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Shifting Tide: All National Democratic Leaders Now Support Civil Marriage Equality
President Obama’s announcement that he believes same-sex couples should be allowed to marry has opened the doors to several other Democrats and has solidified the...
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Harkin Sets Senate Committee Hearing on ENDA for June 12
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, headed by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) will be holding hearings on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act on June...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round Up: What will the wind bring back to you after you blow the dandelion fluff away? What will the tide wash up on...
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Scenes from North Carolina
''Watch out for copperheads.'' That seems to be my earliest memory of North Carolina, a casual warning that I don't recall the context for but...
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Servants of Misrule
People in scorned social positions can sometimes transcend their subservient roles by their wit. This is no substitute for a liberation movement, but it can...
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Making Connections
It's a maxim in business: It's not what you know, it's who you know. While much can be said for the inverse, good connections are...
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Beninda, Budd nominated for D.C. Commission on Human Rights
Neither Alexandra Beninda nor Earline Budd is a stranger to the LGBT community, so it came as little shock when Mayor Vincent Gray (D) nominated...
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World LGBT Briefs: Women Take On Traditionalists
South African Bloc Suggests Removing Gays from Constitution Responding to an invitation from the South African Parliament's constitutional review committee to submit comment, that country's...
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Pool Party
''Some of the front rows of the audience ,'' says Constellation Theatre Company's managing director A.J. Guban. ''Just a little splash, just a little...
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National LGBT Briefs: Milk, Mourning and Miami
Harvey Milk Takes to the Street San Diego LGBT Pride announced Tuesday that the San Diego City Council voted unanimously to name a street in...
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Westward, Shrew!
The West is more mild than wild in Folger Theatre's new production of The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare's so-called comedy that revels in...
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Sarah Smiles
As April turned to May, change was afoot on D.C.'s American University campus. For starters, April 30 marked the end of Student Government President Tim...
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Confronting the Virus
Think of it as the ''It Gets Better'' campaign for people affected by HIV. Washington-area blogger and HIV activist Justin B. Terry-Smith is asking people...
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Quaranta Claims Victory
Running on a reform platform, Toby Quaranta, 28, won nearly 60 percent of the votes for president of the D.C. Young Democrats, Saturday, May 5,...
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Swing Time
This summer, Steven Reineke will perform with Idina Menzel at Wolf Trap, supporting the Broadway and TV star with the National Symphony Orchestra Pops. But...
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How It Ends
''We are an ahistorical people,'' Cleveland attorney Leslye Huff says. ''The number of lesbians in this town, who are under 40, who don't know that...
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The Hole Truth
You often hear about pop artists and bands partying hard, being reckless with life and drugs. But you rarely see it. ''I didn't really want...
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Blood Sucking
Stop me if any of this seems familiar: Johnny Depp wears makeup and an odd costume to play a quirky man with an accent. Tim...
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Coming Thursday at Metro Weekly: “How It Ends”
On Thursday, May 10, Metro Weekly is publishing my cover story, “How It Ends,” a special report that looks at what LGBT equality means, where...
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Richard Grenell Speaks Out: Obama “Deserves Credit” For Marriage Stand, Even Though It’s Likely Political
Today, in light of the discussion of whether President Obama would be finishing “evolving” on marriage equality — he did — his Republican challenger, former...
