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  • With this Ring

    Diamonds are forever. But the monthly payments don't have to be, given both online and in-store options that can be tailored to fit your needs....

  • Catering to You

    Speak with a variety of caterers and you're likely to come away with some reliable maxims. First, there are vast variables in budgeting for a...

  • Dollars and Scents

    Generally speaking, there are two times in your life you'll be celebrated with flowers. The difference with your wedding is that you'll get to enjoy...

  • Wedding Snappers

    Your Uncle Sal is a great guy -- maybe he's even a great photographer. But you should think long and hard before making him your...

  • Finding Your Place

    Washington has already seen a string of wedding ceremonies in high-profile locations since marriage equality became a reality -- from the Human Rights Campaign's Equality...

  • Hand Holders

    You're getting married to have someone to hold your hand for better or worse. So why not hire a professional to hold your hand as...

  • Time to Tie the Knot

    As D.C. enters its second month of same-sex couples being able to obtain marriage licenses, some wonder if – as with California and Maine –...

  • Wedding Resources

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  • Second Act

    I'll admit it — when I first heard the news of Ricky Martin's coming out, I greeted it with the mental equivalent of a yawn....

  • Time to Step Up

    Thousand-dollar-a-plate dinners are like abortions or same-sex marriages: If you don't approve of them, don't have one. We all make choices based on our views,...

  • Grease is the (Gay) Word [video]

    You've never seen Grease like this. On the weekend of March 19, at GWU's Lisner Auditorium, the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C., produced an...

  • Deciphering the Data

    Standing at a lectern in front of the Wanda Alston House, one of the nation's few transitional homes specifically for LGBT youth, Thursday, March 25,...

  • Meeting and Greeting the GLLU

    Rather than contention, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers and members of the local LGBT community were greeted with chocolate cupcakes, sandwiches and live music on...

  • Gods Forsaken

    ''Just accept it.'' That's the advice given to Perseus when he discovers a sword from the gods in the forest. There's no good explanation for...

  • Hot Sauce

    ''I didn't realize how many salseros we have out there,'' says J. Martin. After repeated requests from the community, the lesbian Latino party promoter teamed...

  • High Notes

    It seems that, for as long as there have been people, there have been individuals trying to map dividing lines. To determine the boundaries between...

  • War Room

    In keeping with its mission to stage vintage treasures, The American Century Theater brings us Donald Bevan's and Edmund Trzcinski's Stalag 17 in its original...

  • Sheehan's Retreat

    Less than two weeks after retired Gen. John J. Sheehan told the Senate Armed Services Committee that a Dutch general had told him that openly...

  • Gay college play cancelled: Terrence McNally’s “Corpus Christi” still too hot for Texans

    ”I’m very upset that we had to cancel this. It was a very well-done production. But I could not have lived with myself if someone...

  • General Sheehan apologizes for “inaccurate recollection,” but not for disliking gay troops

    ”I am sorry that my recent public recollection of those discussion of 15 years ago inaccurately reflected your thinking on some specific social issues in...