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Pumped for Pride
Here's a tidbit that might surprise you: The person RuPaul admires most is... Judge Judy. ''I love her!'' exclaims the performer who skyrocketed to national...
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Pro-Gay, Pro-Choice
As night fell on May 31, the candlelight vigils around the country for the murdered Dr. George Tiller included one at Dupont Circle. Several dozen...
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Crossing Over
The band The Sounds makes music that's every bit as derivative as Lady Gaga's, and the Swedish band's ambitions seem every bit as bald as...
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I [HEART] Stonewall
''What would it look like if everyone came together to experience a totally different quality of event?'' That's the question Vance Garrett asked himself when...
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Landmark Plays
''We wanted to create a very relaxed atmosphere to celebrate and learn about ourselves and our history,'' says Ganymede Arts' Jeffrey Johnson. His theater's current...
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Feeling Loopy
Generally, when reading a theater review in Metro Weekly, you don't see Many ''I'' statements. ''I liked this.'' ''I didn't like that.'' ''I had trouble...
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Great Company
Those sentient during the excesses of the 1980s may recall The The's memorable big-band pastiche Twilight of a Champion in which a scathing Matt Johnson...
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Evita's Closet
Did you know Eva Peron's corpse was perfectly preserved? Or that her mummy was lost for years? ''I just knew part of her story before...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: It's going to be a humdinger of an informational experience. And the emotional component won't be easily shoved aside. How will you keep...
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DC Radical Faeries
If it weren't for the burning incense and the shrine built to honor the Roman goddess Juno (for whom the month of June is named),...
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Bod Jobs
The season is upon us. Maybe you haven't made it to Rehoboth or some similarly gay, sunshiny holiday spot just yet this year, but that...
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Nickles Says No
D.C. Attorney General Peter J. Nickles issued an opinion today, June 11, advising the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics to reject a proposed referendum...
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Creigh Deeds: Virginia’s Democrats choose flip-flopper on gay marriage rights
”Marriage to me is between a man and a woman. I voted for the constitutional amendment in 2005 and 2006. I voted for that issue...
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Finally: Adam Lambert comes out for Rolling Stone mag
””I don’t think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I’m gay… I’m proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It’s just...
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Supreme Court rejects request to hear gay soldiers’ case against Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
”I think this decision is an absolute travesty of justice and I think every judge on this court should be ashamed of themselves…. The Supreme...
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Frank Kameny, 84, to be honored at D.C. Pride
“To the government and lawyers we were criminals. To the religious people we were sinners. To the psychiatrists we were sick,” he said. “There was...
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AIDS Quilt founder, Cleve Jones: New Gay March On Washington this October 11 [video]
”It is time to march again. Time to end this state-by-state, county-by-county, city-by-city struggle for equality and rip apart the patchwork of inequality that it...
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The Righteous Riots
There was a time when the phrase ''Stonewall'' was more likely to conjure images of the Civil War than of Greenwich Village. Then again, perhaps...
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Here's Valerie!
''I feel like there's momentum now, finally in the country, toward sanity,'' says Valerie Harper. The veteran actress, this year's Capital Pride Celebrity Grand Marshall,...
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Kickin' It with Cowboys
The DC Cowboys have been hot in Washington since forming in 1994, long before they appeared on the third season of America's Got Talent in...
