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House GOP Leadership Appeals DOMA Ruling
In a brief filing today in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group has announced that...
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Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem
The Washington Performing Arts Society presents this musical tribute to an African-American slave who served as a doctor in post-Colonial Connecticut, which grew out of...
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Pardon the Pundit at The Harman
The D.C.-based political comedy theater Pardon the Pundit makes hay out of the hypocrisy, absurdity, corruption and self-righteousness from both parties in the nation’s political...
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Astro Boy and the God of Comics
Astro Boy and the God of Comics is a highly visual, retro-sci-fi show about the 1960s animation series Astro Boy, focused on a crime-fighting robot,...
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Dinah Shore Weekend: Girls going wild in the desert
More than 15,000 women from all over the world are expected to gather in Palm Springs, Calif. for The Dinah, also known as The Dinah Shore...
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BREAKING: Maryland Senate Passes Marriage Equality 25-22, Bill Heads to O’Malley for Signature
The Maryland Senate passed HB 438, a bill legalizing marriage equality in the Free State, by a 25-22 margin after its third reading Thursday afternoon,...
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Marriage Equality Bill Weathers Amendments in Maryland Senate; Afternoon Vote Expected
The Maryland Senate resumed debate today concerning amendments to HB 438, a bill to legalize marriage equality, just a day after opponents were able to...
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Obama’s Decision Not to Defend DOMA, One Year Later
A year ago today, the announcement about the Defense of Marriage Act came by way of a letter from Attorney General Eric Holder to House...
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Romney’s Veiled Reference to Gay Adoption Was GOP Debate’s Only LGBT Mention
The Republican presidential debate in Arizona on Wednesday night, Feb. 22, featured no...
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Rocky Reckoning
It must've been the summer of 1979, because I remember specifically that people were talking about American Airlines Flight 191. The ill-fated DC-10 lost one...
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Baltimore County Passes Gender-Identity Bill
The Baltimore County Council passed a transgender rights bill prohibiting discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity or expression on a...
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Reflections on Black History Month
Since 1926, February was known for the celebration of black American history. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard Ph.D., initiated ''Negro History Week,'' which it...
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Bad Company
In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, ''There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all...
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Hooray for Hollywood
Why watch the Oscars alone at home when you could do it with hundreds of your best gay friends? That at least is part of...
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National Briefs: Getting Better, Going West
Nebraska bill prohibits protections The Nebraska State Senate is scheduled to debate a bill Feb. 22, after Metro Weekly deadline, that would prohibit local municipalities...
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Oscar Fix
Well, it's Oscar time again! Somewhere out West, at this very moment, starlets are shrieking at their personal assistants about ill-fitting Dior, Billy Crystal is...
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Otter Season
Once thought to be an endangered species, otters are now so prevalent in D.C. that, like deer, a hunting season has sprung up. Of course,...
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Camp Classic
Audience participation is common, part of the human experience. In its most simple expression, it's applause. Add a bit more gusto, and you've got a...
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Global Briefs: Eating Out, Standing Up
Prime Minister's Down Under dinner date with gay families Three Australian same-sex couples on Tuesday, Feb. 21, had a unique opportunity to lobby Prime Minister...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to separate facts from fantasies, don't be too quick to discard the bathwater...
