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Call of Duty: On the anniversary of DADT's repeal, three active-duty...
Feature Story: In July, underneath a warm Californian sun, dozens of servicemembers holding American flags marched through the streets of San Diego. On its surface, the sight wasn't entirely unusual....
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Intimate Festival: PhaseFest returns once again to the original Phase 1
Music: ''We've had crazy responses from people already worried about whether or not they're going to be able to get in,'' says Angela Lombardi, general manager of Phase 1. Yes, the Southeast lesbian...
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Rock Starr: Garrison Starr should be a bigger deal than she is
Music: To set the record straight, Garrison Starr is not the girl Katy Perry kissed and told about in song. ''No, no, it wasn't,'' Starr laughs. ''Believe me, I would be telling everybody that if I...
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Passionate Feeling: ''4th Street Feeling'' stands out as among the best in...
Music: Melissa Etheridge ends her new album 4th Street Feeling in a state of heat, plain and simple. ''I think I'm ready to try my hand at love again,'' she sings at the top of the incredibly sultry,...
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The Fearless Sergeant: Sgt. John Cephas, Maryland National Guard
Feature Story: It's a day he says he'll never forget. On July 11, 2007, John Cephas stood in line with hundreds of other recruits at the United States Air Force Academy waiting to be processed into...
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Show Pieces: ''Invisible Man'' is one to see, while Taking Steps has trouble...
Stage: What do you call a farce that's not particularly funny? The real Mackay. Of course, what you want is the real McCoy – something from Noel Coward, say, or Tom Stoppard. Or Shakespeare's The...
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This Gay Woman's Army: Jennifer Pollom, Army
Feature Story: Despite the repeal of ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell,'' Jennifer Pollom's work life hasn't changed much in terms of what she divulges to her co-workers or superiors. ''I still have problems...
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A Sailor's Life, No Longer at Sea: Chief Petty Officer Ronnie Ratliff, Navy
Feature Story: At first glance, you can easily spot qualities that mark Chief Petty Officer Ronnie Ratliff as a Navy man, beyond the close-cropped hair. There's the tall athleticism, an all-American...
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Queen for a Day: Donizetti's ''Anna Bolena'' delivers urgency, despair and...
Opera: Timed perfectly for the Tudor fever generated by author Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and its sequel, the Washington National Opera's season-opener of Donizetti's Anna Bolena delivers urgency,...
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Cult Classic: With ''The Master,'' Paul Thomas Anderson wants to unsettle us,...
Film: The Master is a magnum opus of conflict. No man, attitude, sight or sound is immune to its discord. Paul Thomas Anderson uses every millimeter of the film -- yes, all 70 of them -- to exact a...
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The Multi-Billion-Dollar Castle: Brick by brick, LGBT businesses are becoming...
Business: ''Every civil rights movement reaches a juncture where the advancing minority realizes that gaining the keys to the castle requires economic power. The LGBT movement has crossed that point...
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Rose to the Occasion: Hearing the call to help humanity, Matthew Rose...
News: The National Association of People With AIDS (NAPWA) founded the National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NGMHAAD) – Thursday, Sept. 27 – to ''help gay men remember how much we have...
View ArticleLine in the Sand: Tunisia gets a timely lesson in banishing bullies
Opinion: The summer between sixth and seventh grade – for me, 1981 – I'd gone to visit my dad, stepmom and new baby sister. It was my second ''divorce summer,'' meaning a summer spent away from home,...
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One Year Later, DADT Repeal Resonates: After years of writing about...
Opinion: Back in 1992, the height of my activist period, there were two main issues I cared about: HIV/AIDS and military service. AIDS was, and remains, a sprawling challenge that touches on hundreds...
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African-American Pastors Rally in Support of Maryland's Question 6: Group...
News: A group of prominent African-American religious leaders from Maryland, as well as other parts of the country, endorsed Maryland's Question 6 at a press conference at the National Press Club in...
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Gov. O'Malley Makes Pitch for Marriage Money: Governor tells...
News: With about 40 days to go until the Nov. 6 election, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) made a plea yesterday to activists supporting marriage equality on a Sept. 24 conference call: We need more...
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Team DC: Rowing and Volleyball (video): Participants introduce Washington,...
Video: Martha Bass and James Breau explain the benefits of joining crew, while Kyle Chavers tells how he got to be part of DC Strokes Rowing Club: Michael Amesquita talks about volleyball and the wide...
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Gay Couple Suing Public Advocate: New Jersey spouses and photographer file...
News: When Brian Edwards of New Jersey discovered an engagement photo of him and his husband was being used in an anti-gay attack ad in a Colorado state Senate race thousands of miles away, he was...
View ArticleMPD Tracking Anti-LGBT Assaults: Police count five incidents, ranging from...
News: Since Sept. 11, five different District residents have been approached by strangers on the street and physically attacked, groped, threatened or robbed while having homophobic slurs yelled at...
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Bunny Hop: Just who is DJ Cottontail? He's a rabbit with a desire to make...
Clublife: ''I just DJ, hop around, go clubbing and enjoy everything,'' says DJ Cottontail. ''I don't really have to do much. I'm a bunny!'' More to the point, DJ Cottontail is a mystery man – or woman...
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