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Welcome to Washington, America’s gayest city: Advocate
Kudos, Washingtonians! You live in the gayest city in the country. America’s Gayest City: Washington, D.C. Kudos, Washingtonians. You’re a part of the gayest city...
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Hunger Strike Update: Court halts gay marriages in Utah, Meacham wants pizza
On Monday, the Supreme Court ordered same-sex marriages in Utah to stop until a federal appeals court can further examine the issue. The decision is...
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Supreme Court blocks same-sex marriages in Utah
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday ordered a halt to same-sex marriages in Utah while the case is appealed. In a brief order that offered no...
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HRC Backs Wexton in Virginia's District 33 Race
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest LGBT civil rights group, is endorsing Democrat Jennifer Wexton in her bid to replace Attorney General-elect Mark...
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D.C. Gay Candidates Gearing Up for 2014
2014 promises to be another banner year for the District's LGBT community, which enjoys – at least on paper – almost full equality with the...
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DC Center Elects Officers
The board of directors for The DC Center, the District's LGBT community center, on Jan. 3 announced the center's new board members and officers for...
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Man on hunger strike against gay marriage: “It will end when this stops or I am dead.”
Just consider him a modern, equality-hating, historically confused Gandhi. A 35-year-old Utah man has decided to fast until the state nullifies marriage equality. Trestin Meacham...
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Going Paleo: Can modern man live without cheese, pickles or Tostitos?
Sometimes change occurs in the most innocuous of ways. Like, say, at a big gay dinner where a couple of friendly, fit gay strangers extol...
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A Wintry Mix
As the temperatures plummet, snow falls around the Washington D.C. area and we ease into the heart of winter, it’s time to think about some...
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Magazine: 2014-01-02 edition (PDF)
Metro Weekly – 01-02-14 – Year in Scene by MetroWeekly
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Gay travel survey finds leisure trips up, New York City a big draw and free WiFi important
For the 18th year, San Francisco-based Community Marketing, Inc. (CMI) has released key findings from its annual LGBT travel survey. Here are CMI’s top ten...
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2014: Year in Preview
When you're done enjoying all the Scene shots from 2013, have a taste what's ahead in the coming year. (All information subject to change.) JANUARY...
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District of Dance
''Our intent,'' says Carla Perlo of Dance Place, ''is to shed light on the fact that yes, we have world-class companies that have chosen to...
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Coming Up Roses
Last year it was Dreamgirls. The year before, Hairspray. And now Signature Theatre has staged another holiday season treat, what you might call the mother...
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Flashback: Ten 80s Classics that missed the Top 40
As we’ve seen over the years, chart position isn’t everything. There are songs that scale the upper reaches of the pop charts that don’t make...
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Finding a Lost Son
I begin with a spoiler alert: If you have not seen the movie Philomena, you may want to see it before reading further. It is...
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The Year in Scene 2013
Photographs by Ward Morrison, Christopher Cunetto, Todd Franson, Rhuaridh Marr and Randy Shulman. // Visit Metro Weekly's Scene section to see all of our
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Utah urges Supreme Court to block same-sex marriages
Utah asked the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to bring a halt to same-sex marriages in the heavily Mormon state. In a stay request filed with...
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Movie Review: Saving Mr. Banks
Saving Mr. Banks is the tale of how the legendary Walt Disney, after an arduous 20-year ”wooing” process, finally wrested the rights to Mary Poppins...
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2013 ends with flurry of advances for marriage equality
The year it set to end after a series of victories for marriage equality in numerous states, culminating with one federal court’s decision leading to...
