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Hip Hop Girl Power
A little exposure goes a long way, particularly for the lesbian hip-hop duo God-Des & She. ''We've gotten a lot of Pride offers this year,...
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A Welcoming Home
Mara Levi jokes that during her early Capital Pride Mainstage set a couple years ago, she may have been seen as a bit of a...
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Her Time, Again
Dance music hitmaker and '90s pop sensation Crystal Waters has always had strong support from the gay community, in part because of her chosen genre...
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Letter from the Director of Capital Pride
Welcome to the 2007 Capital Pride Festival! It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the 32nd annual Capital Pride Festival. We hope...
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Evolving Pride
EVEN AFTER THREE decades, there's one thing you can say about Pride -- it keeps on changing. Since its beginnings in Dupont Circle, D.C.'s annual...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Are you feeling lucky, punk? I hope not. It's not the time or place to let important outcomes hang on merest chance and...
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To Be or Not To Be
It says so much about Tom Stoppard that he can write such a fun, irreverent and wit-packed play as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and...
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Gay and Yiddish
''For me to sing a standard Yiddish love song would kind of ring false. Pretending that I'm some straight loverboy -- it just doesn't work...
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Shipwrecked
There is a terrifically clever moment in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the third and unlikely final installment in the box-office blockbusting series,...
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Over The Rainbow
''This is the first 'gay' album I've ever released,'' jazz musician Dave Koz says about his new album, At The Movies, a tribute to movie...
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Gay in Court
Attorneys from GAYLAW, a local organization of GLBT attorneys, made a bit of history Tuesday morning, as they were sworn-in to the Bar of the...
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Marching Forward
There's something appropriate about all the uncertainty that surrounds this year's Dyke March. Just a few weeks ago, local folk singer Mara Levi found out...
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A Pride Trans-formation
With new protections for transgender people going into effect in October 2006, Washington has the distinction of leading the country in protecting the transgender community...
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Party with a Cause
It wasn't until the clock hit the 6 p.m. closing hour of D.C. Black Pride's ''Liberty, Unity, Strength'' Festival that R&B singer Monica finally made...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Maybe you've got it like that, and maybe you've fallen into believing the hype. With so much extra material swirling around the issues...
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Save the Clubs
I do not spend much time in nude dancing clubs. I nonetheless defend them for several reasons: Because adults in an international city like Washington...
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Row Your Boat
Out 2 Paddle, a gay rowing team sponsored by metropolitan Washington's Asian/Pacific-Islander Queers United for Action (AQUA), took the gold at the sixth annual Dragon...
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Debate Heats Up
For those who could not make it to the May 16 town-hall meeting called by Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. (D-Ward 5), at Bethesda Baptist Church...
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Power in numbers
About 100 people gathered at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Southwest Washington Thursday, May 17, for D.C. Fights Back's HIV/AIDS Speak Out. The goal: Start...
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Judge Hits D.C. Fire & Emergency Medical Services Agency
More than a decade has passed since the since Tyra Hunter, a transgender D.C. woman, died. But correcting the transphobic and homophobic culture of the...
