All posts by Doug Rule
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Keeping the Faith
Twenty-four years ago, George Michael launched Faith with an organ playing the melody from ''Freedom,'' a hit he had with Wham! a couple years prior....
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Solid Goldman
Julie Goldman got turned on to standup comedy by one of her teachers at temple. ''Oh my god,'' she recalls thinking, ''I can write my...
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Cake Off
Ever see a cake with a watersports theme, euphemistically speaking? If you've ever been to Scarlet's Bake Sale, the annual cake auction fundraiser at the...
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Herndon Hideaway
Last summer, So Addictive Lounge started a gay night on Wednesdays. By November, Thursdays and Fridays had gone gay too. ''We were thinking about adding...
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Temperature Rising
Eddie Elias knows a thing or two about heating up and cooling down a room. He toiled for 12 years as a heating and air-conditioning...
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Magic Carpet Ride
Aladdin doesn't appear in Mary Zimmerman's The Arabian Nights. Neither does Sinbad the Sailor. Both fairy tales weren't originally part of the stories of Scheherazade,...
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Military Serenade
Mike Almy only came out to his parents after he became a leading activist pushing repeal of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. ''I...
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Winds Power
''We're a family,'' says Laura Harris, president of D.C.'s Different Drummers. ''We try to take care of each other, we look out for each other.......
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Swinging Standards
''It's all right for younger people to like older music,'' says pianist John Eaton, an expert of the Great American Songbook and jazz music from...
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Lesbian Laughs
In the early '90s, Suzanne Westenhoefer made the rounds of that era's spate of daytime talk shows -- hosted by the likes of Sally Jesse...
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Baked Alaska
Is Sarah Palin the Antichrist? “That’s to be interpreted by the ,” says Gross National Product’s John Simmons, referring to his theater company’s latest comedy...
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Pittsburgh Proud
Some might say that 2011 was the year Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather took the easy way out. Doug Pamplin, competing at the Mr. MAL contest as...
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Swanky Sunday
Remember Lizard Lounge? Mark Lee's popular Sunday night party permanently closed over two years ago, but a new decade brings what could be a long-awaited...
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Bully for That
''It just broke my heart, and I felt a little helpless,'' says Eboné Bell of last fall's spate of news stories surrounding gay teen suicides....
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Leather Laureates
Dan Noël competed for Mr. MAL in 1989 as a 28-year-old, active-duty Army police officer. He even used his real name at a time when gays...
