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  • House GOP Leadership Defends “Traditional” Marriage From Being “Radically Redefined”

    On June 3, the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group — the three Republican members — filed a motion to dismiss Karen Golinski’s lawsuit seeking equal...

  • Morgan Offends With Anti-Gay Talk, Publicist Releases Statement of Apology

    As noted at Truth Wins Out, comedian Tracy Morgan, in a recent stand-up routine, made some comments about gay people that led an audience member...

  • The Go-Go’s at Wolf Trap

    The ’80s pop hitmakers The Go-Go’s got the beat to unofficially kick off Capital Pride weekend, out at Wolf Trap, as part of a “Ladies...

  • Canto al Peru Negro at Gala

    Gala Hispanic Theatre presents Canto al Peru Negro, a world premiere production from Gabriel Garcia that promises an evening of song, dance and dramatic scenes...

  • Duncan Sheik at The Birchmere

    Duncan Sheik is once again working with Steven Sater, with whom he created the Tony-winning 2006 sensation Spring Awakening, this time on an adaptation of...

  • DADT's Six-Month Mark

    On Dec. 22, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act into law. Despite the almost six months that have passed...

  • True Sage

    Caleb Laieski is determined. On Wednesday night, June 1, Laieski sat at a Dupont Circle coffee shop reviewing the day's meetings. It would have been...

  • Community Spirits

    I've never been asked our stalwart Coverboy question, ''What position do you play in the big baseball game of life?'' But, in case you were...

  • Tales of Survival

    June 5 marked the 30th anniversary of the first report of what became known as AIDS, when the Centers for Disease Control described cases of...

  • History of Pride

    Almost three decades before Stonewall, a gay African-American man named Bayard Rustin organized a 1941 March on Washington so successful that it never even took...

  • To Remember and Renew

    During the first three decades of HIV and AIDS, more than 575,000 Americans lost their lives. This week, as we mark the 30th anniversary of...

  • Play Ball!

    Once upon a time, there was a section of the Anacostia waterfront that thrived with businesses catering to the gay community. In 2006, those businesses...

  • Out on the Field

    Don't be late for Night Out at the Nationals. The festivities begin before the first pitch, and include a host of LGBT notables. Team DC...

  • Extra Outings

    This year Team DC's ''Night Out'' makes a leap beyond baseball, hosting three other Night Out events, beginning with the July 21 Night Out at...

  • Classic Grace

    Let's be clear: Dina Merrill is not a diva. ''She is extremely gracious and sophisticated,'' says Lynn Rossotti of Hillwood Estates. And yet, Merrill is...

  • Father-Son Outing

    In reality, a man was raised in a nuclear family in California. He grew up with a mother and a father and two sisters. When...

  • Trail Blazer

    ''I thought that I hadn't really lived that much,'' says the 48-year-old legendary punk-rocker Bob Mould about being approached by a publisher in 2001 to...

  • Psychotic Edge

    ''After one of the performances, someone asked, 'You do this a lot?''' That's a typical response Christopher Gillespie is getting playing a woman in Dominion...

  • Restless Knight

    There are two ways to consider Synetic's humorously sincere Don Quixote. The first is for those who have yet to sample the strange and wonderful...

  • Queen Machines

    There's no ABBA turd in the Broadway version of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. In fact, in transporting Stephan Elliott's beloved 1994 film to the...