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  • Financial Ally to Evil

    Televangelist Pat Robertson's claim that the Haitian earthquake was divine retribution for a two-century-old pact with the devil, even as he purported to raise relief...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: We are shaped by interior landscapes as well as heredity and environment. In that subtle theater where we are most ourselves or more...

  • Devil May Care

    Like a cozy vintage clothing store manned by educated young thinkers, The American Century Theater offers a second chance for those less-often noticed American plays...

  • Solo Acts

    ''You are teaching me a history I never knew I had.'' These are the words of the character Doug Wright as written by the playwright...

  • Following the Facts

    SAN FRANCISCO -- Testimony in the Proposition 8 trial Tuesday began with emotional testimony by San Diego's Republican Mayor Jerry Sanders and ended with a...

  • It’s almost Prom Season….

    Hearsay got this in its email just a few moments ago and thought this was important enough to share with those of you who are...

  • Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor go gay, gay, gay! Yay!

    The popular everything-gay gossip blog Queerty quite ecstatically notes that the latest preview for the new Jim Carrey/Ewan McGregor film, I Love You Phillip Morris...

  • In Harm's Way

    SAN FRANCISCO – It's not often one hears these words in a federal courtroom: ''Dyke. You fucking dyke. You're going to die and go to...

  • Massachusetts Robocalls

    The National Organization for Marriage appears to be making automated telephone calls today in support of U.S. Senate candidate and Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown (R)...

  • Money Changes Everything?

    SAN FRANCISCO – The discussion at the Proposition 8 trial Thursday swung from the economics to mental health. In between, it covered everything from how...

  • Judge Sides with City

    D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith Macaluso ruled this afternoon, Jan. 14, that the initiative sought by Bishop Harry Jackson on behalf of the Stand4Marriage D.C....

  • Go Mama! Goes

    Noi Chudnoff was the heart of the Go Mama Go! gift shop, and a seemingly inexhaustible ally of the LGBT community. After her death in...

  • On Being First

    ''Being the first sucks,'' Amanda Simpson, one of the first openly trans appointments to a federal government position, told ABC News. ''I'd rather not be...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: Is the burden crushing? The workload staggering? The structure straining? You're overwhelmed by responsibilities you willingly assumed. You're determined to change the world...

  • A Different World

    A funny, provocative and emotionally compelling study of a family rock and what lies under it, Lydia R. Diamond's Stick Fly is engaging and entertaining...