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  • The Year in Music

    Twenty-ten will go down as the year of gay pop. Oh sure, at least a couple openly gay pop stars have gotten our attention most...

  • Tattooed Troubadour

    Egos were checked at the January ''Hope for Haiti'' concert telethon, with none of the performers identified by name. It was a small gesture of...

  • True Spirit

    ''There are pieces of what being gay is about that aren't really being discussed,'' says singer-songwriter Matt Alber. ''Being gay, I see things in a...

  • Musical Stocking Stuffers

    ''You better watch out, you better not cry. You better not pout, I'm telling you why: Santa Claus is swinging in town.'' Yep, it's that...

  • Stringing Along

    ''It's hard to make a mandolin sound sad. You can play it in a minor key, but it's got a sprightly tone,'' says Catie...

  • Eating Out: All You Can Eat

    Reel Affirmations 2009 Review by Doug Rule Rating: (1 out of 5) Friday, 10/23/2009, 9:00 PM Feature presentation, $10 at Shakespeare Theatre's Harman Center for the Arts ...

  • Sensitive Singers

    Over two and a half years ago, Duncan Sheik produced the debut album from gay pop singer Chris Garneau. Music for Tourists was released one...

  • Bruised Brotherhood

    If there is a no-man's land between The New Gay and The Old Gay, I am sitting in it. To be clear, these are not...

  • Inauguration Calendar of Events

    Friday, January 16 Celebrate Change Prepare for Tomorrow -- A cocktail reception in honor of the president and vice president, and a fundraiser in support...

  • Inauguration Celebration

    A coalition of GLBT-advocacy organizations, including the nation's largest, the Human Rights Campaign, have announced plans to celebrate Inauguration Day 2009 with a party, ''Out...

  • Bathhouse Blues

    If you were to record an album at a gay sex club, what kind of music would it be? Dance music seems obvious -- it's...

  • Friends and Front Pages

    As the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association brings its national convention back to D.C., my travel plans have me elsewhere. That's unfortunate, as I...

  • New Classic

    ''I feel like there's a lot of ways in which being a composer now is almost more weird than being gay,'' says Nico...

  • Goddamned Great

    ''He's got the world on his back and watch him take it -- on all fours,'' Jay Brannan sings on his song ''On All Fours.''...

  • Spirited Connection

    Jason Warner and deMarco DeCiccio know they've sown some confusion out there. ''I think where people get confused is, are we gay? Yes. Are we...