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All posts tagged "pat hawkins"

  • Opinion: Wearin’ ‘O the Rainbow

    Pat Hawkins shares her thoughts on that it means to be LGBTQ and Irish

  • First LGBT contingent to march in D.C. St. Patrick’s Day Parade

    When Dr. Pat Hawkins was growing up in Grosse Pointe, Mich. as a child, her parents always used to take her to see Detroit’s St....

  • Medical Marijuana Makeover

    Pat Hawkins is trying to remake the image of medical marijuana as the District prepares to make it a reality. Hawkins, a clinical social worker,...

  • Mayor Vincent Gray reflects on the International AIDS Conference

    In 2008, during the XVII International AIDS Conference, held in Mexico City, one speaker helped set the tone. Ron MacInnis, a D.C. local, who was...

  • World AIDS Day 2011

    It is Dec. 1. It is time, again, to mark World AIDS Day. As with winter, soon to follow, one might say that AIDS is...

  • AIDS Walk's Top 25

    Whitman-Walker Health, organizer of AIDS Walk Washington, on Tuesday announced not only the recipients of the event's three major honors, but a list of 25...

  • Cover Quartet

    Dr. Pat Hawkins remembers her first Pride celebration in D.C. – from a distance. It was the mid-1970s and she was working with youth, keeping...

  • Budd's Cancer Battle

    The doctors didn't lie to Earline Budd. The Oct. 25 surgery at Inova Fairfax Hospital to treat the colon cancer Budd was diagnosed with in...

  • Going Gray

    There's no question that the Vince Gray for Mayor campaign has been picking up steam. From straw polls to multiple unions to – most importantly...

  • GLBT Budget Burden

    The good news came in June. The bad news followed in July. Mayor Adrian Fenty (D) needs to find ways to close a projected budget...

  • Clinic Counters

    First -- depending on how one measure's a local tempest -- came the layoffs in December, including the dismissal of two GLBT community pioneers, Barbara...

  • Good-Bye Girls

    Barbara Chinn (Photo by Patsy Lynch) Despite the anticipation of the Jan. 20 change in presidential administrations, generally much welcomed by the GLBT community, there...

  • Cut Without Cash

    On Dec. 16, Whitman-Walker Clinic, founded in 1973 as a gay men's STD clinic and today serving a diverse population of clients while maintaining GLBT...