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  • Biden, Ryan Spar Over Range of Issues at VP Debate

    The first and only vice presidential debate of the campaign concluded last night with no mention of LGBT issues. Vice President Joe Biden and Republican...

  • Jacques Brel is Alive and Well at MetroStage

    Natascia Diaz, one of D.C. theater’s greatest performers, is currently polishing Jacques Brel’s standard “Ne Me Quitte Pas (“If You Go Away”) at MetroStage in...

  • Spooky movies at the AFI Silver

    Now in its seventh year, the Spooky Movie International Horror Film Festival nearly doubles to nine days of horror screenings, and also includes the first-ever...

  • Equity Rising

    The International Federation of Black Prides, an organization sprouted from the 1999 D.C. Black Pride event and today encompassing dozens of groups, announced Thursday evening...

  • CAGLCC Makes the List

    The Capital Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, aka the Chamber, is celebrating its inclusion in the Washington Business Journal's 31st annual ''Book of...

  • Montgomery Indictment Expected by Next Month

    Government prosecutors say they expect Gary Niles Montgomery, a 55-year-old homeless man accused of fatally stabbing Deoni Jones, a transgender woman, to be indicted within...

  • Philadelphia: Cupcakes, chocolates and a gay-friendly city

    One look at my fluctuating waistline and you know I love my sweet treats. And when I find myself in Philadelphia, one temptation that I cannot resist...

  • Complaint Filed Against Illinois Social Worker’s “Ex-Gay” Therapy

    Emboldened by California’s historic ban on “ex-gay” therapy for LGBT youth, activists are continuing their fight against practices they say equate to child abuse. The...

  • Maryland Marriage Effort Counters Anti-Equality TV Campaign

    With the ball back in their court, marriage-equality advocates fighting for Question 6, the ballot measure that would allow gay and lesbian couples to obtain...

  • Baltimore Anti-Marriage Fliers Target Race

    Chris Wulin walked out his door in late September to find his neighborhood covered in fliers. One was in his door, another in his windshield,...

  • Fields of Dreams

    If there's anything that illustrates the difference between men and women — and, by extension, gay men and lesbians — it's sports. I do not...

  • Smirking and Magical Thinking

    One of the wonders of our age is the persistence of ''Birthers'' and other True Believers who insist that Barack Obama is an Islamist terrorist...

  • Heritage and Identity

    Years ago, Esther Hidalgo didn't find much celebration of Hispanic heritage. At her suburban Maryland middle school, as a Latina she was in a minority...

  • Shining a Light on Question 6

    It's about 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6. In the twilight, several people gather at a parking lot in Owings Mills, Md., awaiting instructions from Mark...

  • New Directions in the Old Dominion

    The Capital Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (CAGLCC) is focusing on its ''capital area'' description more intently with the creation of a new...

  • Survival Instincts

    I don't have to tell you that How to Survive a Plague is an important film. Nor do I have to tell you that it...

  • Hail to the Chefs

    Want to know the percentage of D.C. chefs supporting marriage equality? Among those chefs food writer David Hagedorn asked to be part of Chefs for...

  • Nina's Legacy

    Meshell Ndegeocello isn't living in the past. She says the present is far better. ''I was reading the Nina Simone I Put A Spell...

  • Diva Delights

    ''We've nicknamed it the Beef Jerky Dress around here,'' laughs Kathryn Wat, chief curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She's referring...

  • Campus Politics

    Professors are supposed to be smart. That's why they're professors. Certainly, Joy Ladin is no dummy. The literature professor waited until she'd secured tenure before...