Horoscope: April 5, 2012
Horoscope: Heavenly Round-Up: You're ready to look for the light at the end of the tunnel. You're on the brink of cracking the code and going on the offensive. You're moving forward without the stress...
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Spiderspoof: Landless Theatre Company spoofs the musical ''Spider-Man''
Stage: ''It seems like a lot of theaters take themselves a little too seriously,'' says Mickey DaGuiso. That's certainly not true of Landless Theatre, the company the gay actor and music director is...
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A Woman Alone: 'Strange Interlude': Shakespeare Theatre Company masterfully...
Stage: In the pantheon of social types, there have always been the over-qualified and under-employed. These are the alphas that, never quite launching, end up using their iron wills and formidable...
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Kahn Bravura!: The applause began when Michael Kahn joined the Shakespeare...
Feature Story: Ask Michael Kahn if he's happy and here's the response you'll likely get: "Last night, I was walking around the house and I said to myself, 'Are you happy?'" muses Kahn, seated in the...
View ArticleLGBT National Briefs: Campus and Coffee: California schools considering...
News: COLLEGES MAY ASK STUDENTS ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATION/GENDER IDENTITY California state institutions of higher education are considering adding some questions to applications or enrollment forms, the...
View ArticleLGBT News Briefs: Pageant and Parish: Transgender beauty contestant in Canada...
News: Beauty Pageant Hopeful Takes on Miss Universe Over Gender Identity Jenna Talackova, 23, spoke on Tuesday, alongside celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, about her ordeal of being kicked out of, then...
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Incumbency Trumps in DC and Maryland: Amid light turnout, voters stick with...
News: As with District residents writ large, D.C.'s LGBT community shouldn't expect any major changes in its collective relationship with the city's elected officials. With results nearly wrapped, but...
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Dancing through Wonderland: The Washington Ballet's forthcoming ''Alice'' is...
Dance: ''It's a big one,'' says Septime Webre, ''a really loud, wild dream.'' The artistic director of the Washington Ballet isn't joking about the brand-new production Alice (in Wonderland), which is...
View ArticleWhen in Rome: Away from home, your mores take a backseat to local law
Opinion: Vacations are supposed to be a time to relax, recharge or let loose. A holiday trek may also be highly educational. Certainly, that was the case for Dennis Jay Mayer and his partner, John...
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Our Little Girl: Coming out as parents of a transgender child was our way to...
Opinion: We are the parents of a transgender child, Jackie. And we decided to tell our family's story on television, in the April broadcast of the national public television newsmagazine series In the...
View ArticleSay What We Mean: Seeking to be inclusive by using ''LGBT'' rather than...
Opinion: So Tony Perkins, the longtime bigoted mouthpiece for the rabidly anti-gay Family Research Council, was rather apoplectic this past week over the news that a soldier in Afghanistan raised a...
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Coverboy: Robert: Family man meets gypsy dancer
Coverboy Interview: Robert, 25, is one Buffalo, N.Y., native who actually can ''Shuffle Off to Buffalo.'' As a professional dancer, that's kid stuff. ''Shuffling off'' is actually something he's...
View ArticleWhich Shakespeare play is your favorite?: Take our poll. Enter to win an XBox...
Poll: // Read our interview with Michael Kahn, Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company. ...more
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Checked Out: Gay man claims hostile environment at the Library of Congress...
News: On one hand, the Library of Congress is the institution that houses a large portion of the late gay-rights icon Frank Kameny's legacy – despite criticism from anti-gay activists. It's a federal...
View ArticlePrivilege Matters: Trivializing gay support for the family of Trayvon Martin...
Opinion: That I've had a lot of experience of casual racism doesn't come as much of a surprise given my rural Southern background. I grew up surrounded by pickup trucks festooned with Confederate flag...
View ArticleCarson Hearing Rescheduled: Preliminary hearing for suspect in IHOP shooting...
News: The preliminary hearing for a woman accused of shooting a member of the LGBT community at an IHOP Restaurant in Columbia Heights was continued and rescheduled when she didn't arrive in time for...
View ArticleAdventure Theatre celebrates 60 years of cute-themed theater:
Stage: Last year, the Adventure Theatre won its first-ever Helen Hayes Award for the show If You Give a Pig a Pancake. This summer, the children's theater company presents celebrated local gay actor...
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Street Wise: Cyndee Clay constantly walks the intersection of society and...
Feature Story: Growing up in suburban Maryland, the most dangerous element in young Cyndee Clay's life may have been going to public school. Hers was a conservative Mormon upbringing. Today, as the...
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Rent Boy: Anthony Rapp, one of the first openly gay leading men on Broadway,...
Music: ''When I do events or concerts, most of the fans that stay afterwards are female,'' says Anthony Rapp. ''It's not like it's a secret.'' Nope, it's no secret at all -- Anthony Rapp has been out...
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