Kato Honor, Banking Request: Gay Jamaican activist wins inaugural Kato award,...
News: Award launched in honor of David Kato Jamaican gay-rights activist Maurice Tomlinson has been named the initial recipient of the annual David Kato Vision & Voice Award. Tomlinson, a legal...
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The Pride of Thomas Roberts: The out MSNBC news anchor will be in DC this...
Feature Story: Nearly six years ago, MSNBC's Thomas Roberts told attendees at the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association that he was gay. It was, he says, something his friends, family and...
View ArticleParker and Prosecution: Lesbian judge declines straight marriages, while...
News: Lesbian Judge Won't Marry Opposite-Sex Couples A Dallas County, Texas, judge has announced in February that she will no longer provide marriage licenses to heterosexual couples until same-sex...
View ArticleCapehart vs. Christie: Persuasive poise should trump bombastic bullying
Opinion: The dirty secret about bullying is that it is more popular than most of us care to admit. Many adults believe that a bullying victim must learn to fight back, and do not intervene. There is...
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Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin: ''We Need to Talk About Kevin'' is an...
Film: Film doesn't get much grimmer than We Need To Talk About Kevin. It's an utterly bleak, astonishing piece of work that demands your attention just as you hope to look away. It's horrific in the...
View ArticleHigher Dread: Not content to grouse about gays, Santorum expands the culture...
Opinion: Whether you breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday night when Rick Santorum lost in Michigan or a sigh of disappointment that he didn't take out Mitt Romney, it's pretty clear we're going to have...
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View ArticleCendana Shooting for Charlotte: 2011 Next Generation winner vying for a spot...
News: The 2012 Democratic National Convention may be half a year away – kicking off Sept. 3 in Charlotte, N.C. – but the time for D.C. Democrats to pick their convention delegates is now. Tomorrow,...
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Coverboy: René: From bullied to baker, and craving attention
Coverboy Interview: There was a time when René, 21, growing up in Aurora, Ill., was in the shadows, suffering the bullies in elementary and middle school. Then he discovered martial arts and entered...
View ArticleWhat is your favorite Fran Drescher performance?: Take our poll. Enter to win...
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Rise of the Griffin: As Chad Griffin prepares to take over at HRC in June,...
News: ''I truly believe, unlike any other issue, whatever it takes to win we will do, and we will not cut a single corner,'' Chad Griffin said. In May 2011, two years after having launched a federal...
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Whitman-Walker Touts Growth, Fiscal Health: Community health center expected...
News: Whitman-Walker Health, the local community health center specializing in the treatment of HIV/AIDS and LGBT health care, announced Monday that it is projecting an operating gain of more than $2.6...
View ArticleShowdown at Stein: Sekou Biddle, Vincent Orange split LGBT Democrats support
News: Former Councilmember Sekou Biddle (D-At Large) and sitting Councilmember Vincent Orange (D-At Large), who replaced Biddle in an April 2011 special election, sparred over their positions on LGBT...
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Deal Reached After DOJ Joins Bullying Lawsuit: Five-year consent decree aims...
News: ''I made change for kids that aren't strong enough to make change," Dylon Frei, an out gay student in the Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota, told reporters on Tuesday morning, March 6....
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Athletic Supporters: Team DC's fashion show ultimately supports LGBT student...
Events: 2011 Team DC Fashion Show (Photo by Julian Vankim) Years ago, a model passed out onstage at Team DC's Fashion Show. ''He hadn't eaten that day because he thought he was too fat – which, of...
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Town and Gown: This month Town welcomes two of the strongest contestants on...
Clublife: One day, maybe D.C. will have another homegrown contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race. But for now, every weekend Town features Miss Tatiana, season two's third runner up. This month, however, the...
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Good Wood: Mautner Project chooses the organization's Volunteer of the Year
Feature Story: As an associate broker at D.C.'s City Houses, it's no wonder that Ed Wood volunteers some of his time professionally, serving on the board of the D.C. Association of Realtors and...
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Making a Splash: Judy Dlugacz has taken the Olivia brand from local lesbian...
Feature Story: It's March 1, and Judy Dlugacz – '''de-loo'-gatch,' it's very common in Poland'' – is getting ready for a party. She's got a day to wait for her 60th birthday blowout at The Washington...
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Mars Barred: Awkward and inconsequential, ''John Carter'' tries to pass...
Film: Based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs story that debuted in a pulp magazine 100 years ago, John Carter is a very expensive movie. If there's any other reason why the movie was evacuated from the...
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Musical Theater Band: The pop/rock group GrooveLily writes its own musicals
Music: ''She was certain that I was gay, because I was in New York to study musical theater and I was playing piano [at a gay bar] on Christopher Street,'' says Brendan Milburn. But Milburn convinced...
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