Music
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Military Serenade
Mike Almy only came out to his parents after he became a leading activist pushing repeal of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. ''I...
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Winds Power
''We're a family,'' says Laura Harris, president of D.C.'s Different Drummers. ''We try to take care of each other, we look out for each other.......
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Classical Treatment
''Until very recently, I went out of my way in all of my songs to... in the second person,'' says singer-songwriter Dar Williams. ''Because then...
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Swinging Standards
''It's all right for younger people to like older music,'' says pianist John Eaton, an expert of the Great American Songbook and jazz music from...
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On the Wright Track
Life after coming out may be liberating, but that doesn't mean there won't be some speed bumps along the way. When Chely Wright came out...
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Beat It
''This is the best one yet, and I'm so happy,'' Stacy ''Fergie'' Ferguson boasts toward the end of The Beginning. Regardless of how much you...
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The Year in Music
Twenty-ten will go down as the year of gay pop. Oh sure, at least a couple openly gay pop stars have gotten our attention most...
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Gift of Hits
What is this, another ABBA greatest-hits set? (All together now: ''Money, money, money; must be funny; in a rich man's world.'') Every year record labels...
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Pretty in Pink
Six years ago, Craig Cipollini was the Nutcracker prince in a Gay Men's Chorus of Washington production. Now, he's the king. That is to say,...
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Loving Lucy
Lucy Wainwright Roche was going to be the exception. ''I had grown up with all around me, and grown up being on the road,''...
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Musical Holiday
Maybe I overdid it as a kid, and ruined Christmas forever? Every year as a kid I would exhaust myself, spinning through my parents' collection...
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Blues Alley
Cyndi Lauper calls for greater LGBT activism as her cure for the blues. ''Everybody should be active right now. Everybody should be helping in any...
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Indestructible Pop
“I got a little girl singing on repeat in my head, oh-oh,” Robyn sings, on the wicked tune “None of Dem.” For much of 2010,...
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Scottish Muse
''I've always been a very, very vivid dreamer,'' says singer-songwriter KT Tunstall. ''It's a great source of interest for me.'' Dreams inspired Tunstall's first...
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Crazy Good
Last year, British star Lily Allen caused a stir with an impossibly sweet-sounding song called ''Fuck You.'' The title alone was an attention-grabber, of course....
