For Washingtonian magazine, a feature about the tragic and infuriating fall of one of DC’s trans legends, Casa Ruby founder Ruby Corado. This article was recently a finalist for a reporting award from the City and Regional Magazine Association.

The people who worked for and relied on Casa Ruby have been left to wonder how something that had inspired so much hope could go so terribly wrong. “Have you seen Inventing Anna on Netflix?” asks former Casa Ruby employee Tania Cordova, referring to the streaming series about convicted con artist Anna “Delvey” Sorokin, who posed as a German heiress and swindled more than $200,000. “That’s Ruby. We joke about ‘Inventing Ruby.’ ”