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  • 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...

  • Manifest Destiny

    By on June 3, 2007

    Destiny B. Childs has racked up a lot of titles in three short years of life: Miss Gaye Dreamgirls. Miss International Gay Rodeo Association. Miss...

  • Capital Area Interweave (Unitarian Universalists)

    By on June 3, 2007

    WHY IS UNITARIAN Universalism appealing to gays? Archene Turner, co-chair of Capital Area Interweave, a group with about 40 members representing 15 D.C.-area Unitarian Universalists...

  • Hypnotic Effect

    By on June 3, 2007

    Hitting the Capital Pride main stage last year in 2006 was a big deal for the Mesmers. ''It was the biggest audience we had ever...

  • Whitman-Walker Clinic

    By on June 3, 2007

    THERE AREN'T ENOUGH pages in the Pride Guide to list all of the services Whitman-Walker Clinic has provided to the community over the past three...

  • Totally Wicked

    By on June 3, 2007

    From her old band, The Outskirts of Town, to its new incarnation, Wicked Jezabel, righteous rocker Pauline Anson-Dross has been a Capital Pride mainstay for...

  • Westminster Presbyterian Church

    By on June 3, 2007

    JOHN DINAPOLI CALLS the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Southwest a ''more light church.'' He explains: ''Presbyterians said that individual churches could choose to allow gay...

  • Black Pride Festival Vendors

    By on May 23, 2007

    Sunday, May 27, 2007 Washington Convention Center, Hall C 801 Mount Vernon Place NW Noon to 6 p.m. 8MO Recordings A&E Ventures LLC Adams National...

  • Official Club and Nightlife Events

    By on May 23, 2007

    The following venues and promoters have supported Black Lesbian & Gay Pride Day Inc., the nonprofit organization that produces D.C. Black Pride weekend. We hope...

  • Something to Talk About

    By on May 23, 2007

    If you've ever caught any of the episodes from the third season of BET's College Hill, a reality show about eight black college students, you...