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  • Megilla Guerilla

    Get your straight on, people! Hearsay has gotten word from its chief informant Sweetie Tweetie Bird that the next Guerilla Queer Bar DC — you...

  • Money Pit

    Hearsay was no fan of the reportedly homophobic Queen of Mean, and its jaw dropped when it read that hotel magnate Leona “Pillow Mints” Helmsley,...

  • Casting a Web

    The D.C.-based National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) announced Aug. 15 that the organization is joining those who already broadcast online, such as the Human Rights...

  • Fingers do the walking

    The Mayor's Office of LGBT Affairs announced recently the release of a comprehensive directory listing GLBT-related organizations, ranging from A Common Bond, a group for...

  • State Capital Pride

    It's been eight years since Rev. Wayne Schwandt, a pastor at the Metropolitan Community Church of the Chesapeake, suggested having a Pride festival in Annapolis....

  • Gender Confusion

    It's hard to imagine what Virginia Grace Soto went through during the two days she spent at a male detention center at the D.C. jail....

  • Super Duper

    Since the early '80s, the high school male coming-of-age comedy has become almost as much a rite of passage as the actual event itself. Each...

  • Hey Hey So So

    It's a corny enough album title, but you'll certainly be laughing within seconds as Hey Hey My My Yo Yo opens. After two measures of...

  • Hororscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: That trash talk was bound to catch up with you one day. You need to put your skills into action to make good...

  • Silent Weapon

    Some shows are almost impossible to review. This isn't because they are bad plays. In fact, those are actually the easiest to work with. There...

  • Soundwaves

    From YouTubeAnnie Lennox: Little Bird ANNIE LENNOX'S 'MASS' APPEAL... Annie Lennox will finally return this fall after a four-year absence. This time out, Lennox has...

  • Classic Dance

    Six years ago, Bobby T would have laughed if you told him he'd one day be a DJ. At the time he didn't even like...

  • A Paramount Birthday

    Hearsay wants to take a moment and wish a very special lady a very Happy Birthday. Her name is Annie, and she’s Paramount. (Not to...

  • Hello, World!

    test.mp3   Yes, one could say that header is a shameless steal from Apple Computers, and one would be absolutely, 100% correct. That’s because when...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: They do it with smoke and mirrors -- or that's what you hope to prove with all your extra efforts searching for the...

  • Graceland

    Next week I take my umpteenth trip to Provincetown. Why do I keep going back? Because there is something warm and comforting about returning to...

  • Homebodies

    When my African boyfriend Patrick arrived in Washington last month on his first visit to America, his top priority was to find a gym. He...

  • HAA Hire

    Mayor Adrian Fenty announced on Thursday, Aug. 9, Dr. Shannon Hader as the new director of the city's HIV/AIDS Administration (HAA). Hader follows former agency...

  • Trans Job Training

    While Washington has some of the best civil-rights protections for transgender residents of any jurisdiction in the country -- or the world, for that matter...

  • Mixed Schoolbag

    Continuing her introduction to the District, the new chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), Michelle Rhee, cleared her calendar Monday night to...