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  • The Habit of Art – Extended (and now with video!)

    Alan Bennett’s play-within-a-play, The Habit of Art, follows an imagined meeting between openly gay poet W. H. Auden and closeted composer Benjamin Britten a year...

  • Take Me Out at Dominion Stage

    In Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out, Darren Lemming, the star center fielder of the world champion New York Empires, comes out as gay and trouble...

  • The Indigo Girls at Strathmore

    Amy Ray and Emily Saliers — better known as The Indigo Girls — have been at it for well more than two decades now, but...

  • Liz Prescott at the DC Center

    Liz Prescott is the featured performer at this month’s open mike night at the Center, D.C.’s LGBT community center. A semi-finalist in the first national...

  • Henry Rollins at NatGeo Live!

    Henry Rollins is a D.C.-native punk rocker, a spoken word artist, a frequent TV show host, and, last but not least, a vigorous LGBT ally....

  • Artisphere celebrates its first anniversary

    Arlington’s Artisphere turns a year old this weekend with a celebration featuring original art, music and off-beat arts activities. The arts complex commissioned local artist...

  • Cowboys Calling It Quits UPDATED

    They started as a small group of dancers at the area's Atlantic Stampede LGBT rodeo 17 years ago and have since gained national and international...

  • Obama slept here, and you can too

    The Phoenician is rolling out the red . . . ah, make that pink carpet for LGBT travelers with its Pride in the Desert package...

  • California juror believes murdered gay teen was the bully

    ”This wasn’t about him being gay…. This was about bullying. There was a ton of evidence that Larry was acting inappropriately with other kids at school,...

  • Shared History

    My first trips to D.C. while I was still a college student in southwestern Virginia were particularly strong indicators of what a country boy I...

  • Strong Words, But Still Evolving

    Saturday evening, Oct. 1, President Barack Obama addressed the Human Rights Campaign for the second time in his presidency, speaking at the Washington Convention Center...

  • Bending with Benevolence

    A novel approach to helping women deal with breast cancer is coming to the District this month – possibly in the form of the ''downward-facing...

  • Activists Voice Crime Concerns

    Representatives from the District's various public safety agencies and the Mayor's Office of GLBT Affairs held an outreach meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 28, aimed at...

  • Coverboy: Jason

    Jason, 24, has a strong relationship with God, but is hesitant about church. He used to love it, even participating as a pastor's assistant. Then...

  • PW's Prize

    As of Oct. 1, Marc Carcione of Laurel is the second person to be named Mr. PW's Leather. The member of the DC Boys of...

  • A Musical Mystery

    Adam Gwon got the idea for his new musical The Boy Detective Fails from the most mysterious of places: Amazon.com. The online superstore's complicated algorithms...

  • Giving Birth

    It's fitting that Duncan Macmillan's Lungs is about childbirth -- as the inaugural production of the Studio Lab series, the newborn is a promising start...

  • French Twist

    Mon Dieu! If Les Misérables is 25 and I've been a fan since the beginning, then I must be -- well, I guess I'm no...

  • Love Story

    There are plenty of films that want to be Weekend. They trickle into multiplexes around the country a few times a year, feeding into a...

  • Raising the Bar

    Sitting on its prominent 17th Street corner, the expansive windows of JR.'s look out on a community that its helped become a little more ''out''...