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  • Romney Hires Out Gay Spokesman to Tackle Foreign Affairs and National Security Issues

    Mitt Romney’s campaign tonight announced that it has hired Richard Grenell, an out gay former George W. Bush administration official, to serve as the presumptive...

  • Museveni Denies Ugandan Gay Discrimination

    Yoweri Museveni, the Ugandan president, spoke with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour for an exclusive interview, Wednesday, in which he extensively denied that gay discrimination is present...

  • New Video: Hills Like Elephants’s Invisible Ink

    San Diego-based Hill Like Elephants recently released its debut album, The Endless Charade (Requiemme Records/BMG Chrysalis). Their video single, “Invisible Ink,” is below. More about...

  • 2nd Annual Home & Design Weekend

    The real estate firm Washington Fine Properties celebrates design and home furnishings offered by merchants on or near 14th Street NW and including free in-store...

  • Cylindrical Cinema

    Kerry Brougher doesn't think architect Gordon Bunshaft or other developers of the Hirshhorn Museum anticipated that the circular, donut-shaped building, completed in 1974, would one...

  • Nightclubbing

    Roxann Rowley wasn't struck by lightning, but a similar experience sparked her dance career. ''I was hit by a car crossing the street,'' Rowley explains,...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: You can wake yourself from the dream state into which you've fallen. You can extricate yourself from the web of suppositions and innuendoes...

  • Tickets on sale Saturday for that lollipop quintet, One Direction

    One Direction, the British boy band — and not the California pop group, suing Simon Cowell and co. for stealing their already established name —...

  • Stick in the Eye

    Whether or not we are hard-core political junkies, most of us in the LGBT community share some common understandings about politics as it relates to...

  • HIV Bills Moving Swiftly in D.C.

    Two bills designed to increase awareness and promote a dialogue on HIV/AIDS between patients and service providers are closer to becoming law after being passed...

  • Marriage Matters

    Internalized homophobia is commonplace. You could say it's the result of powerful marketing – repeated catch phrases, sermons and punditry reinforcing a notion that gay...

  • Signs of Life for Anti-Bullying Initiatives in D.C.

    A City Council bill aimed at preventing physical and electronic forms of harassment, intimidation and bullying in District schools, libraries, parks and recreation centers –...

  • Sweet 16 in Dupont

    While Youth Pride Day may have gotten its start in Dupont Circle, there was much more room out of the way down at P Street...

  • GLAA Celebrates 41st Anniversary

    The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C. (GLAA), the nation's oldest continuously running gay rights advocacy organization, will mark its 41st anniversary with...

  • Mercy McKay

    ''I often think, 'Where's Rosie when you need her?''' laughs Nellie McKay. Rosie O'Donnell was nowhere to be found last year, after the New York-based...

  • Broadway Rock

    Gavin Creel is a two-time Tony-nominated actor (Hair, Thoroughly Modern Millie), who's currently gearing up to star in the national tour of The Book of...

  • Global LGBT News Briefs: Ads and Infection

    London Mayor Bans ''Conversion Therapy'' Bus Ads Advertisements promoting ''conversion therapy'' – which claims to make gay people straight – scheduled to run on some...

  • National LGBT News Briefs: Campus, Catholics and Cops

    Pitt Bathroom Policy Contradicts City/County Nondiscrimination Codes A University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) facilities policy contradicts that of the city and county in which the university...

  • Dining Out for Life 2012

    Food is universal. We have the technology to reduce our necessary daily intake of calories to a few ounces of liquid. That might be an...

  • Family Restaurant

    For the latter half of the 20th century and now moving dependably into the 21st, Annie's Paramount Steak House has offered a warm welcome to...