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D.C.'s Countdown to Destiny
There have been other Inauguration Days in U.S. history and many are yet to come. But on Jan. 20, 2009, America will break a long...
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Warm Welcome
While Cancun is Mexico's most popular tourist destination, the resort city has undergone many Sybil-esque changes in its nearly 40-year history. Until 1970, the area...
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Gay bishop, Gene Robinson, invited to speak Sunday at Obama’s Inauguration kickoff [video]
”I am writing to tell you that President-Elect Obama and the Inaugural Committee have invited me to give the invocation at the opening event of...
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Gay video game players celebrate ‘Fable II’
”There is a history of GLBT characters appearing in video games, but it’s few and far between. Assuming that we continue to develop games that...
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Florida conservatives using scare tactics against transgender restroom rights [video]
”We just want to live our lives with the basic civil rights that everyone else has.” Donna Lee, 60, a MTF post-op transgender woman who...
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PBS tucks away Sir Ian McKellen’s full-frontal performance
”If it’s a distraction of that sort, it’s not worth the candle…. Every night, when I’d take my clothes off, you know what I used...
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HRC’s Manly Man Dance Party
In just about a week and a half, the Human Rights Campaign will be making a big splash during the Obama Inauguration, with a ball...
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Proposition 8 contributors ask California court to hide their shame
”Several donors have indicated that they will not contribute to committee plaintiffs or similar organizations in the future because of the threats and harassment directed...
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Eleven gay bars receive bioterrorist threats in Seattle
”It’s probably nothing, but the economy is really screwing all the bars right now, and the last thing we need is something ramping up the...
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Now Hiring
The Capital Pride Alliance has announced that the search is on for an executive director to plan, manage and execute Capital Pride 2009, in what...
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Dancing With Obama
For months, Rick Garcia has been dealing with people who portray President-elect Barack Obama as ''at best half-hearted'' on GLBT issues. ''These are generally gay...
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No-Go for Rodeo
As images of the infamous Dust Bowl of the 1930s served as a backdrop to the Great Depression, D.C.'s GLBT community now has its own...
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Good-Bye Girls
Barbara Chinn (Photo by Patsy Lynch) Despite the anticipation of the Jan. 20 change in presidential administrations, generally much welcomed by the GLBT community, there...
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Happy Endings
When Douglas Carter Beane had the idea to write a play about the struggles of a closeted movie star, he initially dismissed it as old-fashioned...
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Stalled
Old men say the darndest things. Though sometimes those things are racial slurs so vulgar that they can't be printed here. In Gran Torino, Clint...
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Soundwaves
GRAMMY GIRLS (AND RUFUS)... Did you hear- Kathy Griffin did, in fact, get her Grammy nomination. You know, the one she was angling for. The...
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Smart Dance
Who you calling a bimbo: Bimbo Jones Katherine Ellis is a powerhouse vocalist, as self-assured and larger-than-life as if ripped straight out of a gay...
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Room to Zoom
2008 Mazda CX-7 Grand Touring Mazda has been all about the ''zoom zoom'' in recent years and, for the most part, has backed it up...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: A sense of hope is in the air, funnily enough. Perhaps we've touched bottom. Perhaps the longer days are to blame. Perhaps the...
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Big-Flea Bargains
The origin of the term ''flea market'' is a bit complicated. Google it and you'll find that some believe it's meant to describe buyers and...
