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All posts tagged "pride day"

  • Launching Pride

    Back in the younger years of DC's Black Pride celebration, I was coordinating HIV-prevention outreach efforts with one of my black co-workers at Whitman-Walker Clinic....

  • A Charming Pride

    Last Saturday, June 18, Baltimore may have seen its last Pride block party at its traditional Mount Vernon location. If that turns out to be...

  • Jennifer Holliday performs 'And I Am Telling You' [video]

    The extraordinary Jennifer Holliday performed her signature hit, ''And I Am Telling You,'' from the musical Dreamgirls, at the 2011 Capital Pride Festival on Sunday,...

  • E-Clef – 'Michael Jackson's Thriller' [video]

    Drag King E-Clef (Ebone Bell) performs to Michael Jackson's ''Thriller'' on the Main Stage at the 2011 Capital Pride Festival. Bell is also the host...

  • Jennifer Holliday performs 'Magic' [video]

    Headliner Jennifer Holliday closed out her multi-song set at the 2011 Capital Pride Festival, Sunday, June 12, with the World Premiere of a new dance...

  • Outspoken Ep. 32 – Special Capital Pride Edition [video]

    Prior to her showstopping performance as E-Cleff on the Capital Pride Festival Mainstage, Ebone Bell ventured through the crowd to pose some questions about the...

  • A Capital Pride

    Mother Nature, always the wild card for D.C.'s many outdoor events, looked as though she were going to insert herself into the story of this...

  • Behind the Covers

    Without people, there is no Pride. That was the guiding thought this year as we put together our ideas for the cover of this 13th...

  • The 2011 Capital Pride Planning Committee

    Capital Pride Board of Directors Michael Lutz, PresidentBernie Delia, Vice PresidentRaymond Panas, SecretaryAnne Scott, TreasurerAndrea FriedmanScott JacksonScott MallanVince MiconeMary ParadiseCheri Lee RoeRobert Turner IIJessie WashingtonJustin...

  • 2011 Capital Pride Community Partners

    AIDS Healthcare FoundationBlair Underwood Healthcare Center Founded in 1987, AIDS Healthcare Foundation known as AHF, is the largest global AIDS organization, offering free HIV testing...

  • Swiss Delicacy

    It might be a little puzzling that Bettina Schelker wrote a song called ''The Honeymoon is Over'' upon marrying the love of her life. But...

  • Madonnarama

    Here's an interesting fact: Adam Guerra has devoted so much of his life to drag and impersonating women, he only just bought his first bottle...

  • Party Monsters

    Want a little news with your nightlife at this year's Capital Pride? The headline party this year is at the Newseum on Friday, June 10,...

  • Mama's Family

    Ashland Miller and Laura Cerulli both feel like the black sheep of their respective families. ''Neither of our mothers feels that way, oddly enough,'' says...

  • Sister Spirit

    ''A lot of female emcees and rappers extra-hard and extra-serious and violent,'' says Be Steadwell, who goes by the nickname B. Steady in the...