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Air Force Spokesman: “The Airman 1st Class made a statement that he was a homosexual.”
An Air Force spokesman told reporters that the April 29 discharge of an Airman under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — the first such discharge since...
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Super Heroes
While every community has heroes, D.C.'s LGBT community has an abundance. And Capital Pride will honor just a few during this year's festivities with its...
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The Ringleader
Robert O'Hara, the 41-year-old playwright whose latest work, Bootycandy, is having its world premiere run at Washington's Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, is very familiar with...
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Leather Family Picnic
''It started out as just a twinkle in my eye,'' Michael Sessa says. Six years later, Sessa's twinkle of an annual local Leather Pride event...
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Pleasantries
Does America really need another version of ''(Somewhere) Over The Rainbow?'' And another ukulele-driven version at that? After all, it was just a few years...
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Sheik Appeal
''Musical theater -- it just wasn't my cup of tea,'' says Duncan Sheik. The Tony Award-winning composer of Spring Awakening performed in Oliver! and Annie...
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Question Time
Simple of premise and yet utterly engaging, mysterious and provocative, Harold Pinter's Old Times is a beautifully crafted play, the kind of work one might...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You're a dancing, shooting star. You're a dolphin in a merry riptide. You're an eagle soaring on a lofting, gale force wind. If...
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Branding 101
The swoosh. The round green symbol of coffee worldwide. The golden arches. We instantly recognize and remember all of these branding icons. But branding is...
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Lady Gaga says song ‘Born This Way’ not that gay; Stephen Fry ponders bipolar suicide
Lady Gaga recently sat for an interview with gay actor and speaker Steven Fry. When asked if the song “Born This Way” was an affirmation...
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How do you pronounce NKOTBSB?
When boy banders totter into middle-age, what do they do? Well, if you don’t achieve solo fame a la Bobby Brown and Justin Timberlake, then...
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Dominion Stage’s Psycho Beach Party
Dominion Stage mounts a production of the off-the-charts Charles Busch camp classic Psycho Beach Party, a mashup of mid-20th century-era beach movies and Hitchcockian suspense...
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Airman Discharged
An Air Force spokesman confirmed today that the secretary of the Air Force approved a discharge under the military's ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy on...
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Coverboy: Philip
Born and raised in Phoenix, Philip lives in D.C. and works as a contract paralegal. The 34-year-old enjoys helping out Burgundy Crescent Volunteers at Food...
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Ben Cohen brings his Acceptance Tour to DC [video]
International rugby star Ben Cohen, who is straight but extremely gay supportive, brought his Acceptance Tour to Town Danceboutique on Tuesday, May 24 for a...
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Outspoken, Ep. 31 – Touch or Tackle? [video]
For this episode of Outspoken, Ebone Bell ventures into the D.C. Divas season afterparty at Lace nightclub and asks the ladies if they prefer touch...
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News Judgment
It's one of the most obvious and oft-repeated truisms of the day that the news business is a wildly different beast than it was two...
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Global Grassroots
Although I'm writing this on Memorial Day, Monday will be a distant news-cycle memory come Thursday's publication. That does not stop me, however, from considering...
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Winning the Future, LGBT-Style
The Obama administration — ever eager to advance its 2011 theme of “winning the future” — has now extended the three-word slogan to lesbian, gay,...
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Rowland Cancels Appearance
Michael Lutz, executive director of Capital Pride, announced today the Kelly Rowland has pulled out of her scheduled headlining performance on the Capital Pride Festival...
