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Pastor Withdraws from Obama Inauguration over Anti-Gay Remarks
Rev. Louie Giglio, the pastor of the Georgia-based Passion City Church chosen to deliver the benediction at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, has removed himself...
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''Howard Three'' Accept Plea Deal
Three individuals accused of stabbing and attempting to rob a gay minor in front of the D.C.'s Howard Theatre in June pleaded guilty yesterday to...
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Delilah, the ultimate hair-stylist
The Washington Savoyards presents a staged concert, the D.C. premiere of ArtsCentric’s new musical Delilah featuring music by Cedric D. Lyles and book and lyrics...
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Haggling over Chuck Hagel
Everything old is new again. What goes around, comes around. Pissing in the wind brings ill returns. There are simply so, so many clichés to...
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Commitment to a Cure
As an emigrant from a developing country in Sub-Saharan Africa, I know firsthand what HIV/AIDS has done to my home country. In 1990, 1992 and...
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Art as Politics
''When do I get to vote on YOUR marriage?'' That's the question posed on a rainbow-bedecked T-shirt worn by one older, presumably gay, white man,...
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Floyd Lee Corkins Status Conference Continued
The status conference of a Herndon, Va., man accused of shooting a security guard at the D.C headquarters of the anti-LGBT Family Research Council (FRC)...
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Rocking the Chamber
For those of you who are reading about the Chamber for the first time, it's short for Capital Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce;...
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Social Contractions
If you've heard of British playwright Mike Bartlett, it's no doubt because of his provocative play Cock, which last season created a sensation off-Broadway –...
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Homeless
''We're in a bit of flux trying to figure out how best to accomplish everything that we'd planned,'' says WSC Avant Bard's Christopher Henley. That...
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Furr Sentenced to Probation, Community Service
Kenneth Furr, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer accused of shooting his service weapon while off-duty at a car of five people, including two transgender...
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Hunting Bin Laden
Zero Dark Thirty is not a ''pro-torture'' film. It's also not much of an ''anti-torture'' film, either, in so far as it isn't simply interested...
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Songs of Sandé
''I understand how it feels to feel different, and to feel like you want to find others, you want to find a community and be...
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MAL 2013
The 29th Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend has arrived a little earlier than usual this year. While it may be nice to gear up and kick back...
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Being Frank
Frank Nowicki says gay high school classmates of his still occasionally thank him for sticking up for them back then. ''I know you don't remember...
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Riding the Leather Express
During this 2013 Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend, one face will stand out in the crowd. Rather, at 6'5'' one face will stand above most of the...
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Leather and Feathers
It was a fixture in the D.C. gay community for 40 years, but on Oct. 31 The Leather Rack quietly closed. On Nov. 1, it...
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Two for Tea
''There are a lot of new things this year, because we didn't realize the Eagle was going to be open,'' says Patrick Grady, chairman of...
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Event Calendar
The host hotel for the 2013 Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend is the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Ave. NW. Events marked with...
