Arts + Entertainment
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Toasting the Travelers
Every year National Geographic Traveler magazine receives, according to the magazine's George Stone, ''lots of cool letters from passionate individuals telling us about their travels...
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Unexpected Moves
''I started taking dance because I used to imitate Michael Jackson,'' says Robert Battle, who recalls playing piano and singing as a child growing up...
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West Winging It
Given my nation of birth, Britain, it could be expected that my personal politics would be heavily influenced by the ethical socialism that proved popular...
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Supportive Synagogue
A year ago Gil Steinlauf, leader of the oldest and largest Conservative synagogue in Washington, took a stand for gay rights. Writing in the Jewish...
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Disney Channel makes history with first gay couple
The Disney Channel made history Sunday night in an episode of family sitcom Good Luck Charlie. The sub-plot of the episode revolved around daughter Charlie’s...
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Classic album revisited: The Fixx “Phantoms”
The Fixx has always been a bit outside the lines. They never fit neatly into any particular genre, falling somewhere between new wave, post-punk and...
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Reading Sean Strub
''Twenty years ago, when a young gay man was diagnosed,'' says longtime AIDS activist and writer Sean Strub, ''there was this loving, supportive AIDS and...
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Rousseve's Reality
As a child growing up in Houston, David Rousseve had dreams of being a Broadway triple-threat performer -- singer, dancer and actor. Surprisingly, that was...
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Star of “The Bachelor” calls gay people more perverted, doesn’t want them on TV
Juan Pablo Galavis, star of reality dating show The Bachelor, has derided the possibilty of a gay or bisexual bachelor appearing on the show in an...
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Marvin's Room
''It was very heartbreaking for our whole company.'' Marissa McGowan is recalling the 2012 death of storied American composer Marvin Hamlisch. ''He meant so much...
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Leather's Superheroes
''When you get all these men together, and they stand in these power stances,'' Anthony Dortch Jr. says, ''all I think of is, 'Wow, this...
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French Toast
On the surface you might not expect a collaboration between the InSeries's Carla Hubner -- originally from Chile -- and the Washington Ballet's Septime Webre...
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Sounds of Silence
He's not gay, but members of the LGBT community will identify straightaway with the character Billy in Studio Theatre's arresting production of Nina Raine's Tribes....
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Hell Bent for Leather: a musical primer for Mid Atlantic Leather
Later this week leather afficianados from all over the world will descend upon Washington, DC for the annual Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend. Old friendships will be...
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Movie Review – August: Osage County
I didn’t have an opportunity to see Tracy Letts’ three-hour epic August: Osage County on the stage, but from everything I’ve heard, I’ve little doubt...
