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  • Volunteer Spirit

    By on December 2, 2016

    Burgundy Crescent Volunteers may have disbanded, but former members have found ways to continue their work

  • GLAA Celebrates 41st Anniversary

    By on April 19, 2012

    The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C. (GLAA), the nation's oldest continuously running gay rights advocacy organization, will mark its 41st anniversary with...

  • Senior Services

    By on October 19, 2011

    When former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty signed marriage equality into law in December 2009, Frank Kameny was missing. He had to attend to his heating...

  • Volunteer Spirit

    By on January 5, 2011

    When Eric Cohen and Jonathan Blumenthal met while doing volunteer work with a gay and lesbian singles group, it was a special moment that launched...

  • Great Gay Gathering

    By on July 15, 2009

    Rob McGuire (Photo by Yusef Najafi) Organizers of the second annual ''Bring Your Own Everything Family Picnic'' were pleased with the comfortably sunny weather on...

  • Homes for Hounds

    By on June 24, 2009

    Dogs are not allowed in the house. That's a motto Tim Williams had to accept growing up in his parent's home in Southeast Georgia. ''My...

  • Burgundy Crescent Volunteers

    By on April 1, 2009

    Let's face it. It's not easy getting out of bed early on a Saturday to help Burgundy Crescent Volunteers, a local gay volunteer group. And...

  • Helping Hands

    By on January 14, 2009

    While it's not every year Washington sees an Inauguration Day -- let alone one with the anticipated attendance for President-elect Barack Obama's -- the Martin...

  • Gay and Green

    By on June 4, 2008

    In the local GLBT community, volunteering has a color: burgundy. Since its forming in 2001, Burgundy Crescent Volunteers have infused themselves into nearly all aspects...

  • Behind the Pride

    By on May 31, 2006

    ''I'm in gay heaven,'' thought Christopher Dyer when he found himself backstage at a Capital Pride celebration as Martha Wash belted ''It's Raining Men'' from...

  • New Year, New You

    By on January 5, 2005

    The holiday debt has racked up and the Christmas cookies have morphed into another inch for your waist size. The madness, however, wrapped itself up...

  • Burgundy Crescent Volunteers

    By on November 19, 2003

    Photograph by Michael Wichita Burgundy Crescent membersvolunteering at Laugh Out Loud Burgundy Crescent Volunteers Mission: Burgundy Crescent has two missions: to provide volunteers for local...