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Heavenly Round-Up: Are those chickens coming home to roost, or merely the distorted gossip returning from a game of ''telephone''? If it doesn't end up...
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Homophobia Reaffirmed
There are many things one could say about the scandal involving disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.). It is foremost a tale of an individual's...
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Independent Ink
The D.C. area will get a dose of GLBT counterculture this weekend, when ''SPX'' -- or, the Small Press Expo: North America's Premiere Independent Cartooning...
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Kameny's Gay Paper Trail
For nearly half a century, Franklin Edward Kameny has been indispensable in creating the American gay rights movement. And he saved everything, squirreling away documents,...
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Anger Management
Given the explosion of courtroom dramas on television over the past decade, it might seem unnecessary to go to the Kennedy Center to watch another...
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The Naked Now
''I am good at being naked.'' In the nonstop cascade of language that makes up Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire, this single line forms...
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Reel Affirmations 16
Here's your advanced look at this year's Reel Affirmations festival presentations, from Thursday, October 12 - Saturday, 21, 2006: Reviews by Tom Avila, Sean Bugg,...
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Gay Is Good
Frank Kameny's life in the upper Northwest, Palisades corner of Washington looks quiet enough. The retiree lives in a modest home on a serene, tree-lined...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Material long deferred rises up and confronts issues of self-control, passion and obsession --but in a good way. There's more and deeper yet...
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Puppy Love
New moms and dads and parents-to-be are often taken aback and a little incredulous when I offer, excitedly, to babysit. They think I'm being polite....
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Paging Mark Foley
As October surprises go, the Mark Foley IM imbroglio is the Washington scandal that keeps on giving. Congressman Mark Foley (R-Fla.) resigned abruptly on Sept....
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Power Walking
As the D.C. AIDS Walk took its first steps on the Washington Mall in the spring of 1987, Pat Hawkins and the 100 or so...
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Fur Fever
Fur may be named for the now-verboten warming garments once made in the nightclub's warehouse space, but these days it generates heat as one of...
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Killer Queen
In The Queen, Helen Mirren, portraying Queen Elizabeth II, gives perhaps her most remarkable performance in an already remarkable career. She vanishes completely into the...
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Force of Nature
Arena Stage's new production of Cabaret is a force of nature -- a thunderstorm that starts as the rumble of gin-fueled laughter and ends with...
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Soundwaves
GEORGE MICHAEL'S POTTY MUSIC... Oh no, not again. According to the Associated Press, late last Saturday night George Michael was found in London slumped over...
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Ball Breaker
Do you find it sexy for a man to hurl, smash or crack mirrored disco balls? It may sound sacrilegious to gay culture, but there's...
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Oh, Henry
It's good, but it's not great. We're not talking, of course, about the timeless music from Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe or the original George...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You could tune in to the sense of structure that's been welling up in your life. You could resolve to be more productive,...
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What About Poly?
Not long ago, hundreds of progressive academics and activists issued a manifesto calling for health care and jobs for all, universal peace, an end to...
