Please share your memories of Cheryl Spector below. ''Cheryl and I met in the early 1990s during the days of Queer Nation and ACT UP....
If you've never been to a rodeo before, you might not know what ''Calf Roping,'' ''Chute Dogging'' or ''Goat Dressing'' are. But if the country-western...
When she began her career as a racetrack veterinarian in the late 1980s, Linda Molesworth was something of a novelty at Maryland racetracks. As a...
Russell (not his real name) is a closeted, conservative priest whom I have known for 30 years. He is active with an anti-abortion ministry. I...
GenderPAC, the D.C.-based, human-rights organization working to eliminate gender stereotypes, released its 2007 GENIUS Index, tracking efforts in academe to promote awareness of and prohibit...
When Walker Chaffin, tournament director of the Capital Tennis Association (CTA), asked attendants of last year's Capital Classic Tournament, via e-mail, how things could be...
Despite the fact that José Gutierrez is one of Washington's prominent gay, Latino activists, he says he has never received an invitation to take part...
What happens when a dedicated scene idolizes female vocal pyrotechnics a tad too much? In today's gay club scene, you could say Jason Walker is...
Heavenly Round-Up: Now is a good time to see old problems with new eyes. Now is a good time to greet the bubbling emotional sludge...
If you polled the typical Woolly Mammoth audience you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn't agree that: 1) American Christian missionaries who go to...
When is an obsession a good thing? When it's in the hands of a genius like Beethoven. Or, in the case of 33 Variations, when...
Talking to Bruce Ward about his play, Lazarus Syndrome, is like navigating a minefield -- albeit one in which you long to step on the...
Cheryl Ann Spector After a 10-week battle with leukemia, local lesbian activist Cheryl Ann Spector died on Tuesday, Sept. 4, at the George Washington University...
CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER University of Maryland College Park, Md. 301-405-ARTS www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu Margaret Jenkins Dance Company - A Slipping Glimpse -- Dancers from India's...
The Leona saga continues, even in death. All Hearsay can say is: A bitch in life. A bitch in death. And one very rich bitch...
The 2007 Chesapeake Pride Festival was hot. Not ''mid-Atlantic summer social calendar'' hot, but simply hot. Really, really hot. And humid. But that didn't stop...
Heavenly Round-Up: In the heart of all those details lies a mystery. At the bottom of the hassle resides a profound truth. Beyond the myriad...
The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, arguably among the most influential clubs in District politics, on Aug. 22 announced the recipients of its annual leadership awards....
The Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency has reimbursed Whitman-Walker Clinic, the main organizer behind Washington's Capital Pride parade and street festival, more than $14,000...
Cecilia ''C.C.'' Ford has come a long way since losing her partner, Delores ''Dee'' Smith, last year. Smith died from causes that remain obscure, Ford...