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  • Capital Pride Heroes

    By on June 3, 2007

    Each year, the Capital Pride Planning Committee selects a number of individuals to honor as ''Capital Pride Heroes.'' These six honorees have made extraordinary efforts...

  • Evolving Pride

    By on June 3, 2007

    EVEN AFTER THREE decades, there's one thing you can say about Pride -- it keeps on changing. Since its beginnings in Dupont Circle, D.C.'s annual...

  • The Mautner Project

    By on June 3, 2007

    ''I'M PROUD THAT we are standing,'' says D. Magrini, health education coordinator at the Mautner Project, a lesbian health organization. ''I think the idea that...

  • Pride Committee Roster

    By on June 3, 2007

    Executive Committee David Mallory, Director of Capital Pride Marybeth Lennox, Human Rights Campaign ReGina Newkirk, Whitman-Walker Clinic Mike Sessa, The Center Eric Eldritch, Small Organization...

  • Letter from the Director of Capital Pride

    By on June 3, 2007

    Welcome to the 2007 Capital Pride Festival! It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the 32nd annual Capital Pride Festival. We hope...

  • Northern Virginia AIDS Ministry (NOVAM)

    By on June 3, 2007

    EVEN AS IT ENTERS its twentieth year, the Northern Virginia AIDS Ministry still occupies an important -- and underserved -- niche in the state. ''We're...

  • Parade Participants

    By on June 3, 2007

    In scheduled order of appearance as of press time. Subject to change. Saturday, June 9, rain or shine. Stepoff is 6:30 p.m. at 23rd &...

  • Her Time, Again

    By on June 3, 2007

    Dance music hitmaker and '90s pop sensation Crystal Waters has always had strong support from the gay community, in part because of her chosen genre...

  • Metro D.C. PFLAG

    By on June 3, 2007

    IT'S HARD TO MISS the Metro D.C. PFLAG contingent as they march along the Capital Pride Parade route. This collection of parents, family and friends...

  • Festival Map

    By on June 3, 2007

    Sunday, June 10, 11am-6pm Take Metrorail on the Green or Yellow Line or Metrobus routes 30, 32, 34, 35 or 36 to Archives Navy Mem'l...

  • A Welcoming Home

    By on June 3, 2007

    Mara Levi jokes that during her early Capital Pride Mainstage set a couple years ago, she may have been seen as a bit of a...

  • National Youth Advocacy Coalition (NYAC)

    By on June 3, 2007

    SINCE THE EARLY '90s, the National Youth Advocacy Coalition (NYAC) has taken a social-justice approach to improving the physical and emotional well-being of lesbian, gay,...

  • Parade Route Map

    By on June 3, 2007

    Saturday, June 9, 2007 - Begins 6:30pm Take Metrorail on the Red Line or Metrobus routes D6 or 42 to Dupont Circle in Downtown Washington,

  • Hip Hop Girl Power

    By on June 3, 2007

    A little exposure goes a long way, particularly for the lesbian hip-hop duo God-Des & She. ''We've gotten a lot of Pride offers this year,...

  • One in Ten

    By on June 3, 2007

    MARGARET MURRAY WAS brand-new to Washington, recently hired as the executive director of One In Ten, when she found herself walking through the 2006 Capital...