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  • Obama to Name Fourth Out LGBT Judicial Nominee

    Politico’s Abby Phillip reports this afternoon — and the White House confirmed — that the President Barack Obama is planning on nominating Michael Fitzgerald, an...

  • Tori Amos tix go on sale Friday; special pre-sale event on Thursday

    Tickets go on sale this Friday, July 22, for Maryland-native Tori Amos‘s hometown concert at D.A.R. Constitution Hall in December supporting Night of Hunters, a...

  • Editor’s Pick: Woolly Mammoth revisits Clybourne Park

    Woolly Mammoth reprises its production of Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park, after having won a couple Helen Hayes Awards and this year’s Pulitzer Prize. As Metro...

  • No room at Vermont inn for lesbian couple

    “After our conversation, I checked with my innkeepers and unfortunately due to their personal feelings, they do not host gay receptions at our facility.” An...

  • Transgender Woman Killed

    A transgender woman was shot and killed in Northeast...

  • Senate Considers the Respect for Marriage Act, Bill to Repeal DOMA

    [Photo: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) confers with Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) before a committee hearing into the Respect for Marriage Act, a...

  • Enemy of the Good

    For many families, it's a cardinal rule for friendly relations to declare certain times and places ''politics-free'' zones. Few things can ruin a perfectly pleasant...

  • Quacks and Busybodies

    I resisted a temptation in my last column to report the speculation then stirring that Marcus Bachmann, who is married to Republican presidential candidate Rep....

  • King of Queens

    There are some things hair and makeup can't fix. A broken iPhone, for instance. On a Tuesday afternoon in Los Angeles, Sutan Amrull – better...

  • Video Flashback

    ''I'm loving seeing the mix in the crowd we get,'' says Nikolas Groshans. ''The people are from all different backgrounds, they're different sexes, they're different...

  • Role Model

    By day, Sajdah Golde is a field organizer with the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Vote for Equality initiative, canvassing neighborhoods that voted for California's...

  • Art and Artifice

    Could it be time for a Candy Darling revival? It's been 37 years since her death due to leukemia -- and the Andy Warhol-associated starlet's...

  • Bird Watching

    Right now, a play about gay penguins -- and more broadly, gay marriage -- is playing at a small, relatively new theater in Fairfax County....

  • Having a Ball

    In a way, the June 21 Night Out at the Nationals was just a warm-up, with Team DC now running down the court to the...

  • Oklahomo

    ''I think being in the Midwest, people don't expect it to be quite like that, but in Tulsa there's just a lot of support,'' says...

  • The Tweet Life

    Broadway, take note: Lizz Winstead's big dream in life is to play Martha in a revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ''That...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: You're really putting your back into it. In fact, you want to watch out that you don't strain yourself under the mighty effort....

  • Passionate Pursuit

    Not everyone has the good fortune to say they have their dream job that allows them to follow their passion. But not everyone is willing...

  • Untying the Knot: Gay and lesbian couples find divorce is hard to do

    While the celebrations and expectations on marriage in the gay and lesbian community focus on the ability for same-sex couples to have their relationships legally...

  • Tour Tuesday: Japan

    Magnet Tours, the first tour operator in Japan to focus specifically on LGBT travelers, is offering a nine-day cultural tour of Japan, September 10 to 18, 2011. This...