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WIT’s Scary Funny Halloween Weekend
The Washington Improv Theater presents a rotating lineup of “frightfully funny” skits for its “Scary Funny” Halloween weekend, all concluding with “Die! Die! Die!,” a...
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Halloween on Screen at AFI
This year’s annual scary cinema series at the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre focuses on the centennial of horror icon Vincent Price with screenings of...
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AIDS Walk is tomorrow!
D.C. councilmember and former Whitman-Walker Clinic director Jim Graham, Whitman-Walker employee Joe Izzo and retired Army nurse Maudie Jones are the grand marshals for the...
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Halloween Outspoken: Scary Stuff [video]
In this edition of Outspoken, host Ebone Bell hits up the participants at the 25th Anniversary 17th Street High Heel Race in an attempt to...
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Life in the Fast Lanes
The Capital Halloween Invitational Tournament (CHIT) is celebrating its 30th Anniversary Oct. 28 through Oct. 30 at the AMF Annandale Lanes in Annandale. The annual...
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Going Green
We all know that the Moor of Venice is supposed to be a hothead, but is he supposed to be this flat-out hot, too? In...
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Blasphemy in Idaho
Whatever the purveyors of the nation's entertainment may believe, or not, there is something about the recent tide of religious fundamentalism that has them running...
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25th Anniversary 17th Street High Heel Race [video]
The 17th Street High Heel Race celebrated its 25th Anniversary running of the drags on Tuesday, Oct. 25. A Washington institution, the event has grown...
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Thriller Night
Not everyone likes to dress up for Halloween. Some people dress up enough already the rest of the year. But you certainly get more chances...
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The Great Septime
Septime Webre was drawn to dance early. ''I'm half-Cuban,'' he says, ''and there's an old Cuban saying that Cubans dance before they can walk.'' {Septime...
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SLDN Files DOMA Challenge, Seeking Equal Benefits for Same-Sex Military Spouses
[Photo: Servicemembers Legal Defense Network executive director Aubrey Sarvis, left, speaks at a news conference on Oct. 27, 2011, announcing the organization’s filing of a...
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Review: CSS and MEN at the 9:30 Club
At the end of its concert at the 9:30 Club on Monday night, Oct. 24, the Brazilian dance-rock band CSS gave a Beastie Boys-esque rap-chant,...
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Girl Scouts confront request from boy who “identifies as girl”
”He’s been doing this since he was about 2 years old. He’s loved girl stuff, so we just let him dress how he wants, as...
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Out With It
For those of us who've been out for years, the delicate dance of the semi-closeted celebrity can be infuriating. The dance features a number of...
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Kameny in Combat
My first direct experience of Frank Kameny's combative style came during a gay rights debate that I arranged at Villanova University in March 1978 for...
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Spirited, But Not Yet Safe
On Oct. 20, many parts of Facebook and Twitter turned purple, as individuals, organizations, companies and even the White House changed their profile pictures and...
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Attacking Indifference
Washington residents, government agencies and community groups rallied at an Oct. 24 town hall to sound an alarm about problems facing ''black LGBTQI youth'' in...
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Gansler Warns of Ballot-Box Fight
Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler told supporters of marriage equality that he believes same-sex marriage will be passed by Maryland's General Assembly and signed into...
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AIDS Walk's Top 25
Whitman-Walker Health, organizer of AIDS Walk Washington, on Tuesday announced not only the recipients of the event's three major honors, but a list of 25...
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Privileged Information
Sometimes, Anthony Dortch Jr.'s parents just don't understand. ''My parents look at my artwork,'' he says, ''and sometimes go, 'Why? Why not just make some...
