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	<title>The Righteous Riots: Taking pride in marking the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots</title>
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Pride Guide: There was a time when the phrase &#34;Stonewall&#34; was more likely to conjure images of the Civil War than of Greenwich Village&#46; Then again&#44; perhaps the two aren&#39;t so far apart&#44; though we can be thankful that our &#34;culture war&#34; has a far lower body count than the Civil War&#46; But there it stands&#44; the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher St&#46;&#44; enshrined in the National Register of Historic Places&#44; right along so many Civil War battlefields&#46; As the National Park Service&#44; caretaker of America&#39;s National Historic Landmarks&#44; puts it&#58; &#34;Stonewall is nationally significant because it is associated with events that outstandingly represent the struggle for civil rights in America&#46; The nominated site encompasses a several block area in Greenwich Village that was the location of a series of events&#44; collectively known as Stonewall&#44; that occurred between June 28 and July 3&#44; 1969&#46; Stonewall is regarded as the single most important event that led to the modern movement for gay and lesbian civil rights&#46;&#34;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Here&#39;s Valerie&#33;: Valerie Harper is thrilled to serve as this year&#39;s Capital Pride Celebrity Grand Marshall</title>
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Pride Guide: &#39;&#39;I feel like there&#39;s momentum now&#44; finally in the country&#44; toward sanity&#44;&#39;&#39; says Valerie Harper&#46; The veteran actress&#44; this year&#39;s Capital Pride Celebrity Grand Marshall&#44; is talking about gay acceptance in general&#44; the advance of gay marriage in particular&#46; Harper thinks there will be more backlashes like last year&#39;s &#39;&#39;appalling&#39;&#39; Prop 8&#44; in which voters in her home state of California approved a ban on recognizing same&#45;sex marriages&#46; &#39;&#39;To ban a certain group of people and limit their rights&#63; It&#39;s outrageous&#46; But&#44; in a way&#44; it&#39;s the wind in the sails of the movement&#46;&#39;&#39; The 68&#45;year&#45;old Harper got her start in show business as a dancer and chorus girl on Broadway&#44; but rose to national fame in the 1970s playing Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and then on her own successful spinoff&#44; Rhoda&#46; Harper earned four Emmy Awards in nearly a decade of playing the Jewish firecracker&#46; Valerie Harper Unlike many of her contemporaries&#44; Harper has never shied away from gay rights&#46; She was one of the first celebrities to agree to an interview with the The Advocate&#44; soon after the seminal gay magazine was launched in the late 1960s&#46; Celebrated writer Vito Russo &#39;&#39;asked my manager if I&#39;d do an interview for The Advocate&#44; and I said&#44; &#39;of course&#33;&#39;&#39;&#39; Harper recalls&#46; &#39;&#39;He thanked me and said&#44; &#39;you&#39;re one of the first&#46; People don&#39;t want to do it because it&#39;s gay&#46;&#39; And I said&#44; &#39;Oh&#44; God&#33; We&#39;re one family&#46;&#39;&#39;&#39;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Kickin&#39; It with Cowboys: Washington&#39;s favorite all&#45;male dance troupe has been a mainstay of Pride for years</title>
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Pride Guide: The DC Cowboys have been hot in Washington since forming in 1994&#44; long before they appeared on the third season of America&#39;s Got Talent in the summer of 2008&#46; Of course&#44; performing for millions of people nationally on NBC &#45;&#45; and making it to the show&#39;s semi&#45;final rounds in Hollywood &#45;&#45; hasn&#39;t hurt the all&#45;gay dance troupe&#39;s popularity either&#46; &#39;&#39;Little did we know that straight women would also be our fans &#45;&#45; besides the gay community&#44;&#39;&#39; Kevin Platte&#44; founder of the group&#44; says with a laugh&#46; &#39;&#39;America&#39;s Got Talent really helped us with getting our name out there&#46; It&#39;s a really good r&#233;sum&#233; piece&#46; We don&#39;t have to describe who we are and what we do&#46; People automatically&#44; if they&#39;ve seen the show&#44; know who we are&#46;&#39;&#39;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Queer as Folk Rock: Melissa Ferrick will take the stage again this year at the Women&#39;s Pride Concert</title>
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Pride Guide: Folk&#45;rocker Melissa Ferrick is enthusiastic about the prospects of gay marriage&#46; &#39;&#39;I think it&#39;s awesome that it passed in Iowa&#44; and it&#39;s great that it seems to be becoming something that&#39;s more the norm than not norm&#44;&#39;&#39; she says&#46; Melissa Ferrick But the 38&#45;year&#45;old Massachusetts lesbian&#39;s enthusiasm isn&#39;t exactly personal&#46; Ferrick has no plans to get hitched any time soon&#46; &#39;&#39;I don&#39;t know that it&#39;s something that I would want to do&#44;&#39;&#39; she says&#46; &#39;&#39;But I think it&#39;s important that I would have the right to do it if I wanted to&#44; you know&#63; I think it&#39;s a personal choice if you want to get married or not&#44; but that should be a choice whether or not you&#39;re gay or you&#39;re straight&#46;&#39;&#39;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Labor of Love: Capital Pride finds its lifeblood in the volunteers who create this affirming gift to the community</title>
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Pride Guide: Capital Pride is all about the volunteers&#46; Top to bottom&#44; inside and out&#44; the largest annual festival in the nation&#39;s capital &#45;&#45; along with the parade and days&#39; worth of other events &#45;&#45; is a sublime embodiment of the phrase&#44; &#34;labor of love&#46;&#34; Granted&#44; there is an actual staff&#46; It&#39;s two people&#46; Compare that to the volunteer army who fill out the board&#44; the 10 committees&#44; the three subcommittees&#44; or who offer to help less formally in any number of capacities from planning to execution to clean&#45;up&#46; Capital Pride is an undertaking whose engine hums with the goodwill sounds of volunteered effort&#46; &#34;We can never have too many volunteers&#44;&#34; said Robert Burden&#44; the volunteer &#40;of course&#41; chair of the Capital Pride Volunteer and Member Recruitment Committee&#44; as he prepared for a massive Capital Pride orientation on June 4&#46; &#34;Right now&#44; we&#39;re doing a lot of recruiting&#44; getting everyone singed up online&#46; We&#39;ll have the festival and parade orientations at the Madison Hotel&#44; have volunteers sign up for time slots&#46; It&#39;s going to be between 200 and 300 people&#46;&#34;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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