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Good for the Jews
A musical-comedy duo from New York, Rob Tannenbaum and David Fagin are “putting the Ha! in Hanukkah” on Christmas Eve with Good for the Jews,...
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All-Star Christmas Day Jazz Jam
Now in its 12th year, Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage presents the All-Star Christmas Day Jazz Jam, a free concert with host and vibraphonist Chuck Redd,...
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2010: Year in Review
JANUARY The transition from 2009 to 2010 was harsh, marked by a murder. The year's first issue of Metro Weekly reported on the shooting of...
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The Path Down the Aisle
Two weeks before the start of 2010, Mayor Adrian Fenty joined a crowd of about 200 at All Souls Unitarian Church where he signed the...
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Done Deal
Way back in 1993, I was a young activist filled with the desire to make the world a better place for gays and lesbians. Many...
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Banner Day
Saturday night's holiday concert by the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington began with director Jeff Buhrman saying to roaring applause, ''Today was a historic day,''...
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Where Bullies Are Born
Every morning, I spend my 30-minute commute from D.C. to Lorton, Va., listening to the Sports Junkies – four guys shooting the crap about all...
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Signing Is Not the End
Although President Barack Obama signed the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 into law on Wednesday, Dec. 22, the law remains in effect...
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Musical Chairs
When he assumes the role of mayor next month D.C. City Council Chairman Vince Gray (D) will be handing his council seat to Councilmember Kwame...
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Sympathetic Sleuths
It's been more than four years since Robert Wone was found dead inside the Dupont home of his gay college friend Joseph Price. And the...
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The Waiting Game
Leaving his spot as director of the Mayor's Office of GLBT Affairs at the end of 2010, as was expected with Mayor Adrian Fenty's departure,...
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Maryland's Marriage Push
The prize is the same, but the playing field has improved for activists seeking marriage equality in Maryland over the past three years. It was...
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Raise Your Glass
The year 2010 was as bad as -- or worse than -- 2009. But it ended with a gay bang, with the long-delayed, down-to-the-wire repeal...
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Some Enchanted Evenings
Okay. So, Nellie Forbush is no Cee Lo Green. While both deliver tunes that are incredibly infectious and sure to stay with you for a...
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A Bully Year
For young LGBT people, or simply those perceived to be, 2010 was a chilling year as headline after headline reported on those of them who...
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Western Stars
There are many words that would aptly describe Joel and Ethan Coen's latest film, True Grit, but the one that seems most appropriate is indulgent....
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Virtual Victims
Just like many of his million-plus users, Grindr founder and Chief Executive Joel Simkhai has met his share of men on his handy iPhone app....
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A Long Year — With a Well-Deserved End to DADT
On Jan. 27, President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress to give his State of the Union address. In it, he said, ''This...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: However hard you plan, however much you may take into account, there's always one thing more you haven't considered or acted on. Does...
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Advocacy Gets a Shot of Organized — and Organizational – Chaos
When then-Lt. Dan Choi and former Army infantryman James Pietrangelo II took a group of attendees at a Human Rights Campaign rally for the repeal...
