Over the next three weeks, leading up to the Capital Pride Festival, beginning on June 7, I will look at some of the sites connected with LGBT history on the Hill. We will start today with the place where many of my stories end: Congressional Cemetery. In the 1980s, at the height of the AIDS […]
Today, in an unsurprising 7-0 vote, the District’s Historic Preservation Review Board voted to add another building to its inventory of historic sites. Buildings on this list are, “deemed worthy of recognition and protection for their contribution to the cultural heritage” of Washington, according to the introduction to the 2009 list. At that time, there […]