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  • Attacker Sentenced

    Judge Harold L. Cushenberry Jr. on Feb. 6 sentenced Ruddad Abdulgader, originally from Sudan, to 30 months incarceration for participating in a bias-related hate crime...

  • Survey for Safety

    Washington is home to the mother lode of public and nonprofit entities that digest data, move society forward, and dole out funding for an infinite...

  • Express Yourself

    It's not always easy being gay, in the real world or the virtual. But while progress in the everyday world of work, society and relationships...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: There's a tendency to see your loved one as being more combative than usual, to your having to compromise more than usual. The...

  • Soundwaves

    Tracy Young D.C.'S YOUNG VALENTINE... Last fall, DJ Tracy Young spun in her hometown of Washington for the first time in way too many years,...

  • Devil's Reign

    Capturing a mood somewhere between Clive Barker's cult-classic Hellraiser and Ken Russell's hilariously creepy Lair of the White Worm, Synetic's no-holds-barred Dante's Divine Comedy is,...

  • Log Cabin Republican

    While it would be a stretch to say that it is the main question on the minds of Washingtonians discussing the re-opening of Ford's Theatre,...

  • Something Wicked

    Pauline Anson-Dross of Wicked Jezabel (Photo by Todd Franson ) Pauline Anson-Dross is ready for Cupid this year. ''Oh yeah, we're feeling the love...

  • Selling Porn

    It's all just a click away on the Internet, but local stores selling adult videos say they're not too worried. After all, the visuals might...

  • Keeping It Real

    In the years since pornography became perhaps the first commercially viable online business, the distinction between real and fantasy -- between amateur and professional, paid...

  • Local Hot Shots

    August Lacore was walking down Hollywood Boulevard when a porn producer ''discovered'' him. At 18, the Suitland, Md., native was soon in his first foursome...

  • Post-Porn

    Tag Adams can still hear director Chi Chi LaRue commanding him on set with her chosen nickname. ''I always knew when she would start out...

  • From the Top

    As the head of Channel 1 Releasing, Chi Chi LaRue is the Hugh Hefner of gay porn. From humble beginnings in tiny Hibbing, Minn., as...

  • XXX

    Many words come to mind when attempting to understand the rise of porn as a near-mainstream commodity in the gay world: Ingenuity. Technology. Business Savvy....

  • Attention Shoppers!

    Sometimes a movie is like an ice-cream cone. It's all sweet and sugary goodness, but there's nothing packed into the cone so it cracks and...

  • Minnesota goes for marriage-like rights with Project 515

    ”I had no right to make decisions about Eric’s remains. I felt betrayed and angry. After all, we had lived out our commitment to each...

  • Kathleen Turner joins Charles Busch in ‘The Third Story’

    ”My favorite was when Frank Rich wrote in The New York Times, ‘It doesn’t matter that the lady is a man....

  • Retrial nears end for Firefighters ‘harassed’ at Pride Parade

    ”The city’s best defense is, ‘Even if you were harassed, it was not severe or pervasive,’ The law is unclear, and the fact that this...

  • Lesbians granted divorce rights in New Jersey after Canadian marriage

    ”To grant the divorce here is not against public policy. It’s consistent with the strong marriage recognition principles that have been practiced since the 1800s.”...

  • Gay Marriage mash-up: VT maybe, NY not yet, WY shoots down constitutional ban

    ”This really is a great day and a part of moving forward to a time when all Vermont couples will be treated equally under our...