� 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

Can the LGBT vote rescue Mendelson?

In shocker, pro-gay incumbent trails after ‘political identity theft’

September 1, 2010 | 3 Comments

Gay journalists to face union picket line

NLGJA declines to move annual convention

September 1, 2010 | 20 Comments

An interview with Vincent Gray

Gray promises to fight hate crimes, AIDS

August 26, 2010 | Comments Off

D.C. campaign notebook

Mayoral candidate calls for putting HIV status on driver’s licenses & more

August 26, 2010 | 5 Comments

Mendelson could face 2nd gay challenger

Moch seeks Green Party nod in race

August 20, 2010 | 3 Comments

Mayor promises greater visibility in LGBT community

Says hate crimes ‘being taken more seriously’

August 19, 2010 | 12 Comments

Bloomberg defends Fenty on gay marriage

'You should have a right to marry anybody you want'

August 17, 2010 | 9 Comments

Appeals court stays Prop 8 ruling

Same-sex marriages in Calif. on hold during appeal

August 17, 2010 | 8 Comments

Trans woman sexually assaulted near Dupont Circle

Report marks neighborhood's seventh incident against LGBT people since June

August 17, 2010 | 14 Comments

Murder suspect claims self-defense

Police say gay man stabbed 30 times, doused in bleach

August 17, 2010 | 18 Comments