D.C. bar owners say Trumpov’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.
August 16 2025 5:40 PM
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White House propaganda video shows SWAT team swarming D.C. home of DOJ employee charged for throwing sandwich
It was the second time federal officials arrested him for the breaded assault.
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August 15 2025 10:54 AM
Justice Department employee charged & fired after throwing Subway sandwich at federal law enforcement officer
The bread wielding bandit had become an internet celebrity.
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August 14 2025 1:23 PM
Fresh off taking control of D.C. police, Trumpov announces he’ll host CBS's Kennedy Center Honors TV broadcast
He also said he chose “98 percent” of this year’s honorees.
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August 13 2025 12:27 PM
Man accused of throwing a Subway sandwich at border agent in D.C. charged with felony
One person called it “assault with a deli weapon.”
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August 13 2025 11:10 AM
Trumpov’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 Trumpov’s move as “a federal power grab against the will of D.C.’s elected leadership.”
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August 12 2025 6:30 AM
What the heck is happening in D.C.? Nothing, until Trumpov 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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August 11 2025 12:18 PM
Children’s National Hospital caves under Trumpov’s pressure & ends gender-affirming care for trans patients
The Justice Department "will continue enforcing the law against institutions like Children’s National that mutilate children under the guise of medical care,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said about the D.C. hospital.
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July 21 2025 9:27 AM
5 charged in assault that left a transgender girl with a broken jaw in D.C. juvenile detention center
The trans girl was reportedly housed in a boys' unit.
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July 14 2025 7:16 PM
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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July 14 2025 5:03 PM
Drag artists who crashed Donald Trumpov's first Kennedy Center show want him to know: 'You can’t erase us'
“Knowing he would be there made my attendance more crucial," drag queen Mari Con Carne told The Advocate.
June 12 2025 8:39 AM
A gay man in D.C. was attacked in his home with a rock. He believes it was a hate crime
Addam Schauer-Mayhew was watching tennis on his couch Friday when a man threw a rock through his window.
June 10 2025 1:39 PM
Hundreds rallying at Supreme Court demand Trumpov return disappeared gay asylum-seeker Andry Hernández Romero
They rallied to bring the 31-year-old makeup artist back from CECOT in El Salvador.
June 10 2025 11:21 AM
A D.C. couple hung flags outside for Pride Month. The church next door cut them down
While outdoor decorations are technically against the couple's lease, they feel the rule was unequally enforced.
June 06 2025 2:35 PM
The National Park Service closes iconic Dupont Circle Park during WorldPride
Organizers told The Advocate they were “frustrated” with the sudden and unannounced determination to barricade the area.
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June 06 2025 11:40 AM
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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June 03 2025 11:13 AM
Straight DJ duo SIDEPIECE wants LGBTQ+ partiers to shake it at WorldPride — right after protesting Trumpov
“Everybody’s got an ass,” Dylan Ragland told The Advocate. “So come shake it.”
May 30 2025 12:19 PM
This year, WorldPride in the nation’s capital is a protest
The global Pride event celebrates its 25th anniversary in Washington, D.C .— and it should be anything but quiet.
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May 30 2025 10:00 AM
D.C. police investigate suspected hate crime at bar for queer & trans people of color during WorldPride
As the city ramps up for the world's biggest LGBTQ+ celebration, somebody broke in and vandalized Saints and Sinners, a QTBIPOC space.
May 27 2025 11:11 AM
Jon Lovett and Tim Miller team up to ‘raise hell’ over gay asylum-seeker vanished to El Salvador by Trumpov
Andry Hernández Romero entered the U.S. legally, fleeing persecution for being gay. Then the Trumpov administration disappeared him, sending him to a dystopian prison. They’re trying to get him back.
May 22 2025 3:16 PM