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Trans Regs Advance
The D.C. Commission on Human Rights, the city's Office of Human Rights entity with authority over private sector human-rights complaints, took a step May 11...
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Honored Quartet
For 25 years, the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C. (GMCW) has been fulfilling a mission ''to entertain through excellent musical performance, to affirm the...
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Adult Drown
Well, they've gone and done it. They've stripped the ''adventure'' out of The Poseidon Adventure, leaving, fittingly enough, just Poseidon. That's not to say Wolfgang...
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Soundwaves
Belmares ALEGRIA BY ANOTHER NAME... Roland Belmares has spun for party promoter and former DC resident Ric Sena before, at Sena's Alegria in New York,...
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Italian Delight
Captivating: Borodina(Photo by Karin Cooper) Bubbly buoyancy brings the Washington National Opera season to a close in a nicely-conceived high-energy production of Rossini's L'Italiana in...
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Out of Time
''Forgive me, but I don't follow.'' So says Mary, one of Eric Overmyer's three time-traveling dames in On the Verge or the Geography of Yearning,...
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State of Mind
It's been a busy a time in Maryland. And that suits Dan Furmansky just fine. The 32-year-old executive director of Equality Maryland, the state's most...
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Where's the wedding?
The Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, which opposes gay marriage, has just issued a new report finding that relatively few gay couples are getting...
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Rough and Tumble
The tumbleweed, it turned out, was a harbinger. I was a passenger in a car traveling down a small highway in Idaho and the tumbleweed...
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Task Force Titans
From enthusiastic political polemics to impassioned calls for GLBT activism to make its home both in the city and on the range, the stage at...
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Pink Politicking
Five of the district's front-running Democratic mayoral hopefuls entered the rainbow arena Monday night for a political forum that included some verbal fireworks, a literal...
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Mission Forgettable
Mission: Impossible III should end with a warning: ''This movie will self-destruct in 5 seconds.'' I'm not kidding. Five seconds after leaving the big kickoff...
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Secret Service
In a time of war, a good man is hard to find. Which makes it all the more frustrating that the U.S. military continues to...
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Titus on the Potomac
Take a beautiful sunset as seen from the Kennedy Center balcony, add a warm wind off the Potomac, throw in a glass of bubbly, and...
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Captive Audience
Stop me if you've heard this one before: An Irishman, an Englishman and an American are kidnapped and tossed together in a dark and dirty...
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Be Bar scores a victory
The seven members of the district's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board voted unanimously Wednesday afternoon, May 3, to seat only ANC 2F as a protestant of...
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Soundwaves
REPLAY RIHANNA... Last summer, Rihanna, a native of the Caribbean island of Barbados, had a hit with ''Pon de Replay.'' It's not hard to understand...
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Pulse of the People
Ranging from alarm to hope, a panel of D.C.'s black gay leaders strove to outline what they saw as the state of their community as...
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Sand Pebbles
In case you've never studied women's history and you're not entirely sure who George Sand was, don't count on getting a thorough lesson from MetroStage's...
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Punky Brew
''For all my life,'' Ariel Aparicio sings in a raspy voice, ''I wanted to be in a cool as fuck band.'' He's now fulfilled that...
