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  • American U. Honors

    The GLBTA Resource Center at American University is currently accepting applications for the Richard L. Schlegel National Legion of Honor Award in two categories: Emerging...

  • Phoenix Rising

    Tell someone you will be visiting Phoenix and the likely response will be ''which part?'' Phoenix has grown rapidly in the last decade to become...

  • Cobalt Correction!

    Hearsay drinks too much. This is common knowledge. Hearsay likes its scotch and vodka and bourbon and beer and red wine — all mixed together....

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: What's the right thing to do when the old structures stop holding up and there's no strategy devised to replace them? What's the...

  • Balancing Act

    The playwright Edward Albee is quoted as saying that those audience members able to detect the love story in his play Who's Afraid of Virginia...

  • Choosing Oscar

    It's Oscar time -- let the judging begin! The clothes, the hair, the jewelry... and if there's any time left you might get around to...

  • State of the Union

    Two kinds of union were celebrated Feb. 12. First, Americans honored the 200th birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, who preserved the union and ended slavery....

  • BLAGOSAH Blooms

    Danielle Cooper still recalls how she felt when she received an acceptance letter to D.C.'s Howard University, among the nation's most renowned historically black colleges...

  • Credit and Caution for Clinic

    It's simple, says Councilmember David Catania (I-At large): As long as the board of directors at Whitman-Walker Clinic cooperates with the District's Committee on Health,...

  • Calling All Cheerleaders

    Washington is fighting three cities -- Boston, Cleveland and Miami -- in its bid to host the 2014 Gay Games, the world's largest GLBT sports...

  • The Re-Re Hat Tour

    Hearsay has learned that a few weeks ago — the weekend after the Inauguration, to be exact — a mysterious man got creative with a...

  • Attention Shoppers!

    Sometimes a movie is like an ice-cream cone. It's all sweet and sugary goodness, but there's nothing packed into the cone so it cracks and...

  • XXX

    Many words come to mind when attempting to understand the rise of porn as a near-mainstream commodity in the gay world: Ingenuity. Technology. Business Savvy....

  • Local Hot Shots

    August Lacore was walking down Hollywood Boulevard when a porn producer ''discovered'' him. At 18, the Suitland, Md., native was soon in his first foursome...

  • Selling Porn

    It's all just a click away on the Internet, but local stores selling adult videos say they're not too worried. After all, the visuals might...