Global LGBT Briefs: Jubilation in Entebbe, Marriage-Minded in France and Oz:...
News: Activists Arrested, But Uganda Pride a Success Despite arrests, some participants of Uganda's first LGBT Pride festival say the inaugural event was a relative success, Gay Star News reports. The...
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HRC Cash To Aid Marriage-Equality Campaigns: Even with marriage equality...
News: Money makes the world go 'round. And extra dollars fuel the fight for equality. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest LGBT civil rights organization, announced Aug. 6 it would...
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Platform in Play: News Analysis: A marriage-equality plank in the Democratic...
News: When news broke early last week that the Democratic Party had taken a giant step toward endorsing marriage equality as part of their national platform – with the 15-person committee responsible...
View ArticleHater, Heal Thyself: At some point, that fault you find in others is your own
Opinion: Bryon Widner is the subject of a recent documentary, Erasing Hate. Widner, once a racist skinhead, tattooed himself to make his disposition clear. The documentary follows his hours of painful...
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Queer the Smear: No matter how much we watch our own words, some hateful...
Opinion: It is absolutely no secret that I have a foul mouth, a propensity for profanity that goes beyond those within earshot and often ends up screaming across computer screens. During the recent...
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Apple Approves D.C. Condom App: DC Center's HIV Working Group releases iPhone...
News: Out of condoms and lube? There's an app for that. Apple Inc., maker of the iPhone, recently approved a new mobile application – commonly called an ''app'' – that uses an interactive GPS map to...
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''We Shall Not Be Moved'' Rally and Safety Walk in D.C. (video): March...
Video: DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier (Photo by Aram Vartian) In an action organized by LGBT activists Amy Loudermilk and Nick T. McCoy, more than 60 concerned residents converged at Big Bear Cafe in the...
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Coverboy: Sedric: Party Animal
Coverboy Interview: If you want to get with this week's Coverboy, you'd better grab some energy drinks and your dancing shoes, because 22-year-old Sedric describes himself as a ''party animal.''...
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D.C. Ward 5 Residents Rally Against Violence: Community members march through...
News: In a world where silence sometimes equals complicity, the residents of Bloomingdale and Eckington made their voices heard the evening of Aug. 9. Marching to chants of ''Fired up! Won't take no...
View ArticleThe DC Center Earns Excellence Award: D.C.'s LGBT community center honored...
News: DC Concerned Providers Coalition (DCCP), an organization that seeks to decrease infection rates of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases among D.C.-area young men of color who have sex with...
View ArticleAtlantic Cup Tourney Returns: Whether the tennis trophy itself will come back...
News: Anthony Phuong is hoping for a homecoming. He's missed the Atlantic Cup. Not to be confused with the Atlantic Cup of sailing, soccer, football or rugby, the Atlantic Cup Phuong wants to welcome...
View ArticleFrederick, Md., Chick-fil-A Vandalized: Store windows covered in...
News: A Frederick, Md., Chick-fil-A store was vandalized Saturday night, Aug. 11, when stickers promoting marriage equality, a gay pride flag and several homemade signs were adhered to the fast-food...
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Romney Taps Ryan: Anti-gay positions enforced with Wisconsin rep. as vp pick
News: At a morning rally Aug. 11 in Virginia, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney introduced Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate. It seemed as soon as the...
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Gay Man Killed in Baltimore Shooting: City's Mount Vernon neighborhood shaken...
News: One gay man was killed and another man was critically injured in a shooting in Baltimore's Mount Vernon neighborhood in the early morning hours of Friday, Aug. 10. The deceased has been...
View ArticleLaw Takes Aim at Westboro Baptist: New federal law restricting protests at...
News: A bill signed into law earlier this week just made life a bit more difficult for members of the Westboro Baptist Church. President Barack Obama signed the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring...
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Review: 'Persona Arena 4': PA4's mashup of role-playing and street brawler is...
Games: Genre-mashups aren't exactly a new thing in video games. Developers, just as movie directors and novelists do, will cheerfully borrow any idea that injects new gameplay experiences into a...
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Abstract Influence: The Corcoran displays ''extremely influential'' abstract...
Art: ''To me, it's one of the finest series of American paintings made during the 20th century,'' says the Corcoran's Philip Brookman, referring to the late Richard Diebenkorn's ''Ocean Park Series.''...
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Zero Feet Away: From coming out online to meeting all the party people,...
Feature Story: In December 2011, Johnny Skandros, aka ''Johnny Scruff,'' turned 30, a threshold that consumes some gay men. ''I was working on Scruff,'' says the co-founder of the popular mobile-phone...
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Native Gold: The National Museum of the American Indian spotlights Native...
Art: ''If people are in Olympics withdrawal and they want to follow up on a bit of the history,'' says James Ring Adams, ''this is a good place to go.'' Adams, a senior historian at the National Museum...
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