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  • Permanent Tribute

    Those volunteers and caregivers who have responded to the calls of the HIV/AIDS crisis will soon be getting a permanent tribute. On July 14, the...

  • Public Opinion

    The Metropolitan Police Department is asking Washington's gay community to offer input before finalizing any plans to ''enhance'' access to all of its liaison units,...

  • Seeing the 'T' in GLBT

    If you haven't been to Unity Fellowship Church in Northwest in the past two weeks, you might not know that it's Transgender Awareness Month. But...

  • Blessing in Disguise

    Just a few short weeks ago, Cheryl Spector was devastated when her apartment caught fire and destroyed some of the hundreds of videotapes, photographs and...

  • Gay Guitar Slingers

    When folk-rock singer-songwriter Eric Himan first started performing at gay clubs six years ago, people thought it was an act. ''You know how strippers dress...

  • Home Is Where the Camp Is

    Given the theme of the magazine that I'm sure you've come to expect thus far, I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I've actually never been...

  • Campastrophic: Of Moonwalks, Musicals and Mishkuntas

    July 20, 1969, nighttime. Crickets are chirping. A warm breeze gently sifts through the trees, rustling the leaves. A small, black-and-white TV emits a glow...

  • Boys and Balls

    As summer-camp memories go, mine are scant. I've settled for the vicarious pleasure of listening to my gay pal, Mike, share his memories of charmed...

  • Camp Out

    Ah, summer, the season most attuned to the coming of age of the all-American boy -- even the all-American gay boy. And what's more representative...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: Is it hot enough for you? No, not the external climate -- the nature of the weather on your insides. You've been called...

  • Arc of Progress

    I spent last Saturday in a video-watching marathon with Noah's Arc, the black gay dramedy that ran for two seasons on the Logo channel. I...

  • Safety first

    High school may be over for recent graduate Robin Greenwood, a lesbian from Dearborn, Mich., but she's not going to write off the four years...

  • Wrapping up GLLU's loose ends

    It was not a technical error. Washington's Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit's volunteer-operated Web site, www.gllu.org, was intentionally taken down for three days last week....

  • Signature Style

    Ask Eric Schaeffer what he loves most about musicals and here is the answer you get: ''I just love how musicals are about big emotions,...

  • The Rainbow Samaritan

    The pleas for pink dollars are never ending, an annoying byproduct of the increasingly well-oiled machine of GLBT politicking. Whether it's to fight HIV/AIDS, gain...

  • Bad Girl

    Here it is, another summer already. Time to fire up the barbeque -- and then cue up another summer anthem from Rihanna. Is the third...

  • Medical Incredible

    The main problem with any Michael Moore movie these days is that Michael Moore made it. Before the reels begin to turn, a lot of...

  • Soundwaves

    WHEN 'NO, NO, NO' MEANS YES...America had to wait several years, but we've quickly become addicted to Amy Winehouse. The British R&B sensation's single, ''Rehab,''...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: Dreaming of a different kind of Independence Day? You're tied with the myriad gossamer threads of mutual obligation and unique responsibility. It's put-up-or-shut-up...

  • 35's a Charm

    A jukebox instead of a DJ -- at a dance club? ''I'm serious as a heart attack,'' says Chuck Bowers about Baltimore's Hippo when it...