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Bull's Eye
Let's get one thing out of the way: Bernie is about much more than a real-life murder. ''What you're fixin' to see is a true...
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Marking IDAHO at HRC
Activists around the globe marked the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) Thursday, May 17, a date chosen to mark the World Health Organization's...
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Donna Summer’s everlasting dance
When I first came out as a college student in the mid-‘90s, the gay dance club in Columbia, Mo., would end the night with Donna...
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Obama Administration Issues LGBT-Inclusive Rules Aimed at Eliminating Prison Sexual Assault
Today, the Obama administration announced that it has finalized regulations implementing the Prison Rape Elimination Act. According to an executive summary provided to members of...
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Beautiful Dreamers
If opera is your music for heartbreak and plots be damned, then Massenet's gorgeously overwrought Werther is for you. This is boy meets already-engaged girl...
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Martyr Complex
Was Saint Sebastian gay? History is actually iffy on the subject. But the celebrated, martyred Christian is sometimes referred to as ''a homosexual icon,'' in...
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Black Comedy
Even Jack Black isn't sure if his newest film, Bernie (see review, page 54) is a comedy or a tragedy -- but don't hold that...
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What's your favorite Donna Summer song?
// Read Doug Rule's post remembering Donna Summer in
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Theatre Lab’s Dramathon
The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts reprises last year’s popular Dramathon tomorrow, Friday, May 18. The Dramathon features eight 10-minute plays, written in...
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Dustin Lance Black’s Prop 8 Play Coming to DC for Pride
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announced a one-night-only reading of 8, Dustin Lance Black’s play about the trial over the constitutionality of Proposition 8, to take...
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New Video: Nicki Minaj “Right By My Side”
Nicki Minaj has released the video for “Right By My Side,” featuring Chris Brown. It’s the latest single off her new album Pink Friday: Roman...
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Mid City Artists’ Spring Open Studios Tour is Saturday
Artists who are part of the Mid City Artists collaborative open their studios for the public to meet, learn, enjoy and buy art as part...
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Philadelphia: Promoting art in the City of Brotherly Love
Just days before the opening of the Barnes Foundation’s Philadelphia campus on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia yesterday launched the city’s first-ever coordinated and sustained visual...
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LGBT Locals Cheer Obama's Marriage-Equality Stance
To say that the reaction of the D.C. area's LGBT community to President Barack Obama's endorsement of marriage equality was favorable would be the understatement...
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School Dances
''Do you know that I performed at the national festival 20 years ago?'' Diane DeFries of the American College Dance Festival Association says she hears...
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National LGBT Briefs: Little State, Big Move
Rhode Island Moves to Recognize Out-Of-State Marriages Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee (I) on Monday, May 14, signed an executive order to recognize same-sex couples...
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Global LGBT Briefs: Executions and Incitement
Reports Surface of More Gay Executions in Iran While unconfirmed, reports are coming out of Iran that four men have been sentenced to death for...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Unexpected material comes bubbling up from the depths, like a swamp. And the release of all that pent-up matter comes as a huge...
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New Music: The Dig’s I Already Forgot Everything You Said
The New York City-based The Dig will release their new album, Midnight Flowers, on May 29. We’ve got a sample of their first single, the...
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House Passes Version of Violence Against Women Act That Excludes LGBT Provisions
The House — over White House opposition — today passed its version of the Violence Against Women Act on a 222-205 vote. Among the provisions excluded...
