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Letter from DC Black Pride Board of Directors
May 26, 2010 Greetings DC Black Pride Attendees: The DC Black Pride Board of Directors would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to...
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Second-Place Showing
They didn't win first place -- but they put up one hell of a fight. Jonathan Howard, 29, and his fiancé Gregory Jones, 29, who...
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New Age
The 28-year-old gay composer Nico Muhly is already starting to feel old. ''The fact that I have a body of work makes me feel like...
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A Touch of Lace
Stepping off the Rhode Island Avenue sidewalk and into Lace for the first time, it's easy to imagine what Alice must've felt falling down the...
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Rooftop Revelry
''I've had people in their clothes, I've had people in no clothes, I've had 50 people in there at a time,'' Timur Tugberk says. He's...
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Fluff for Fans
Dear Sex and the City fans: Cheers! Everything you could have possibly wanted in a sequel to the first film, as a continuation of the...
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Pride Matchmaker
Need a date for Pride? Kim Rosenberg to the rescue. ''We're partnering with Capital Pride to kick off Pride for singles,'' says Rosenberg, president of...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Talk about a sea change. Is everything in flux, or is it just you as the shifts through which you're going simply color...
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Ophelia Outing
It is perhaps especially true for opera that there is a reason that some are not often staged. In the case of Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet,...
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Dan Choi reamains unsatisfied with President Obama’s “compromise” on gay military ban [video]
”The use of the word ‘compromise,’ I think, is a little bit too generous. A compromise assumes both sides have done something or given something....
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DADT Repeal Clears House
At 8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 27, Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.) was recognized to introduce Amendment No. 79 – compromise legislation to end the ''Don't Ask,...
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One Vote Down, Several (Votes and More) to Go
The Senate Armed Services Committee passed, on a 16-12 vote, the compromise language reached earlier this week intended to lead to the repeal of the...
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Maddow: Thursday may see House, Senate votes to repeal DADT, the ban on gay soldiers [video]
”Senators Ben Nelson, Susan Collins and Robert Byrd now reportedly saying they’ll vote for an Amendment to repeal the policy after Pentagon review. That means...
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Seeking Courage
It's hard not to feel like our country is broken. This is a feeling, of course, that's a bit selfish in its own way because...
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Opening the System
If you have ever driven by the papal nuncio's residence on Massachusetts Avenue, you may have seen a man standing in front who is protesting...
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Indecent Practices
On May 20, Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga were sentenced to 14 years hard labor in Malawi for ''unnatural offences'' and ''indecent practices between males.''...
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Fourth Suspect Arrested
Montgomery County Police announced last week, Wednesday, May 19, that a fourth arrest has been made in an investigation of the murder of Brian Betts....
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DC Black Pride Schedule of Events
Friday, May 28 Opening Reception, 7-10 p.m., in the Hamilton Ballroom, honoring the D.C. City Council, Charlotte Smallwood and Jeffrey Richardson. Refreshments and cash bar....
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Wright on Time
Just a few days after announcing that singer Mya had cancelled her appearance to headline Capital Pride’s annual Festival for medical reasons, the Capital Pride...
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Massachusetts argues against legality of Federal gay marriage law, DOMA
” gives us funding but tells us to treat one category of married people differently than another. It forces us to violate equal protection.” Massachusetts...
