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Swimming from the sharks
In the one man show, Be Careful! The Sharks Will Eat You!, Jorge “Jay” Alvarez recounts his family’s escape from Fidel Castro’s Cuba in 1964....
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Which Shakespeare play is your favorite?
// Read our interview with Michael Kahn, Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre
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Coverboy: Robert
Robert, 25, is one Buffalo, N.Y., native who actually can ''Shuffle Off to Buffalo.'' As a professional dancer, that's kid stuff. ''Shuffling off'' is actually...
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National Organization for Marriage, Sen. Diaz Respond to Recent Criticism
The National Organization for Marriage and New York state Sen. Ruben Diaz (D), a prominent opponent of New York’s marriage equality law, have spoken out...
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Federal Appeals Judges Consider Whether DOMA Is Constitutional in Historic Hearing in Boston
[Photo, above: Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders lawyer Mary Bonauto, left, apeaks with reporters along with Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley (D), right, and...
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Adventure Theatre’s 60th Anniversary Gala and Auction
Film and television actor (and Bethesda native!) John Michael Higgins (Happily Divorced, Best in Show), serves as emcee and Law & Order‘s Jesse L. Martin...
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Counting the Crimes
The March 20 demonstration for victims of crimes that seemed to target members of the LGBT community may have been more warranted than organizers imagined....
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Say What We Mean
So Tony Perkins, the longtime bigoted mouthpiece for the rabidly anti-gay Family Research Council, was rather apoplectic this past week over the news that a...
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Our Little Girl
We are the parents of a transgender child, Jackie. And we decided to tell our family's story on television, in the April broadcast of the...
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When in Rome
Vacations are supposed to be a time to relax, recharge or let loose. A holiday trek may also be highly educational. Certainly, that was the...
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Dancing through Wonderland
''It's a big one,'' says Septime Webre, ''a really loud, wild dream.'' The artistic director of the Washington Ballet isn't joking about the brand-new production...
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Incumbency Trumps in DC and Maryland
As with District residents writ large, D.C.'s LGBT community shouldn't expect any major changes in its collective relationship with the city's elected officials. With results...
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LGBT News Briefs: Pageant and Parish
Beauty Pageant Hopeful Takes on Miss Universe Over Gender Identity Jenna Talackova, 23, spoke on Tuesday, alongside celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, about her ordeal of...
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LGBT National Briefs: Campus and Coffee
COLLEGES MAY ASK STUDENTS ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATION/GENDER IDENTITY California state institutions of higher education are considering adding some questions to applications or enrollment forms, the...
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Kahn Bravura!
Ask Michael Kahn if he's happy and here's the response you'll likely get: ''Last night, I was walking around the house and I said to...
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A Woman Alone: 'Strange Interlude'
In the pantheon of social types, there have always been the over-qualified and under-employed. These are the alphas that, never quite launching, end up using...
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Spiderspoof
''It seems like a lot of theaters take themselves a little too seriously,'' says Mickey DaGuiso. That's certainly not true of Landless Theatre, the company...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You're ready to look for the light at the end of the tunnel. You're on the brink of cracking the code and going...
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In Dean Hara’s Mission to Defeat DOMA, Echoes of His Deceased Husband, Rep. Gerry Studds
Former Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass.), who died in October 2006, was the first out gay member of Congress back in 1983. He was one of...
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Federal Appeals Court Takes on DOMA in Historic Hearing on Wednesday in Boston: What to Know
On Wednesday morning, April 4, a three-judge panel of the...
