� Lou Chibbaro Jr. has reported on the LGBT civil rights movement and the LGBT community for more than 30 years, beginning as a freelance writer and later as a staff reporter and currently as Senior News Reporter for the Washington Blade. He has chronicled LGBT-related developments as they have touched on a wide range of social, religious, and governmental institutions, including the White House, Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court, the military, local and national law enforcement agencies and the Catholic Church. Chibbaro has reported on LGBT issues and LGBT participation in local and national elections since 1976. He has covered the AIDS epidemic since it first surfaced in the early 1980s. � Google

Mayor, Council members celebrate GLAA’s anniversary

President Miguel Tuason, Rick Rosendall, and GLAA co-founder Paul Kuntzler each paid tribute to Kameny’s role in the city’s and the nation’s LGBT rights movement

May 4, 2012 | Comments Off

Latino LGBT community center to open in D.C.

Casa Ruby to provide services, welcoming ‘home’ in Columbia Heights

May 2, 2012 | 4 Comments

D.C. Council gives preliminary approval of anti-bullying bill

Passes unanimously on first reading, expected to fully pass later this month

May 1, 2012 | Comments Off

Gray nominates two transgender women to Human Rights Commission

If confirmed, they would become first transgender persons serving on commission

April 30, 2012 | 2 Comments

Victory Fund backs gay man for school board

Dupont Circle ANC member Jack Jacobson seeks a seat on the D.C. State Board of Education

April 26, 2012 | 1 Comment

D.C. anti-bullying bill clears key vote

Training requirement eliminated to cut cost of measure

April 26, 2012 | Comments Off

‘Worldwide’ LGBT marches fizzle

Only 14 demonstrators turn out in D.C.

April 25, 2012 | 9 Comments

Marine charged with killing another Marine after anti-gay slur claims self-defense

Judge orders defendant held without bail; finds probable cause

April 24, 2012 | 3 Comments

Marine calls fellow Marine anti-gay slur, stabs him to death near 8th St. barracks

D.C. police report says incident wasn’t a hate crime

April 23, 2012 | 6 Comments

Stein Club endorses McDuffie in Ward 5 Council race

April 22, 2012 | 5 Comments