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Transgender woman files complaint on Centreville spa
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A transgender woman complained to the Better Business Bureau about her experience at Spa World in Centreville. It's the company's response to that complaint - which has activists feeling steamed.
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DC forms bias crime partnership with prosecutors, LGBT community
District of Columbia officials are announcing a partnership between prosecutors, the mayor's office and the gay, lesbian and transgender community.
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Metro Weekly distribution boxes vandalized
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Pictures taken by Metro Weekly show boxes littered with banana peels and other garbage. In some cases, what appears to be animal or even human waste were also tossed inside the boxes.
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D.C. transgender awareness campaign launched
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The District of Columbia government is launching what it calls the nation's first government-sponsored campaign to promote awareness and understanding of transgender people.
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Floyd Corkins may have had second target
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FBI is investigating whether the alleged shooter in the Family Research Council incident had a second target in the District, according to the head of the group.
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LGBT community marches, demands end to hate crimes
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Washington's gay and lesbian community took a stand Thursday night, following a violent attack against a same-sex couple. Members of the community and their supporters, along with city officials, came out to march and demand an end to the violence.
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Thousands support LGBT community at Capital Pride parade, festival
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The festival on Saturday and Sunday for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their supporters dates back to 1975.
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Sarah Rutledge files bias claim against Maryland girls home
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The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown reports that Sarah Rutledge contends her supervisor at San Mar Children's Home in Boonsboro told her not to mention her wife at work. She claims the directive was part of a written improvement plan after Rutledge was put on probation in September.
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Will gay marriage survive in Maryland?
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One poll by the independent firm Opinion Works which found that 43 percent of Marylanders oppose same sex marriage while 40 percent would make it legal. But since 11 percent say they have no opinion or may not vote and 5 percent are undecided, it is a statistical dead heat.
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D.C. anti-gay crimes growing, but so is victims' resolve
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Leaders in the LGBT community say that a more cohesive movement against anti-gay crime in the D.C. metro area is taking shape in the wake of a series of very violent assaults and shootings.
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Protesters march after attacks on D.C.'s LGBT community
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In light of the recent series, members of the LGBT community are showing their support with a silent march through the various spots where the attacks took place.
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President Obama raising money from gay, lesbian donors
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President Barack Obama tells gay and lesbian supporters--who paid $35,800 each to see him speak Thursday night--that there's more work to do to ensure fairness for all.
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'L-Word' actress kicked off airplane - says kiss was brief and modest
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It was cursing - not kissing - that got a lesbian actress and her girlfriend escorted off a plane as it sat at a Texas airport, Southwest Airlines said Tuesday.
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FDA considers easing ban on gay blood donors
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Gay men have been banned from giving blood since 1977 because of worries about their high rate of HIV. Now that the virus is more easily detected in blood donations, the FDA is reconsidering.
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Sibley Memorial Hospital discriminated lesbian couple, councilmembers say
CommentThree council members urged a hospital to change how it treats gay and lesbian couples after a case where they believe hospital staff discriminated a lesbian mother.
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Giffords intern throws first pitch on gay night at Nats Park
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At an event for the area’s gay community, the intern who helped save the congresswoman’s life was celebrated.
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After student's suicide: Anti-bullying workshop at Maryland high school
CommentAiden Rivera Schaeff committed suicide last year after he was bullied for being transgender. His former high school held a workshop Thursday to keep his story from being repeated.
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