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Pop-Up Books: The DC Center's OutWrite offers a pop-up gay bookstore

Books: Next weekend, D.C. gets its own pop-up gay bookstore. "We are temporarily taking over the empty storefront right next to the center,'' explains The DC Center's David Mariner. ''There are so many...

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National LGBT Briefs: Heartland Horror, Massachusetts Mensch And Marriage...

News: Apparent Lincoln Hate Crime Stirs Community Community members are rallying around a Lincoln, Neb., woman following a Sunday, July 22, home invasion during which, she says, three masked attackers...

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World LGBT Briefs: Women on the Verge: Liberian President Sirleaf says she...

News: Liberian Legislature Takes Up Anti-Gay Bills  While the Liberian House of Representatives considers a bill to make sex between people of the same gender a first-degree felony, the country's...

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A Progressive Pushes Back: Karen Gautney hopes to become the first lesbian...

News: Karen Gautney has always been a fighter. And bullies – whether neighborhood troublemakers or legislators in Richmond – don't scare her. A lesbian resident of the commonwealth, Gautney is running...

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Boy Scout Fallout: Opponents rally after Boy Scouts uphold gay ban

News: Pressure is mounting on the Boy Scouts of America in the wake of the organization's decision last week to uphold a ban on out gay members and leaders. Thousands have lent their names to multiple...

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Keeping Up with AIDS 2012: Conference continues in the convention center, in...

News: Though the official start for the XIX International AIDS Conference – marking the conference's return to the U.S. after a 22-year absence due to the now-repealed HIV travel ban – was Sunday...

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Pro Homo: Sally Ride's posthumous coming out raises questions about where the...

Opinion: I've been a professional homosexual since 1993. I don't mean that I was an escort, although that probably would have paid better than my job at Whitman-Walker making sure that escorts and...

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Caution and Optimism: AIDS 2012 highlights challenges, but also successes to...

Opinion: Having worked for many years to address the AIDS epidemic, especially among gay and bisexual men, I find it enormously inspiring to see thousands of medical providers, researchers, activists...

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Partisan Pride?: Critics take aim at Pentagon decision to permit military...

News: For the first time since the end of ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell,'' active-duty servicemembers were granted permission to march in full uniform in an LGBT pride parade – specifically, San Diego's on...

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Maryland Signatories Subjected to Spotlight: Gay paper puts those advocating...

News: Bernard Bundy Jr. had a bad feeling in his stomach the morning of July 25. Bundy, who lives in Alexandria but was raised in Maryland, was looking at a just-posted list of names of people who had...

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Fight Back: 'Vito' on HBO: A documentary as vibrant and argumentative as its...

TV: Some people are lucky enough to make a small difference in the world they live in. And some people are stubborn, angry and committed enough to make a huge difference in the world we all live in....

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A Queen's Hidden Treasures: A selection of exhibits on permanent display...

Feature Story: 1. Dorothy's Ruby SlippersSmithsonian National Museum of American History 2. Hope Diamond and National Gem CollectionSmithsonian National Museum of Natural History Salon Doré 3. Salon...

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The IMAX Factor: When it comes to 60-foot tall IMAX screens, look to the...

Feature Story: Movies are larger than life. When a film is projected onto the big screen, characters become gargantuan to our puny little eyes. They're above us, towering over audiences, asserting...

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From Europe, With Culture: Seven European Exhibits You Should Not Miss

Feature Story: A visit to Europe is certain to satiate any artistic or historical craving you may have. European museums, in particular, are temples to the greatness of its people, not only of their...

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The World in Washington: National Geographic Museum puts it all in reach

Feature Story: There is a sort of magical portal at the corner of M and 17th Streets NW. Step away from the street traffic and the noise, and the National Geographic Society welcomes you into exhibits...

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Now On Display: Select exhibitions at DC area museums

Feature Story: AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM 800 Key Highway Baltimore 410-244-1900 avam.org All Things Round: Galaxies, Eyeballs & Karma – This 17th annual, thematic mega-exhibition features over...

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Building Home: The National Building Museum is not your average museum and...

Feature Story: The dog days of summer just may be the best time to check out the many museums Washington has to offer. By this time of year, the tour groups flooding the federal core and vicinity since...

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Sizzling Sidewalks: From Waverly to Washington, MidCity Welcomes Dog Days

Events: Think of Tennessee and what comes to mind? Dollywood? Maybe you should think of sidewalk sales. After all, it was such a sale in tiny Waverly that served as the inspiration for the MidCity Dog...

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Breaking Through the Ceiling: Lesbian-owned businesses are part of the...

Business: For many years, women in business often spoke of the ''glass ceiling,'' that proverbial barrier that only allowed women to rise so far as business owners and executives before being barred...

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