Whois & Analysis for washingtonblade.com

The Washington Blade is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) newspaper in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

The Blade is the oldest LGBT newspaper in the United States and third largest by circulation, behind the Philadelphia Gay News and the Gay City News of New York City.

The Blade is often referred to as America's gay newspaper of record because it chronicled LGBT news locally, nationally, and internationally.

The New York Times said the Blade is considered "one of the most influential publications written for a gay audience.".

Transgender people are people who have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex.

Transgender people are sometimes called transsexual if they desire medical assistance to transition from one sex to another.

Transgender is also an umbrella term: in addition to including people whose gender identity is the opposite of their assigned sex (trans men and trans women), it may include people who are not exclusively masculine or feminine (people who are genderqueer, e.g. bigender, pangender, genderfluid, or agender).

Other definitions of transgender also include people who belong to a third gender, or conceptualize transgender people as a third gender.

Infrequently, the term transgender is defined very broadly to include cross-dressers, regardless of their gender identity.

LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.

In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s.

Activists believed that the term gay community did not accurately represent all those to whom it referred.

Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females, or romantic or sexual attraction to people of any sex or gender identity; this latter aspect is sometimes alternatively termed pansexuality.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as "Washington", "the District", or simply "D.C.", is the capital of the United States.