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Heavenly Round-Up: It's a heavy time. There's a lot going down. And the holidays haven't even gotten off the ground. Yet there's a sense of...
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HHS Finishes Hospital Visitation Rules
In a call with reporters on Wednesday, Health and Human Services Department officials discussed the final rules submitted today regarding hospital visitation policies for hospitals...
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Angels in America Part I at Shenandoah Conservatory
This weekend, Shenandoah Conservatory, part of Shenandoah University in conservative Winchester, Va., mounts a production of the first part of Tony Kushner’s award-winning 1993 masterpiece,...
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Special Agent Galactica lands tonight at ACKC
Special Agent Galactica, DC’s “Chanteuse of Sync,” presents an intimate cabaret performance at ACKC tonight for two half-hour sets of “Galactica and the Chocolate Factory.”...
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Hair at the Kennedy Center
Equal parts revival and outright rave, there is something slightly bizarre about mounting Hair in the red velvet box that is the Kennedy Center’s Opera...
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The Legacy of Laramie
As part of the Arena Stage productions of The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, Metro Weekly and Arena Stage will host...
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Coverboy: Omar
11-18-10 COVERBOY Omar Omar came out just one year ago and has found support and friends while working at Town Danceboutique. The 25-year-old Northern Virginia...
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Girlyman at the Barns at Wolf Trap
Girlyman, a sweet and sensitive queer quartet of three girls and a boy creates its own soaring three-part harmony in the acoustic-leaning folk-pop manner of...
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Stale Air
So, here's what I've been struggling with lately: I'm 42 at the moment and will all-too-soon turn 43. It's not my age that's nagging me...
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History Repeating
There's a project I'm working on that is fascinating me. It involves scanning loads of old photos. One, in particular, is captivating. My late Uncle...
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Ups and Downs of a Lame Duck
Visit Metro Weekly's Poliglot for further updates to this story. As the first week of the lame-duck Congress opened, the LGBT advocates who have been working...
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World Bank Relents
On Nov. 10, Metro Weekly reported that Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) had been listed as an eligible organization in the World...
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Expanding Effort
More than 60 people applied for a part-time, paid position, to become the first HIV program associate at The Center, the area's LGBT community center....
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Love Game
Tennis icons Billie Jean King, Andre Agassi, Martina Navratilova and other players joined forces at American University on Monday, Nov. 15, and raised more than...
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Colorado Springs student allowed to wear ‘Marriage is so gay’ shirt
”The ACLU contacted me actually because they saw my story and I had wanted to but hadn’t gotten around to it yet. My rights were...
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Laramie Project at Arena Stage
New York theater troupe Tectonic Theater stops at the brand new Arena Stage as part of the national tour of both the original Laramie Project...
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Obama Calls Levin With “Commitment” to Lame-Duck DADT Repeal; Reid’s Office Commits to NDAA Vote
This afternoon, White House spokesman Shin Inouye told Metro Weekly that President Obama had spoken with one of the Senate leaders of “Don’t Ask, Don’t...
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GALA’s 6th Annual Flamenco Festival
Part of GALA Theatre’s ArteAmericA series in collaboration with the Washington Performing Arts Society, the Flamenco Festival explores the diversity and depth of flamenco and...
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Get Equal’s McGehee: “I don’t, for a second, plan on backing down.”
Get Equal’s Robin McGehee told me in March, “Our goal is not to be the person who gets to be in those negotiations.” She added,...
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GLEE’s bully takes time to talk to gay youth with online video
”Recently I’ve had the opportunity to sit down and talk to a lot of you out there, and it’s been a privilege. It’s been awesome....
