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Pager Problems
Mayor Vince Gray's Office of GLBT Affairs made its first public announcement under the new leadership of Jeffrey Richardson this week, sharing the Metropolitan Police...
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Frisch, Covered LGBT Issues Often at Media Matters, Leaving to Start New Communications Firm
In the first two years of the Obama administration, Media Matters for America had expended some serious energy toward addressing LGBT issues, most notably in...
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Todd Wright and Cal Everett at Jammin’ Java
D.C.-based Todd Wright has been the touring guitarist for such national acts as the Pat McGee Band, Better Than Ezra and Lucy Woodward, and his...
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Disney in Concert at the NSO
Michael Krajewski conducts the NSO Pops in Disney in Concert, an evening of musical selections from Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins,...
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Alfred Hitchcock Early Films Retrospective
The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre presents the first in a three-part series this year exploring the works of Alfred Hitchcock. “Part I: The British...
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SNL humor called ‘blatantly anti-transgender’ by gay media watchdog, GLAAD [video]
”The violence, discrimination and harassment that transgender Americans experience each and every day is no laughing matter…. Saturday Night Live is a touchstone of American...
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Coverboy: Kory
There are currently 42 unique pieces of art on Kory's body. The tattoo enthusiast likes to get new ink about once a month – a...
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Virginia National Guard Gay Ban Bill Dies in Committee
Some news tonight from the Richmond Times-Dispatch: Attempts to ban gays from openly serving in the Virginia National Guard and, conversely, to have the Guard...
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Glee’s gay teenage dream, Darren Criss, visits Ellen Degeneres [video]
”It’s been really special for me because the character is something that I’m very personal about. It’s something that I believe in. It’s just so...
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MD Marriage Equality Effort Picks Up GOP Support
Sen. Allan Kittleman (R-Carroll, Howard), who had been supporting civil-union legislation in Maryland in recent weeks, today announced his support for full marriage equality —...
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David Pakman asks: What the difference between Dr. Laura & Westboro’s Shirley Phelps-Roper? [video]
Talk show host David Pakman said he looked up the beliefs of satellite radio advice guru Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and says he read that she...
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All of Us
There are different ways to mark the anniversaries of Us Helping Us, People Into Living Inc. Bishop Kwabena Rainey Cheeks formed the organization in 1985....
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Herndon Hideaway
Last summer, So Addictive Lounge started a gay night on Wednesdays. By November, Thursdays and Fridays had gone gay too. ''We were thinking about adding...
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Temperature Rising
Eddie Elias knows a thing or two about heating up and cooling down a room. He toiled for 12 years as a heating and air-conditioning...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: What gets big must get small. What seems dark carries the seeds of light. What was impossible may now be merely cutting edge....
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Magic Carpet Ride
Aladdin doesn't appear in Mary Zimmerman's The Arabian Nights. Neither does Sinbad the Sailor. Both fairy tales weren't originally part of the stories of Scheherazade,...
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Deconstructions
It's not often that a top Washington tourist destination aims to reach the stone-washed masses and the discerning, over-educated locals, but Ford's Theatre strives undaunted....
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Fractured Fairy Tale
Of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, the illustrious Dr. Johnson wrote: “To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names...
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Marine Life
While being discharged from the military just for being gay can deal a gut-wrenching blow to a member of the armed forces, it's certainly nice...
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Military Serenade
Mike Almy only came out to his parents after he became a leading activist pushing repeal of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. ''I...
