LGBT Strategy To Stay the Course in Richmond: After Virginia elections and...
News: LGBT allies and advocates in Virginia say they are committed to permanently banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in public employment and repealing the...
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Conditional Success: ''If/Then'' features some great performances, led by...
Stage: The creators of the new musical If/Then have given D.C. theatergoers many reasons to be thankful this Thanksgiving. The most obvious three: a grand return for Idina Menzel, in a demanding new...
View ArticleThe Intimate Act of Disclosure: A World AIDS Day wish for countering HIV...
Opinion: As we approach another World AIDS Day I find myself reflecting on one of the most troubling elements in our discussion moving forward. It is a barrier that continually hamstrings our efforts...
View ArticleMontgomery Found Incompetent To Stand Trial: Suspect in 2012 murder of...
News: Gary Niles Montgomery, the Washington man accused of stabbing transgender woman Deoni Jones to death in February 2012, was today declared incompetent to stand trial and ordered to be held at St....
View ArticlePoth Found Guilty of Manslaughter: Jury finds former Marine guilty on lesser...
News: A D.C. Superior Court jury today found Michael Poth, 22, of Washington, guilty of manslaughter while armed in the fatal stabbing of 24-year-old fellow Marine Philip Bushong in the city's Barracks...
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Crowd Gathers for D.C.'s World AIDS Day Vigil: Mayor Gray and others join at...
News: About 70 people, lit candles in hand, gathered Sunday evening at the ''Pillar of Fire,'' a sculpture at 14th and S Streets NW that marks the location of the first Whitman-Walker Clinic – now...
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Funny Business: Once upon a time, the most powerful people in the world...
Opinion: Not long ago, I submitted myself to a full physical at my doctor's office after much concerned haranguing from husband and family. It's heartwarming that so many were concerned for me as I...
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Hyattsville, Md., Passes Human Rights Act: City Council votes unanimously for...
News: The Hyattsville City, Md., Council voted 9-0 Monday to approve the Hyattsville Human Rights Act, a bill that prohibits discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations based upon a...
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Stars of Spunky Synth-Pop: JD Samson and Men bring a playful and political...
Music: "People think our music is really fun," says JD Samson of the indie electronic/punk group JD Samson and Men. "But then when you listen to the lyrics," she adds with a laugh, "they're really...
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Hear Them Roar: An expert cast in a darkly witty script makes for a holiday...
Stage: "And that's the time I bought the gun." Rita Lyons drops that hysterical bombshell in the midst of recounting a sordid family story in Nicky Silver's The Lyons, a black comedy full of devilishly...
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Hearing a Who: Betty Who's career got an unexpected push from one gay...
Music: No doubt you first heard Betty Who a few months ago, courtesy of Spencer Stout's elaborately choreographed marriage proposal to his boyfriend, Dustin. You know, the one set at a Utah Home Depot?...
View ArticleFrancis the Evangelist: While papal welcome words are nice, they still go...
Opinion: I wanted to speak to Pope Francis last week when I encountered the phrase "openness to the transcendent" in his apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel). I feel...
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Family Misfortunes: Rust Belt violence or Irish orphans, take your pick of...
Film: There's a menace poisoning the modern Hollywood drama. It's wearing an unfamiliar face, but the symptoms are easily identified. The lazy use of narrative cliché. A flat story propped up by...
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On Air: Take to the radio waves, streams and podcasts with some of D.C.'s...
Feature Story: Donna Summer made it sound so alluring. It sounded really loudThey said it really loudOn the radio whoa oh oh Of course, back when Summer's song entered the Top 10 in January of 1980,...
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Wives Making Waves: Aisha and Danielle Moodie-Mills sound off on politics and...
Feature Story: For some couples, marriage might signal the start of quiet domesticity. Then there are the power couples. Bill and Hillary. Sonny and Cher. And certainly Aisha and Danielle, aka Mrs. and...
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Out and Tuned In: Sheila Alexander-Reid brings the LGBT community to the FM dial
Feature Story: When it comes to ''institutions,'' D.C. has plenty that are completely removed from Congress, the White House, the Smithsonian or all the other icons recognized globally. At the...
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Houston, We Have a Playlist: DJ Jerry Houston has found his home with 99.5,...
Feature Story: Jerry Houston considers his high school days in Baltimore essentially as practice for how he now spends his days. ''Every chance I could get behind the microphone in high school I...
View ArticleAGLA Names Equality Awardees: Arlington LGBT group to recognize one...
News: The Arlington Gay & Lesbian Alliance (AGLA) will present Equality Awards to James Fisher and Arlington PFLAG (Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays) at the LGBT group's annual...
View ArticleGoforth Elected to Region's Ryan White Planning Council Leadership: Longtime...
News: Justin Goforth, the director of community relations at Whitman-Walker Health, the community health center specializing in HIV/AIDS and LGBT-centric care, and a registered nurse with more than 20...
View ArticleSMYAL's Seasonal Cheer: Young Donors Committee offers second annual ''SMYAL...
News: Supporting and Mentoring Youth Advocates and Leaders (SMYAL), a support group for LGBT and questioning youth in the D.C. area, will bring together more than 200 youth and allied professionals to...
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