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Athletic Achievements
Team DC, Washington's support organization for LGBT sports leagues, will honor athletes and allies at its fourth annual awards reception, Saturday, Oct. 22. The organization...
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Velocity DC Dance Festival
A special partnership between Dance/MetroDC, Washington Performing Arts Society and the Shakespeare Theatre Company, the popular Velocity DC Dance Festival returns for a third year...
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Bullied gay teen, Jamie Hubley, blogged a painful goodbye before suicide
” was the kind of boy that loved everybody…. He couldn’t understand why everyone would be so cruel to him about something as simple as...
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Anti-Bullying Bills Up in the Air as Senate Committee Considers Education Bill Reauthorization
Today and Thursday, Oct. 20, the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is slated to consider the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education...
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This Is What Love in Action Looks Like
Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Chris Geidner Rating: (4 out of 5) Wednesday, 10/19/2011, 5:00 PM Feature presentation, $5 at West End Cinema FOR THOSE WHO...
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Anything You Want
Reel Affirmations 2011 Todo lo que tu quieras Review by Tim Plant Rating: (4 out of 5) Wednesday, 10/19/2011, 7:00 PM Feature presentation, $12 at West End Cinema Spanish...
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Rosa Morena
Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Tom Avila Rating: (3 out of 5) Wednesday, 10/19/2011, 9:00 PM Feature presentation, $12 at West End Cinema Danish, Portuguese and English with...
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Reel Affirmations 20: Day 7 – Love in Action
Reel Affirmations hits mid-week with all three of today’s showings at the conveniently located West End. The first screening is at 5 p.m. with the...
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Research and Recovery
Two local advocates for treatment of methamphetamine addiction who have worked with the Crystal Meth Working Group – a program of The Center, D.C.'s LGBT...
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Evolving Islam
Two of the world's three major religions – Christianity and Judaism – have made relatively great strides in welcoming LGBT people into their communities and...
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''Good Trouble''
''Who would ever have expected, when I was nastily fired in 1957, that in 2009, the very government itself would apologize to me for what...
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Local Legacy
Following Frank Kameny's death last week at 86, the area's LGBT community was left to ponder the loss of a prominent figure in its history....
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Senior Services
When former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty signed marriage equality into law in December 2009, Frank Kameny was missing. He had to attend to his heating...
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Frank Remembrance
It's difficult to watch someone with whom you've had close contact over the years, someone whom you admire, visibly edge toward life's finish line. But...
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Seeking Recognition
''I think Paula was very similar in public and private, very passionate about her views, very funny, and at times very playful – especially with...
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Blue Decade
''Basically, they were playing all of the wrong music,'' Mark Rutstein says about Cobalt when he became the dance club's manager three years ago. ''They...
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Kazim Ali at The DC Center
A novelist and a translator and assistant professor at Oberlin College, Kazim Ali will focus a discussion at the DC Center on his poetry, reading...
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Religious Enrichment
Jay Michaelson thought coming out would spell the end of his religious life. He was wrong. It became a new beginning. ''I really thought that...
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The People Sing
''Oh, I don't know if this is something my parents would want to come see me in,'' Eric Van Tielen remembers thinking when he auditioned...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: This is where you reap as you've sown. This is when the harvest comes in and you can begin to count up the...
