short time after the three men “exchanged words” at the gay bar Number 9, which is located across the street from the CVS.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonblade.com | Lou Chibbaro Jr.
The months and days leading up to June are especially busy for LGBTQ Washingtonians. For one group, the DC LGBT Budget Coalition, which works year-round to ensure LGBTQ residents are represented and financially supported by the D.C. government, this time of year is their Super Bowl. Beginning in April, the D.C. Council and Mayor’s Office hold budget hearings for the next fiscal year.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonblade.com | Lou Chibbaro Jr.
A final push to raise money and fill D.C. hotel rooms is underway with WorldPride 2025 just over a month away. The Capital Pride Alliance, the D.C.-based group that’s organizing WorldPride 2025 in the nation’s capital that’s scheduled to take place May 17-June 8 launched what it says is one of several fundraising campaigns in a full-page ad in the Washington Post on April 1.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtonblade.com | Lou Chibbaro Jr.
D.C.’s Capital Jewish Museum has announced plans to open a special exhibition called “LGBT Jews in the Federal City” on May 16 that will remain at the museum at 575 3rd St., N.W. until Jan. 4, 2026. “This landmark exhibition explores a turbulent century of celebration, activism, and change in the nation’s capital led by D.C.’s LGBTQ+ Jewish community,” according to a statement released by the museum.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtonblade.com | Lou Chibbaro Jr.
D.C.’s Capital Jewish Museum has announced plans to open a special exhibition called “LGBT Jews in the Federal City” on May 16 that will remain at the museum at 575 3rd St., N.W. until Jan. 4, 2026. “This landmark exhibition explores a turbulent century of celebration, activism, and change in the nation’s capital led by D.C.’s LGBTQ+ Jewish community,” according to a statement released by the museum.
