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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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At the White House Veterans Day Breakfast, One More Sign of a Post-DADT America
This morning, Veterans Affairs Secretary Ric Shineski and his wife hosted a breakfast in the East Room of the White House in honor of Veterans...
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The 9:30 Club wins the Top Club prize at 2011 Billboard Touring Awards
Congratulations to our hometown’s iconic 9:30 Club, which won the Top Club honor at the 2011 Billboard Touring Awards. The award is attendance-based, so clearly...
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Soccer star David Testo comes out
“iving the life of a professional athlete and being gay is incredibly hard. It’s like carrying around a secret, you know, and carrying around luggage...
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Desert Oasis
''And there you have it, a preview of coming attractions,'' Polly Wyeth (Stockard Channing) says, roughly 30 minutes into Other Desert Cities. The line is...
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Obama Withdraws DuMont Nomination, Selects Replacement Nominee Taranto
As reported earlier today at Metro Weekly, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit nominee Edward DuMont had requested that President Barack Obama withdraw...
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Outspoken #42 – Flag Hags
Host Ebone Bell wanders onto the field of the DC Gay Flag Football League's Quarter-Finals where she queries players on the McRib and sleeping with...
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Senate Judiciary Committee Passes DOMA Repeal Bill Out of Committee
[Photo: Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) talks with Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese and legislative director Allison Herwitt, with Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)...
