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  • Pride Committee Roster

    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

    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)

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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)

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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)

    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

    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...