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  • Are We There Yet?

    So, yes, it's lamentable that political progress is generally a stop-and-go affair, with long stretches of frustration and ennui punctuated by momentary outbursts of excitement...

  • Court Rejects LCR Rehearing

    Although the repeal of ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' was finalized Sept. 20, the lawsuit brought by Log Cabin Republicans challenging the constitutionality of DADT had...

  • Battling the Blood Ban

    Blood may be thicker than water. But a ban on blood donations may be thicker still. Members of George Washington University's Lambda Law, the LGBT...

  • Sex and Identity Symposium

    History may be written by the victors, but some local college students are forgoing what may be written in their textbooks and pursuing educational opportunities...

  • News Briefs: Bullies, Barber and the FBI

    House Alters Michigan Bullying Law After the Michigan Senate passed an anti-bullying law that contained a religious exemption, Michigan's House of Representatives responded to an...

  • Midlife Aloha

    Alexander Payne had made quite a name for himself on the backs of middle-aged discontents. In Election, it was the stagnant, scheming sort. In Sideways,...

  • Wingspan

    It's a warm November Thursday and Ted Clements is getting ready for business. He walks through the empty – almost hallowed – space on New...

  • Bucking Tradition

    Every city needs an alternative theater scene. Why? The official answer is that alternative theater speaks to and informs the norm, challenges tradition, broadens ideas...

  • Victorian Nightmare

    A stylized Victorian nightmare with lashes of Sam Peckinpah realism and the odd sporran, David Alden's rendering of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor isn't for everyone....

  • Transcendent Disco

    ''The great irony is the fact that we're so associated with the gay dance world and the queer scene -- we're actually pretty much...

  • Lasting Value

    ''Sometimes I'll look into the audience and I'll see people crying,'' says Suzanne Vega. ''Or I'll talk to someone after the show and they tell...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: Are you awakening from a long dream? Or are you falling back into a semi-grounded fugue state? Retain your self-awareness as you progress...

  • The bears come out to play in paradise

    Bears in Paradise, a gay owned and operated, Vancouver-based tour company, is organizing Bear Break: Maui, March 24 to March 31, 2012. Maui has been voted...

  • The Normal Heart national tour will launch at Arena Stage in June 2012

    Arena Stage will launch the national tour of the 2011 Tony Award-winning production of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, to coincide with AIDS 2012, the...

  • Winning in Cincinnati

    “If some gay or lesbian kid in Cincinnati walks into school with their head a little higher after this, that’s the important thing.” Denis Dison,...

  • HUD Secretary Supports Marriage Equality

    U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan became the first sitting cabinet secretary to announce support for marriage equality, saying on Nov. 15 that...

  • Federal Leaders Honor Kameny

    Various government officials, members of Congress, local community leaders and others congregated at the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill to bid a final...

  • A Lady Gaga Tease: You and I

    Lady Gaga just released a clip of her performance of “You and I,” from Lady Gaga Presents The Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden....

  • Coverboy: Tony

    Tony, 23, is trying Brooklyn on for size. But you can still see plenty of him down here, as he's working at Baltimore's Club Hippo...