Dining Out for Life 2012: Guide to charity-giving restaurants
Feature Story: Food is universal. We have the technology to reduce our necessary daily intake of calories to a few ounces of liquid. That might be an amazingly efficient route to giving bodies what...
View ArticleNational LGBT News Briefs: Campus, Catholics and Cops: Bathroom politics hit...
News: Pitt Bathroom Policy Contradicts City/County Nondiscrimination Codes A University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) facilities policy contradicts that of the city and county in which the university is...
View ArticleGlobal LGBT News Briefs: Ads and Infection: London mayor bans ''conversion...
News: London Mayor Bans ''Conversion Therapy'' Bus Ads Advertisements promoting ''conversion therapy'' – which claims to make gay people straight – scheduled to run on some of London's major bus routes...
View ArticleBroadway Rock: Gavin Creel's stunning new album offers far more than just...
Music: Gavin Creel is a two-time Tony-nominated actor (Hair, Thoroughly Modern Millie), who's currently gearing up to star in the national tour of The Book of Mormon. But if you expect only sweet,...
View ArticleMercy McKay: Compassionate cabaret/pop artist Nellie McKay has displayed...
Music: ''I often think, 'Where's Rosie when you need her?''' laughs Nellie McKay. Rosie O'Donnell was nowhere to be found last year, after the New York-based cabaret/pop artist McKay performed a couple...
View ArticleGLAA Celebrates 41st Anniversary: Longest-running LGBT advocacy organization...
News: The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C. (GLAA), the nation's oldest continuously running gay rights advocacy organization, will mark its 41st anniversary with an April 26...
View ArticleSweet 16 in Dupont: Youth Pride Day returns to the circle for 2012
News: While Youth Pride Day may have gotten its start in Dupont Circle, there was much more room out of the way down at P Street Beach. Marking the 15th anniversary of the Youth Pride Alliance's annual...
View ArticleSigns of Life for Anti-Bullying Initiatives in D.C.: City Council prepares to...
News: A City Council bill aimed at preventing physical and electronic forms of harassment, intimidation and bullying in District schools, libraries, parks and recreation centers – introduced more than...
View ArticleMarriage Matters: Celebrating gay weddings can teach us important things...
Opinion: Internalized homophobia is commonplace. You could say it's the result of powerful marketing – repeated catch phrases, sermons and punditry reinforcing a notion that gay people are somehow...
View ArticleHIV Bills Moving Swiftly in D.C.: Catania legislation aims to increase...
News: Two bills designed to increase awareness and promote a dialogue on HIV/AIDS between patients and service providers are closer to becoming law after being passed on consent – meaning without any...
View ArticleStick in the Eye: LGBT people understand political pragmatism, but not why...
Opinion: Whether or not we are hard-core political junkies, most of us in the LGBT community share some common understandings about politics as it relates to our lives. We know that the stances and...
View ArticleCloser to Home: Finalizing its bid to secure space in the Reeves Center, The...
News: David Mariner is on the verge of happiness. Just about 50 signatures away, actually. ''If we get 500 signatures, I'll be very happy,'' says Mariner, executive director of The DC Center, D.C.'s...
View ArticleLGBT Rally Draws Tiny Crowd in D.C.: With no major backing, local iteration...
News: Despite low attendance, participants in today's rally for LGBT civil rights – part of the Let's Reach One Million People LGBTQIA Equality Campaign – said their overall message remains important...
View ArticleCoverboy: Dustin: Coloring outside the lines
Coverboy Interview: A professional photographer with traditional roots, Dustin has a nontraditional outlook on life. The Louisiana-born, Florida-raised Southern boy living in Rockville likes to buck...
View ArticleMarine Killed in Possible Hate Crime: Police say suspect, also a Marine, used...
News: A Marine from Camp Lejeune, N.C., was fatally stabbed in Southeast Washington early Saturday, April 21, following an altercation with another Marine who allegedly used a homophobic slur before...
View ArticleUnderstanding the EEOC Process:
News: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is the agency charged with enforcing federal antidiscrimination law. Both federal and private employees, or applicants, can find their claims...
View ArticleA Woman's Fight, a Couple's Resilience:
News: Mia Macy is a veteran and police officer, married to the woman she met in her teens, who wanted to take a job as a ballistics technician for the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and...
View ArticleTransgender Breakthrough: EEOC ruling that gender-identity discrimination is...
News: An employer who discriminates against an employee or applicant on the basis of the person's gender identity is violating the prohibition on sex discrimination contained in Title VII of the Civil...
View ArticleUPDATED: Marine Killed in Possible Hate Crime: Witnesses say fellow Marine...
News: A Marine from Camp Lejeune, N.C., was fatally stabbed in Southeast Washington early Saturday, April 21, following an altercation with another Marine who allegedly used a homophobic slur before...
View ArticleHayes Honors Gays: The LGBT community was well-represented at annual Helen...
Stage: The 28th Annual Helen Hayes Awards, held Monday, April 23, at the Warner Theatre, opened with ''Hello'' from last year's Broadway sensation The Book of Mormon. ''It doesn't matter if you're...
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