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Pioneering lesbian, Del Martin, dies at 87 [video]
”Ever since I met Del 55 years ago, I could never imagine a day would come when she wouldn’t be by my side I am...
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Why California plans to prevent gay inmates from marrying
”We’re still developing our official policies and procedures for complying with the court ruling. We have never permitted inmates to marry other inmates in the...
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Pakt-Man
Moving back to D.C. after seven years away, Jim Gade knew, for the most part, what he was coming back to. That doesn't mean he...
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Club Kudos
Extending the celebration of the just-ended Democratic National Convention -- and not likely to worry about missing its Republican counterpart, Sept. 1 to 4 --...
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Arrested Development
For the past three-and-a-half years, local transgender activist Earline Budd has volunteered her time on Wednesdays, visiting transgender inmates at the D.C. Department of Corrections'...
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Fighting Back with Love
As curious onlookers passed, in the early evening of Sunday, Aug. 24, a crowd of about 40 people sang as they held hands in a...
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Media Muddle
Some forms of media bias I can appreciate. For example, someone at The Washington Post got carried away in the August 21 issue with color...
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Jazz Singer
Robin McKelle Remember ''Abracadabra''? The Steve Miller Band's '80s hit was good cheesy pop, but it was less magic trick than novelty act. If you...
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Soundwaves
YOKO ONO'S PEACE DANCE... In a world coming increasingly unmoored, pleas for peace may seem naïve, but they're also very necessary. Just as she did...
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Sticky Fingers
Contemplation of the Post-Industrial Family surely ranks as one of the most indispensable themes of the modern playwright. What writer worth their salt can resist...
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Offending the Masses
Hamlet 2 is blasphemy, pure and simple. And it's not just the musical number ''Rock Me Sexy Jesus'' that's going to have people apoplectic; Shakespeare...
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Electric Company
In a time of four-dollar-a-gallon gas, nothing primes the pump of personal satisfaction quite like driving a hybrid. You can sigh with self-important relief as...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: There are a million relevant details -- or is that a million and three? They replicate like tribbles: The more you do, the...
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On the Outs
Love him or hate him, blog-reading Washingtonians know Mike Rogers. And his handiwork can be seen in some collapsed careers. Rogers is that boogeyman that...
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Past Personal
Being an early adopter in the world of blogging, Jim Barrett has learned a few lessons over time. ''I've learned not to write about family,...
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Strange Blogfellows
Born just a few months apart and thousands of miles from each other, both John Aravosis and Andrew Sullivan today call Washington home. And both...
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Heath and Home
Advances in technology are often heralded as labor-saving enhancements of our way of life. Yet the technology often seems to simply create avenues for even...
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The New Gay Way
Laura Varlas wasn't expecting the outpouring of responses to her blog post last April about lesbian business attire, what she dubbed ''lez casual.'' ''It was...
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Life in Real Time
The revolution came and it was blogged. Since the advent of personal blogs as an internet phenomenon, the new media format has literally changed the...
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From the Top
When John Flowers and his partner, David Muller, bought a small row house near Dupont Circle, the roof was one of the first projects they...
