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  • LGBT-Rights Leaders Mark Transgender Day of Remembrance

    Activists and LGBT leaders across the globe are marking the 14th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance today as a means to raise awareness of the...

  • Congressman Calls for LGBT-Inclusive Immigration Reform

    In a column published by The Hill this afternoon, California Rep. Mike Honda (D) called on his fellow lawmakers to pass broad immigration reform that...

  • Nate Silver Credits His “Outsider” Status

    “I’ve always felt like something of an outsider. I’ve always had friends, but I’ve always come from an outside point of view. I think that’s...

  • Chamber Head Faces Misdemeanor

    Following an Oct. 26 incident, Mark Guenther, the executive director of the Capital Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, was charged Nov. 7 with...

  • New Charges Possible in Howard Theatre Stabbing

    The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia says it expects superseding indictments to be handed down in the next two weeks for the...

  • Coverboy: Eric

    Few people embody the idea of joie de vivre as much as this week's Coverboy. Having moved to Suitland, Md., from Toledo, Ohio, just three...

  • Oregon Lawmaker Becomes First Out Lesbian Speaker

    Oregon became the first state to elect an out lesbian speaker of a state legislature on Thursday in what was another victory for LGBT candidates...

  • Trial Set for Robinson

    The man accused of attacking a transgender woman in D.C.'s Chinatown neighborhood in August rejected a government plea offer Wednesday, prompting a D.C. Superior Court...

  • Virginia Board Stands Firm Against Cuccinelli

    Virginia's Board of Juvenile Justice this week re-endorsed a set of revised rules that protect LGBT youth. The move comes despite pressure from Attorney General...

  • Airlines and hotels top gay equality list

    Despite being intensely engaged in an effort to emerge from bankruptcy, American Airlines has been recognized for the 11th consecutive year by the Human Rights Campaign...

  • Days Go By

    Soap operas were a kind of omnipresent force of entertainment during my youth. Many of them are long gone by now, distant memories for aging...

  • Welcome to Missibama

    As we move into the holiday season, imagine a Southern town square with a resplendent Nativity scene on some warm December evening. Nearby, lights shine...

  • Maryland's Marriage Success

    The dust is beginning to settle after Maryland voters approved Question 6, a referendum on the Civil Marriage Protection Act, which grants same-sex couples access...

  • From Tuesday to Tomorrow

    It wasn't long after the first polls closed on the East Coast on election night that Republicans knew something was wrong. First Michigan was called...

  • Marking Transgender Day of Remembrance

    Local LGBT activists are readying their annual observance of the International Transgender Day of Remembrance. Sharing the same mission of mourning and education as other...

  • No Nest Yet

    As the saying goes, rumors of the demise of the DC Eagle are greatly exaggerated. Of course, there was that Facebook invitation to a Nov....

  • Swan Song

    Although the DC Eagle is expected to someday soon move out of the building it has called home since 1987, there is still plenty of...

  • Up Town

    In the early '90s, nationally recognized club singers, from Crystal Waters to CeCe Peniston, were the chief draw for gay nightclubs. Soon after, DJs became...

  • Folksy Feeling

    If your idea of a fun Saturday night is popping a cold one and tuning the radio to A Prairie Home Companion, then you should...

  • Lingering Accents

    ''I think it's a universal story that's quite specific to this moment in time in America,'' says Arena Stage's artistic director Molly Smith, who directed...