All posts by Doug Rule
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Clinic Preps Fall Function
Next Friday, Nov. 12, the Whitman-Walker Clinic will give Dr. Shannon Hader its first-ever Community Service Award ''in recognition of the tremendous work she's done...
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Homecoming Tribute
As early as 1955, Anna Sokolow refused to alter her choreography with a gay sequence for a concert. ''She was a Jewish, straight white woman....
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Surreal Life
Scott G. Brooks was so inspired by people's frustration with President Obama and the Democrats, he put Glenn Beck in a painting. Actually, Beck wasn't...
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Drumming Decades
''My passion for the group grows every time I'm with them,'' says Joe Bello of D.C.'s Different Drummers. Bello is not the only one. This...
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Golden Silence
Mummenschanz is now in its 38th year. ''It sounds so important when we number the years,'' says the European performance art company's Floriana Frassetto, ''but...
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Halloween Happenings
In the gay community, Halloween is like Christmas: A chance to get presents and prizes, if you dress up for the occasion. Gay bars and...
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Improv Insanity
''He's sort of that guy who everybody knows is gay, but nobody talks about it,'' says Mark Chalfant. Chalfant plays Skip ''Skippy'' Skipperton in Washington...
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Modern Love
Did you know William Shakespeare's Mercutio might be gay? ''Perhaps Mercutio is bisexual, who knows? He's a sexual provocateur, let's put it that way,'' says...
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Honky Cat
''I know you could be just like you should,'' Elton John sings at the top of his new set The Union. ''If it wasn't for...
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Sweet Harmony
''Throughout the '70s,'' says Carol Maillard, ''there were a lot of pop and R&B singers putting out songs that had something to do with people's...
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Frock On
''It was getting a little tedious, frankly,'' says Bette Bourne. ''All these men kind of waving their dicks around, telling us what they'd read and...
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Velvet Goldmine
Manny Lehman. Aubrey. Reg. Cryogenic freeze. ''There are a lot of things that people think of when they think of Nation, but nobody thinks of...
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Unorthodox Material
Miryam Kabakov's new anthology features first-person narratives from queer Orthodox Jewish women In his writings, the influential 12th century Jewish philosopher Maimonides speaks of a...
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Furry Friends
More than 16 years ago, Doug Langway stood across the street from a New York bear bar wondering if he had the guts to go...
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Gay Altar
''He's described in the script as having a deep and abiding love for Cher and all things show tunes.'' Patrick M. Doneghy is talking about...
