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	<title>Trans Awakening: Earline Budd&#39;s journey has been difficult and dangerous &#45;&#45; and led her to bring compassion to her activism</title>
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Feature Story: On Wednesdays&#44; Earline Budd is behind bars&#46; It&#39;s usually from 9 a&#46;m&#46; to 4 p&#46;m&#46; when the 51&#45;year&#45;old spends her time at the D&#46;C&#46; Department of Corrections&#46; She&#39;s there by choice&#44; serving not time but her clients &#45;&#45;talking to gay and transgender inmates about their plans upon being released&#46; It&#39;s a discharge&#45;planning volunteer effort Budd started more than six years ago and it&#39;s become one of her many duties as a treatment and healing specialist for Transgender Health Empowerment &#40;THE&#41;&#44; an organization that she helped found in 1996&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Unforgettable Sarah Marshall: The Hardest&#45;Working Woman in D&#46;C&#46; Theater is Working Harder Than Ever</title>
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Feature Story: There&#39;s a funny thing about Sarah Marshall&#46; &#40;That is&#44; something besides the fact that&#44; thanks to a certain movie&#44; a Google search of her name produces an inordinate number of entries that include the phrase &#39;&#39;full frontal&#46;&#39;&#39;&#41; If you were to sit down with the local actor &#38;ndash&#59; maybe in the slick glass&#45;walled classroom of Woolly Mammoth&#39;s smart downtown theater just hours before she takes the stage &#38;ndash&#59; you&#39;ll meet an individual even more engaging than any of the characters you&#39;ve seen her play&#46; Sarah Marshall &#40;Photo by Todd Franson&#41; This is no small statement considering Marshall&#39;s D&#46;C&#46; stage credits span nearly 30 years and include roles in plays as diverse as Martha&#44; Josie &#38; the Chinese Elvis&#44; Twelfth Night&#44; How I Learned to Drive and a Helen Hayes Award&#45;winning turn in Christopher Durang&#39;s Baby with the Bathwater&#46; In Woolly Mammoth&#39;s current production of Charles L&#46; Mee&#39;s Full Circle Marshall takes on three roles&#44; at least two of which &#40;okay&#44; maybe all three&#41; are men&#46; She&#39;s been nominated for 17 Helen Hayes Awards&#44; two for her 2009 performances in Woolly&#39;s Boom and Maria&#47;Stuart&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Wrapped Up: Hank Stuever goes deep in the heart of Texas to find the spirit of Christmas</title>
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Feature Story: The beast is almost here&#46; Do you hear the tintinnabulation of its bells around the corner&#63; See the glinting gold and silver of a million mall store baubles dangling from its evergreen limbs&#63; Smell the scent of eggnog and casseroles and decorative spray snow that triggers fond memories of family celebrations that never actually happened&#63; Yes&#44; Christmas is coming&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>A Royal Outing: A family that dresses up together is silly&#44; happy and queer together</title>
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Feature Story: Halloween has always been a holiday particularly well celebrated by two groups of people &#45;&#45; the queer community and kids&#46; In the past few years&#44; I have enjoyed the best of both worlds&#46; Ever since I was a kid in Queens&#44; N&#46;Y&#46;&#44; dressing up in homemade costumes and using a pillowcase as a candy bag&#44; Halloween has been one of my favorite holidays&#46; Sometimes we would dress up twice and double&#45;dip by roaming a different part of the neighborhood&#46; We would do our best to dodge the &#39;&#39;bad kids&#39;&#39; armed with shaving cream and eggs and we always had a good time&#46; As an adult&#44; Halloween became for me&#44; as it has for so many of us&#44; my &#39;&#39;Queer Christmas&#46;&#39;&#39; My first dance&#44; with the girl who was soon became my first kiss and then my first girlfriend&#44; was at a college Halloween party&#46; I was a ninja&#44; she the Wicked Witch from The Wizard of Oz&#46; The song&#63; Dead or Alive&#44; &#39;&#39;You Spin Me Round &#40;Like a Record&#41;&#46;&#39;&#39; Surrounded by a bunch of hetero college students it all seemed a bit surreal&#44; but it was my first public &#39;&#39;coming out&#46;&#39;&#39; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Touting Terror: A campfire song is nice&#44; but a ghost story is better</title>
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Feature Story: Fear bonds people together&#46; So do joy&#44; lust and a number of other extreme emotions&#46; It&#39;s just that fear rarely receives its due&#46; Rather&#44; communal fear is almost always viewed as a negative community builder&#46; Homophobia is a good example&#46; My father&#44; however&#44; must have known fear&#39;s upside&#44; if only instinctively&#44; as his application could&#39;ve used some fine&#45;tuning&#46; For a good scare&#44; he would have my older brother and sister and me play a mandatory game of his own concocting&#58; &#34;lights&#45;out&#46;&#34; All the lights in the house would be turned out&#46; He would hide&#46; We were ordered to find him&#46; Upon finding him&#44; he would jump up screaming&#44; scaring the bejeezus out of us&#46; Well&#44; mostly out of me&#44; as I was about 5&#44; while the siblings were in high school&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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