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Furmansky Announces Departure
Dan Furmansky, executive director of Equality Maryland, announced on Wednesday, May 28, that he plans on leaving the organization that advocates for GLBT equality in...
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Harmonic Convergence
If ''Queering Sound'' is distorting, shaking up and subverting familiar sounds -- specifically what one might describe as ''gay music'' -- then ''Queering Sound 08...
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Whiplash
Recently, I happened to catch Raiders of the Lost Ark on the Sci Fi channel, which, in the weeks leading up to the highly anticipated...
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Shake-up at SMYAL
During her yearlong tenure as the executive director of the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL), Tasha Hill was never one to talk candidly about...
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Patio Politics
As the maxim has it, when it rains, it pours. Alan Goodwill and Latif Guler, the owners of Jack's Restaurant and Bar, would likely tell...
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Pretty In Punk
The Dresden Dolls emerged like a lightning bolt in 2003, fulfilling demand for a rock band merging the gay-popular counter-culture musical genres of cabaret and...
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Piano Gal
By the time she was only 11, Rachael Sage decided she wanted to be a singer-songwriter. Namely, a female Billy Joel. ''Why not? He was...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: In myths, Power usually chases and seduces Beauty. This time there's some role reversal. Do what it takes to land Prince Charming. Go...
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Brotherly Love
The scene: A very handsome, young Colonial man writing a letter inviting his ''dearest beloved'' to meet him at Independence Hall at the stroke of...
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Lindsay Lohan a lesbian? No! Maybe. Yes! Oh, wait…
“Samantha is an amazing girl… The entire family are really good friends of ours. There just — so silly.” — Dina Lohan. “They’re best friends....
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Transgender activist from Wisconsin killed while on Mexico vacation
“I did witness the murder and chased the accused…. The rest of our group is coping. I will say the Puerto Vallarta Police have been...
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High school yearbook pics of lesbian couples is focus of friction
“That’s not appropriate for a year book, an annual for 15 and 16 year old children. I just can’t buy this. This is disgusting.” Former...
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Philadelphia to Boy Scouts: Stop discriminating or pay the taxpayers rent
“They’re free to exercise their First Amendment rights…. What they’re not free to do is get a benefit from the city while violating our policy.”...
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Jodie Foster choosing ‘rising star’ Cindy over ‘beautiful Cydney?’
“The affair heated up last year, and the pair have been seeing each other since then…. She must have plain bowled Jodie over” — A...
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Transgender paratrooper smeared by UK press with non-existent dismissal compensation
“There is no £250,000 agreement, I have never sought £250,000 and neither would I accept it…. I have been trying to negotiate my resignation with...
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Birmingham mayor takes stance against Gay Pride on religious grounds
“I will not sign the proclamation! I will not sign the permit if it comes to me for the parade. And I will not authorize...
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Millions parade through Sao Paulo, Brazil for 12th Gay Pride
“This is the diversity the country wants, the diversity that we have to foster as a country seeking a tourist niche among the gay community.”...
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Olympic diver Matt Mitcham: Australia’s first major sports figure to come out
“We can’t afford for Lachlan to go at the moment. But Johnson & Johnson offer grants to go to Beijing and I’ve nominated Lachlan as...
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The gayer aspects of “Sex and the City”
“The character is — what’s the best way to say this? — slightly flamboyant. It’s a very specific kind of character that I am...
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Be careful who you break up with
“People are under the misguided perception that ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ means don’t show up to work in drag…. Many of our cases are about...
