| Feature Story | Amazing Journey | A. Cornelius Baker has gone from arts to advocacy, from the White House to Whitman-Walker, and is ready for more | Interview by Will O'Bryan Photography by Todd Franson |
| News | The Army Speaks UPDATED | Army leaders tell Congress they oppose a moratorium on DADT enforcement, express tentative support for plans to repeal anti-gay law | by Chris Geidner |
| News | DADT Repeal Gathers Steam on Hill | Lieberman to introduce Senate bill to repeal policy; new report highlights positive experience of American allies with integrating gay soldiers | By Chris Geidner |
| News | A Gay New Yorker in the CPAC Court | A young, gay College Republican in the trenches at CPAC finds moments of optimism about conservatism's future | by Chris Geidner |
| News | Obama Health Care Proposal Leaves Out the Gay | LGBT provisions that were part of the House health care reform bill are missing in president's new health care plan | by Lisa Keen Keen News Service |
| News | GOProud Goes Big at CPAC | Gay Republican group's participation in conservative confab elicits some harsh rhetoric from the stage, but support from actual attendees | by Chris Geidner |
| News | Court Sides with City | Judge denies motion to halt marriage-equality law | by Yusef Najafi |
| News | Holding on to Discrimination | Anti-gay activists at CPAC attempt to hold the line against openly gay military service, even as Dick Cheney and others voice support for repealing DADT | by Chris Geidner |
| News | Weather Warriors | Record-breaking snows kept most people at home, but the call of duty had others out on the front lines | by Yusef Najafi |
| Film | Mysterious Island | The payoff to Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island makes the increasingly frustrating build-up all seem worthwhile | By Tim Plant |
| Music | The Joy of Sax | Joshua Redman considers himself an accidental jazz saxophonist | By Doug Rule |
| Stage | Latino Flair | Pultizer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz desires to open new doors and uncover untold stories | By Tom Avila |
| Stage | Bloodshed, Bigotry and Beauty | Signature's Sweeney is bloody brilliant, Beauty is heartbreaking, and Collection an intense meditation on race | By Tom Avila |
| Stage | Money Pit | Moliere with an art-house edge, Washington Shakespeare's The Miser is an entertaining way to spend a winter's eve | By Kate Wingfield |
| Clublife | Winter Escape | The Task Force's Winter Party Festival in Miami next month will heat up your cold, snow-clogged heart | By Doug Rule |
| Opinion | Making an Exception | Cheney's support for repealing ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' is a positive, but it's fair to ask what took him so long | By Sean Bugg |
| Opinion | The Jackson Jive | Harry Jackson argues for direct democracy, but fights ''home rule'' on the hill | by Richard J. Rosendall |
| Horoscope | Horoscope | February 18-24, 2010 | by Carrie Megginson |
| Video | Can Conservatism Make Room for Gays? [video] | Andrew Sullivan, Maggie Gallagher and British MP Nick Herbert debate the role of gays in conservative politics at the Cato Institute | by Sean Bugg and Aram Vartian |
| Snapshots | Scarlet's Bake Sale | DC Eagle | Ward Morrison |
| Snapshots | WTF? WEheartVD | Town Danceboutique | Ward Morrison |
| Snapshots | Ziegfeld's/Secrets First Anniversary | Ziegfeld's/Secrets | Ward Morrison |