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Capital Pride Accepts Charity Challenge
Capital Pride's ''Friends of Pride,'' a special recognition for those individual donors who help keep the annual LGBT festival free for attendees, isn't new. But...
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Vote Now for DC's Favorite Otter!
On May 4, 2012, Metro Weekly joined all the otters at the DC Eagle for Otter Crossing, the monthly gathering for D.C.'s scruffy, hirsute set...
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HRC, CAP, Williams Make Public Their Research On LGBT Workplace Discrimination
Today, the Human Rights Campaign, Center for American Progress and Williams Institute — none of which are known as...
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Destination: Palm Springs
In the heart of Southern California, Palm Springs is a top gay-friendly destination. This desert city offers LGBT travelers a wealth of outstanding activities and...
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White House Spokesman on Marriage: “The president is the right person to describe his own personal views.”
Today’s White House press briefing focused extensively on the questions of where the president and vice president stand on marriage equality — and left little...
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TransPride's May Move
In this season of pride, space on the calendar can be pretty tricky to come by. But Capital TransPride did a good job at securing...
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Biden on Marriage Equality: From “Evolving” in 2010 to “Absolutely Comfortable” Today
To see Vice President Joseph Biden’s own evolution on marriage equality, one need only look at the difference between his answer today to David Gregory...
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Biden’s “Words Speak for Themselves” on His “Belief in Marriage Equality,” Incoming HRC Head Griffin Says
Speaking with Metro Weekly just now, Chad Griffin — the founder of the American Foundation for Equal Rights who is due to become the president...
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News Analysis: Through the Obama Administration’s Marriage Equality Looking-Glass
This morning, on Meet the Press, Vice President Joseph Biden was asked about marriage equality — and opened another day of debate about which words...
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Judith Ivey and Carolyn Hax at Monday’s Theater J Benefit
Tony-Award-winning actress Judith Ivey (Steaming, Hurlyburly) plays Ann Landers in Theater J’s one-night-only benefit performance of The Lady With All the Answers, a solo show...
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David Foster and friends at the Kennedy Center Gala
Barry Manilow, Jewel, Peter Cincoitt and Chris Botti will all serenade the 16-time Grammy Award-winning composer and producer David Foster at the Kennedy Center’s 2012...
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Getting intimate with Hands
Hands recently released its new EP — Massive Context — and to promote, they hiked up into the Santa Monica mountains and performed “an intimate”...
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Faction of Fools scrambles Hamlet
Faction of Fools Theatre Company, the 2012 Helen Hayes Award winner for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company, focuses on the Italian commedia dell’Arte theater style of...
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Lyric Video: Leah LaBelle’s Sexify. (Wordy but colorful!)
The official video for Leah LaBelle’s soul-saturated “Sexify” is reportedly coming soon. In the meantime, Epic has released this “lyric video,” which is kind of...
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Funny, Sissy Spacek doesn’t look Jewish…
Luckily, you don’t have to be Jewish to appear at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. In her new book, My Extraordinary Ordinary Life, Spacek...
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Matt Howe brings a bit of Cabaret to The Black Fox
“I’m Hip!” is a solo cabaret show by gay D.C. performer Matt Howe featuring tunes by Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers, Dave Frishberg, Jeff Blumenkrantz and...
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The Patriotic Path continues at Ford’s
Springing to full-blooded life onstage at Ford’s under the assured direction of Peter Flynn, the Founding Fathers of 1776 can be a horny, harried lot,...
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On the Road with Tom Goss: Off the Beaten Path
It’s easy for us to stick with the familiar. It’s easy for us to be comfortable with the things we like. It’s sometimes harder for...
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Coverboy: Brandon
Resilience, hard work and independence are values prized by 24-year-old Brandon. The native Marylander earns his keep as an office administrator for the federal government...
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Biblical Proportions
With a busy narrative, a biblically minded libretto, and a director who assumes a cogent, educated audience, the Washington National Opera's Nabucco isn't for those...
