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Pride's Rainbow
''Oh, there's Chuck Bell! He said it wouldn't rain on our parade, and it didn't!'' NBC4 news anchor Wendy Rieger, returning as lively emcee for...
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Empowered in Mount Pleasant
On June 8 La Clinica del Pueblo welcomed members of the local LGBT community to see the site that will house its youth drop-in center,...
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Founder's Fight Ends
Over the past several months, Jerome Sikorski was a regular -- though emotional -- part of his friend Jerry Filbin's days. ''I saw him twice...
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DOJ Dollars for D.C.
Fill in the blank. That's what Morgan Lynn, supervising attorney at Women Empowered Against Violence Inc. (WEAVE), and others, asked LGBT people and allies to...
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NOM's Deep Pockets
The Gay and Lesbian Activist Alliance (GLAA) alerted D.C. voters this week that Robert ''Bob'' King of Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 5A has received a...
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Sudden Departure
During a news conference on Tuesday, June 8, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty announced that Dr. Shannon Hader has resigned from her position as senior deputy...
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Creating Joy
Ric Sena was organizing parties as early as age 13. ''I remember my mother saying, 'All the kids are on the beach,''' recalls Sena, who...
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Family Feuding
Last Thursday morning, June 10, the humidity was already thick by 9 a.m. But that's D.C. No surprise there. Still, it was a beautiful morning,...
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The Wedding Singer
Elton John's performance during the celebration of Rush Limbaugh's fourth attempt at successful matrimony has become like the inappropriate and unwanted wedding gift that keeps...
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Unsaintly Actions
When Proposition 8 was passed in California during the 2008 elections, not only did it put a stop to marriages for same-sex couples in the...
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True Stories
When truth can be stranger than fiction, documentaries can eclipse feature films in their ability to enthrall, entertain and educate. Now in its eighth year,...
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Spiritual Cinema
Lately, all the buzz about Buddha in the District of Columbia has belonged to Buddha Bar, the überhip restaurant/lounge chain of the jetseteratti, welcoming Washington...
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Diva Duel
''I think the fact that this ridiculous play -- in the best sense of the word -- is being done in this what I would...
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Suffragette City
For those who tend to think of late Victorian/early Edwardian feminism in terms of the insuppressibly cheerful suffragette mother in Mary Poppins, George Bernard Shaw's...
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Electro Buzz
On new single ''Dancing On My Own,'' Robyn catches her boyfriend cheating on her at a club. ''I'm in the corner, watching you kiss her,...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You're so busy revisiting old business, it's hard to see where to find time and space for the new matters at hand. Could...
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Ending With a Bang
The prosecution in the Robert Wone conspiracy trial ended on a strong note this week, even as the judge in the case awarded the defense...
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Philadelphia Boy Scouts: We have the right to discriminate against gays and keep $1 rent of city’s property
”They wanted to force Cradle of Liberty to say something that Cradle of Liberty doesn’t have to say.” Jason Gosselin, a representative for the Cradle...
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Gay Minnesota police officer files discrimination suit over harassment
”He tried so many times to deal with it internally because he did not want to have his career derailed by this…. He wasn’t flaunting...
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Germany recognizes gay marriage from Canada as ”registered partnership”
“The court agreed with the view of the authorities that he could not be registered as ‘married’ because a marriage under German law requires different-sex...
