| Feature Story | Trans Awakening | Earline Budd's journey has been difficult and dangerous -- and led her to bring compassion to her activism | Interview by Yusef Najafi Photography by Todd Franson |
| News | Lacking Liaison | LGBT activists decry de-emphasis of MPD's gay liaison unit, lack of transgender inclusion in tracking hate crimes | Yusef Najafi |
| News | International Action | Local activists protest frighteningly homophobic bill proposed in Uganda | by Clare Shepherd |
| News | Courting Inequality | Marriage opposition takes the fight to D.C. Superior Court | by Will O'Bryan |
| News | Spiking in D.C. | Volleyball tourney returns to D.C. | by Yusef Najafi |
| News | Local Leaders | Stein Democrats announce leadership for 2010 | by Yusef Najafi |
| News | Mister Marcus Luncheon | Local leather community remembers icon at Playbill | by Yusef Najafi |
| News | Anti-Gay Effort Rejected | BOEE rejects marriage initiative, Jackson files complaint | by Sean Bugg |
| News | Open-House Anger | LGBT community challenges MPD's plans for GLLU, for starters | by Will O'Bryan |
| News | Blade Ends 40-Year Run | Money woes with majority holder hit Window Media properties | by Will O'Bryan |
| News | Reverend's Return | MCC-DC elects new senior pastor with old ties to the D.C. church | by Will O'Bryan |
| News | Federal Employees One Step Closer to Equal Benefits | Despite Republican attacks, federal domestic partnership bill moves forward in the House | By Lisa Keen Keen News Service |
| News | A New Agenda | Former Blade editors to launch DC Agenda Friday | by Doug Rule |
| News | Promised Fireworks at Hearing Fizzle | Feldblum confirmation hearing for EEOC post is a strangely quiet affair | By Lisa Keen Keen News Service |
| Film | Moon Men | The Twilight Saga: New Moon presents a clash between the book's self-righteous morals and movie marketing | by Tim Plant |
| Film | Tears Worth Shedding | Precious documents an adolescent life in a hellish world, yanking on heartstrings and finding hope in the end | by Tim Plant |
| Stage | Show Time | Signature's revival of Show Boat avoids choppy waters in bringing a Broadway classic to an Arlington port | by Tom Avila |
| Clublife | Leather and Levi Libations | This weekend, the DC Eagle celebrates 38 years of cocktails, cruising and charity. | by Doug Rule |
| Opinion | Opinion: Should a Publicly-Funded Charity Serve the Public? | Catholic Charities attempts to block marriage equality while sitting on the public dole | by Mark Levine |
| Opinion | Gay Judgment Day | Stonewall Baby | by Will O’Bryan |
| Horoscope | Horoscope | November 19-25, 2009 | by Carrie Megginson |
| Family | Holiday Housing | Avoid holiday-travel headaches with an early plan for pet care | by Will O'Bryan |
| Snapshots | NGLCC's National Dinner | National Building Museum | Ward Morrison |
| Snapshots | 30 Degrees / Cobalt | Military Party / NGLCC Afterparty | Ward Morrison |
| Snapshots | Nellie's Sports Bar | Ward Morrison | |
| Snapshots | Tabu | Majestic Nightclub | Ward Morrison |