All posts by Will O'Bryan
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Don't Miss the Boat
Once winter really takes hold, when the cold wind chafes cheeks and the thickest layers can't keep out the chill, that's when Washingtonians really want...
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Jet Set: Winter with Chi Chi LaRue
Chi Chi LaRue is one busy drag queen. From small-town beginnings in Hibbing, Minn. – where he was better known as Larry Paciotti – to...
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Calendar of Events: Winter Travel 2012-2013
December Pied Piper Christmas and New Year's CruiseCaribbean, via New YorkCunard Queen Mary 2Dec. 22-Jan. 3piedpipertravel.com Mega G5Taipei, TaiwanDec. 29-Jan. 1g5-taipei.com January Arosa Gay Ski...
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Passion Play
Michael Kaplan is on the move, spending Thanksgiving on the road, driving cross-country with his partner. But it's not a joyride. Kaplan is on a...
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Parliamentary Committee Passes Uganda’s Anti-Gay Bill
“The constitution will not allow the majority to oppress the minority.” Ladislaus Rwakafuzi, a human rights attorney, responding to news that the Legal and Parliamentary...
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Uganda’s Mugisha Vows To Continue Fight Against Anti-Gay Bill
“This bill won’t stop us. We will continue to fight until we are free of this legislation. We cannot have oppression forever.” Frank Mugisha, executive...
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Rice Hails Vote To Retain LGBT in UN Resolution
“The United States will fight to ensure that the remarkable progress the UN has made on LGBT issues in the last four years is not...
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Nate Silver Credits His “Outsider” Status
“I’ve always felt like something of an outsider. I’ve always had friends, but I’ve always come from an outside point of view. I think that’s...
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Chamber Head Faces Misdemeanor
Following an Oct. 26 incident, Mark Guenther, the executive director of the Capital Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, was charged Nov. 7 with...
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Welcome to Missibama
As we move into the holiday season, imagine a Southern town square with a resplendent Nativity scene on some warm December evening. Nearby, lights shine...
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Swan Song
Although the DC Eagle is expected to someday soon move out of the building it has called home since 1987, there is still plenty of...
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Ugandan Speaker of Parliament pledges quick movement on “kill the gays” bill
“I will not accept to be intimidated or directed by any government in the world on matters of homosexuality.” Uganda’s Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga...
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GLOE Makes the Guide
The Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center (DCJCC) announced yesterday that its Kurlander Program for GLBT Outreach & Engagement, aka GLOE, has been included in the...
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It's Your g.life!
Brigadoon – the story of the magical Scottish village that appears out of thin air every hundred years – comes to mind. Or maybe it's...
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Racing Round Sandy
Halloween night, 1986, a handful of drag queens made an impromptu bet that found them racing down 17th Street NW in pumps, wigs and all...
