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Unhinged Nancy Mace attacks D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser over race, gender & LGBTQ+ businesses in House hearing

"I’m a woman. You’re looking at one,” Bowser shot back at one point.

D.C. bar owners say Trump’s federal law enforcement crackdown is killing their business

“This is not sustainable,” Dave Perruzza, a gay business owner in D.C., told The Advocate.

Trump’s ‘dictator-like’ D.C. takeover is an assault on democracy, critics warn

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C.’s non-voting representative in Congress, condemned Trump’s move as “a federal power grab against the will of D.C.’s elected leadership.”

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What the heck is happening in D.C.? Nothing, until Trump deployed the National Guard

Here's what you need to know about what's happening — and what's not happening — in D.C.

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Donald Trump orders authoritarian takeover of Washington, D.C.

The president made the announcement from the White House press briefing room.

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Transgender woman who escaped Alabama for her safety beaten & left for dead near National Mall in D.C.

Cayla Calhoun left Alabama seeking safety as a trans woman. Instead, she was nearly killed on D.C.’s streets, and now she refuses to stay silent.

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BREAKING: National Park Service won’t close D.C.’s Dupont Circle during WorldPride after all, officials say

The federal agency previously said it would close off the iconic LGBTQ+ area because of "vandalism" concerns.

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D.C. WorldPride organizers warn transgender visitors to the U.S. of potential travel risks

The organizers are responding to concerns from international travelers under the second Trump administration.

Sheldon 'Turner' Freeman, gay D.C. librarian and activist, dead at 64

Freeman started a Black History Month film series and LGBTQ-inclusive programs in the Washington, D.C., library system.