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Straight Sister of the LGBT Movement: NBJC's Sharon Lettman-Hicks discusses...
News: At first glance, Sharon Lettman-Hicks doesn't seem like your typical LGBT activist. For starters, she's a straight woman. She's married to a military husband. She proudly says she was raised with...
View ArticleVigil Honors Lost Transgender Lives: Community marks 10th annual Transgender...
News: Following a year that saw a spike in reported anti-transgender attacks, the Washington-area LGBT community held a vigil at the Metropolitan Community Church of Washington, D.C., Nov. 20 to mark...
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Activists Picket MPD and Prosecutors: Transgender Day of Action protesters...
News: More than 30 local activists representing a coalition of LGBT organizations protested in front of Metropolitan Police Department headquarters and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of...
View ArticleGolden Hour: Despite friction and a farewell, there are many reasons to give...
Opinion: It was the "golden hour" of late afternoon on Nov. 3 during the viewing for gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny when I walked outside the Carnegie Library for some fresh air. I had been greeting...
View ArticleThat Guy: Catching Fox News on a public TV screen can create an irresistible...
Opinion: For much of my life, I've tried hard not to be that guy. You know that guy, the one who has a number of sincerely held and generally laudable opinions and beliefs that unfortunately are always...
View ArticleOutspoken: Thanksgiving Foods: Take our quick survey on what Thanksgiving...
Dining:What Thanksgiving foods do you love? And where did you spend your Thanksgiving? We'd love to know! Click here to take survey ...more
View ArticleTake Our Muppets Poll! Win Free Movie Passes!: Who's your favorite Muppet? Is...
Film: Click here to tell us who your favorite Muppet is and enter for a chance to win free movie passes! ...more
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Frank Departure: Serving in Congress since the ''Reagan Revolution,'' out gay...
News: Barney Frank Photo by Chris Geidner Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) today told reporters in Newton, Mass., ''I will not be a candidate for re-election to the House of Representatives in 2012,''...
View ArticleMetro Weekly Poll: Herman Cain: Should Herman Cain withdraw from the race?
News: Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world's leading questionnaire tool. var host = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://secure." :...
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Coverboy: Fame: ''Love me or hate me, I'm still going to be the same,'' says...
Coverboy Interview: Fame grants that his name wasn't awarded to him by his parents. ''It was given to me by a friend because I was popular in the club scene.'' And it stuck. Everybody, he says, has...
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Flamenco Male Call: Edwin Aparicio puts the focus on men in flamenco
Dance: Edwin Aparicio is testing the waters, trying to shift perceptions about flamenco. ''American audiences are used to seeing the typical [flamenco] company with lots of girls with pretty dresses --...
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Over Sexed: Despite the buzz, Steve McQueen's ''Shame'' is not an innovative...
Film: In Shame, everything starts with a look. All sorts of possibilities exist in each one -- this time, maybe they'll do it pinned up against a wall, or from behind and bent over a chair, or standing...
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Love Shots: Tomer Heymann's doc, ''I Shot My Love',' about identity, family...
Film: It's tough to say what director Tomer Heymann wanted out of I Shot My Love, an hour-long documentary about identity, family and desire. He opens the film interviewing Noa, his sickly mother,...
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A Carol Christmas: The carol spirit hits the choral capital of the U.S.
Music: ''There are more choirs here per capita than any other city,'' says Amy Stahmer, executive director of the City Choir of Washington (301-572-6865, thecitychoirofwashington.org). In fact, D.C. is...
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Bonfire Night: Bill Cain's ''Equivocation'' is a fun and emotive evening...
Stage: He must be tickled: Just as Bill Cain's latest play, Equivocation, opens here in Washington, another Mr. Cain, this one a presidential hopeful, is ''attempting to tell the truth in difficult...
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News: CORRECTION: In the Nov. 24 feature, ''In Harm's Way,'' Sidney Nsubuga Enoch's sentence for murdering David Kato was incorrectly written as 10 years. The sentence was 30 years. ...more
View ArticleTwo Tours and a Transgender Bill: Soulforce readies for spring tour as George...
News: Equality Ride To Start New Nationwide Campaign The Soulforce Equality Ride, which has devoted its time battling in favor of equal rights and ending discrimination against LGBT people, has...
View ArticleGLOV To Present Awards: Center's anti-violence task force offers social and...
News: Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV), the District's primary LGBT anti-violence task force, will host a community social and fundraiser at the Duplex Diner at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 6 while...
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Couples Win Baltimore Benefits: Decision is latest victory for same-sex...
News: Even as two Baltimore County police officers became the latest to win equal employment benefits for their same-sex spouses last week, Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler (D) warned that...
View ArticleD.C. in the Red: Our left-leaning capital is making some right turns
Opinion: When I moved back East from Portland, Ore., I'd more or less had my fill of ''crunchiness.'' The guy I moved out there with had moved on from crew cut to white-boy dreads, from Eagle Scout to...
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