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Outlaws in Love: AU's Rodger Streitmatter reads ''Outlaw Marriages,'' from...
Books: A former newspaper reporter and current American University School of Communication professor, Rodger Streitmatter knows plenty about research and writing. Considering his relationship with...
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There's No Place Like Pride: Attendees say celebration is about love,...
News: It's nearly summer and pride is in the air. Thousands of locals and out-of-town visitors lined up along the District's streets and crowded onto Pennsylvania Avenue to celebrate Capital Pride...
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News: SPLC Secures Equal Expression in Tennessee School District Following its May 17 letter to school authorities in Savannah, Tenn., the Southern Poverty Law Center reports that it has secured the...
View ArticleGlobal LGBT Briefs: From Russia with Grudge, to Uganda's Mugisha and soccer...
News: Moscow Authorities Ban Gay Pride For A Century After many attempts by LGBT activists to obtain permission to hold a gay pride parade, the Moscow City Court has officially denied LGBT parades for...
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Men's Summer Summits: Health providers and activists get their fill with...
News: Health activists, get ready for a busy July, because Washington will be playing the role of host city. With D.C. set to host the 19th Annual International AIDS Conference, aka AIDS 2012, from...
View ArticleFaith in Family: God bless the mother-in-law who tempers her Catholic devotion
Opinion: When I married my husband, I got a ceremony, a ring, a certificate, a honeymoon and a commitment. Oh! And a swell dinner at Restaurant Nora and a bottle of Dom Perignon. I also got a...
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Capital Pride Parade 2012 (video): Metro Weekly captures all the fun and...
Video: Thousands of people lined the streets of Washington, D. C. on Saturday, June 9, to see the spectacle of the 2012 Capital Pride Parade. Stepping off on P Street, winding through Dupont Circle and...
View ArticleBREAKING: Thorne-Begland Becomes Virginia's First Out Gay Judge: Former...
News: The openly gay prosecutor whose nomination for a judgeship was rejected by the Virginia General Assembly in May was temporarily appointed to Richmond General District Court today, making him the...
View ArticleWashington County, Md., to Offer Benefits: County will extend benefits to...
News: Lambda Legal, an LGBT legal organization, announced June 13 that Washington County, in Maryland's panhandle, will extend spousal benefits to county employees with spouses of the same sex. The...
View ArticleMayor Set To Sign: Gray sets June 22 ceremony to sign LGBT-inclusive...
News: Mayor Vincent Gray (D) has set a date, June 22, to sign the recently passed bill to combat bullying, intimidation and harassment of youth in D.C. schools, libraries, recreation centers and other...
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Crock Rock: ''Rock of Ages'' deserves a special place to suck on its own
Film: There are two kinds of people in this world: those who think hair metal is good, and those who realize it isn't. If you're allied with the former, Rock of Ages is probably something you want to...
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Scissor Sisters: 'Magic' Moves: Latest album is a stunner, while Gossip's...
Music: ''I'm gonna let you have it,'' the Scissor Sisters' Ana Matronic says halfway through Magic Hour. And on ''Let's Have A Kiki,'' the self-described drag queen-trapped-in-a-woman's body gives it...
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Young, Black and Leading the Way: Gay Men's Health Summit
Feature Story: Frank Walker thought his life's work was with the Chicago Cubs. ''Growing up I was such a huge Cubs fan, and all I wanted to do was work in the front office of the Cubs,'' Walker says....
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Message with an Edge: Gay Men's Health Summit
Feature Story: Daniel O'Neill and Brant Miller have a success story to share. At their Gay Men's Health Summit Workshop, ''Repackaging the Condom Question: Using Sexually Explicit Messaging to Inform...
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Coming to Terms: Mary Chapin Carpenter's ''Ashes and Roses'' follows the arc...
Music: ''And the world that I see is returning once more, to the world that I knew it be long before,'' Mary Chapin Carpenter sings on ''Fading Away.'' ''It had merged with your laugh, it had locked...
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Summit Strength: Advocate Christopher Dyer gets the conversation started...
Feature Story: As the District prepares for the XIX International AIDS Conference, aka AIDS 2012, locals are preparing a smaller gathering for the days just prior. And, though smaller, this Gay Men's...
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Magic Realism: 'Beasts of the Southern Wild': Behn Zeitlin has made a...
Film: I've never been to Louisiana. Not New Orleans, not Baton Rouge, not Grand Isle, not any of it. I can't begin to grasp what it's like to live there, and I won't pretend to know what Cajun culture...
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Fringe Follies: The Capital Fringe Festival offers a bit of everything
Stage: Over the next couple weeks you can see a theatrical spoof of Fox-TV's Glee, in which troublemakers are forced to form a comedy club. Also on tap is one man's take on The Princess Bride, and a...
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In Tune: Afro-Blue Vocal Band sings new life into a cappella music
Music: ''I think a lot of people weren't even sure what a cappella music was before The Sing Off,'' says Eliza Berkon. Berkon's D.C.-based a cappella group the Afro-Blue Vocal Band ended up placing...
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Networking for Women: Positive Women's Network brings the group's important...
News: Ahead of the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012), an Oakland, Calif.-based HIV/AIDS organization for women is partnering with the conference to advocate for research and strong, bold...
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