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  • Survey for Safety

    By on February 11, 2009

    Washington is home to the mother lode of public and nonprofit entities that digest data, move society forward, and dole out funding for an infinite...

  • Yinning My Yang

    By on February 11, 2009

    Here comes Valentine's Day and the attendant red, chocolate and roses. My first memory of the holiday is from early childhood. It's not of the...

  • Unreasonably Hot

    By on February 4, 2009

    It may not be the season for sizzling, but if it's balmy you're after you can go quite a bit higher than 30 Degrees. Just...

  • Dr. Phil

    By on February 4, 2009

    Dr. Philip B. Terry has a hero: his grandmother. She instilled a simple message in her grandson -- that he should be and do his...

  • Straights to Hell

    By on January 28, 2009

    The Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend has come and gone, and hats off to the Centaur MC organizers for once again doing their part to actually express...

  • Welcome to Washington

    By on January 28, 2009

    Through all the barriers to immigration, all the legal wrangling that comes with manmade international borders, one institution has seemed superior: marriage. Even at the...

  • Task Masters

    By on January 28, 2009

    Outside, it's a cold and sunny January afternoon. Inside the sixth-floor offices of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the entryway is piled high...

  • Make Me a Match

    By on January 21, 2009

    Find something cute to wear. Pick a place to go. Make sure your teeth are clean and you smell wonderful. Get a haircut. When you...

  • Orgy Attack

    By on January 21, 2009

    President Barack Obama wasn't the only one celebrating a victory in D.C. last weekend. The Illinois-based Americans for the Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) was touting...

  • Executive Engagement

    By on January 21, 2009

    First came the call inviting the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington to participate in ''We Are One,'' the opening ceremony of President Obama's days-long Inauguration...

  • D.C.'s Countdown to Destiny

    By on January 14, 2009

    There have been other Inauguration Days in U.S. history and many are yet to come. But on Jan. 20, 2009, America will break a long...

  • The Pastor's Peers

    By on January 14, 2009

    If Election Day 2008 was the wedding between the GLBT community and President-elect Barack Obama, his subsequent choice of the Rev. Rick Warren to deliver...

  • Quarter-Century Contest

    By on January 14, 2009

    Most reunions are bittersweet affairs, occasions to strengthen and celebrate bonds, and to reminisce and remember those absent. Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend, running Jan. 16 to...

  • Prouder than Bombs

    By on January 14, 2009

    Here it is, some 60 years since the Israeli Declaration of Independence, and the bombs are still falling. Hamas is firing rockets into Israel and...

  • Good-Bye Girls

    By on January 7, 2009

    Barbara Chinn (Photo by Patsy Lynch) Despite the anticipation of the Jan. 20 change in presidential administrations, generally much welcomed by the GLBT community, there...