24-05-2025
D.C. queer bar vandalized in suspected hate crime during WorldPride
It was just after noon on Friday when Blair Nixon got the call. The queer bar he co-owned and managed, Sinners and Saints, had been broken into.
Nixon rushed to his bar in Adams Morgan in Northwest Washington. When he arrived, he stepped over the broken glass from the shattered front door and surveyed the damage: missing bottles of alcohol, the building's electricity shut off, the back door ajar. And, scrawled in black paint on the white wall, a homophobic slur.
