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  • Speaker and Performers

    Speakers & Performers Saturday, April 28 P Street Park 23rd & P Streets NW Noon to 5 p.m. As of press time, in alphabetical order....

  • Events

    Youth Pride Alliance Allies Reception Honoring: Darlene Nipper, Cheryl Specter, and City at Peace Friday, April 20 7 to 9:30 p.m. Toutorsky Mansion 1720 16th...

  • Youth Pride Sponsors

    Platinum Human Rights Campaign SMYAL Gold Brother Help Thyself The Center Cherry Fund Whitman-Walker Clinic Silver Black Pride GLSEN -- Northern Virginia Chapter Gay Life...

  • Youth Pride Leadership

    Sara Mindel Youth Pride Day Director Allison Bayley Volunteer Coordinator Brian McNamee Games Coordinator, Scholarship Coordinator David Koegel Technical Director Michael Banks Treasurer Nikisha Carpenter...

  • Letter from the Director

    As we celebrate this year's theme, Unique in Identities, United in Pride, we are taking note of how much courage it takes to come out...

  • Who We Are

    Who We Are Youth Pride Alliance, now in its 11th year, was founded in 1996 by Christopher Dyer. Our primary function is the annual production...

  • A Family Affair

    ''Men have seeds, and women have eggs... and if two women fall in love and want to have a baby together, they need a seed.''...

  • Buying Time

    It's been two months since Preston Randolph Logan pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, but it will be at least one more week before he receives...

  • Correction

    In the April 12 issue of Metro Weekly, District II Board of Education candidate Sekou Biddle was reported to have secured the Gertrude Stein Democratic...

  • Geek Love

    First of all, it's okay if your first reaction to hearing about a show that parodies Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals is, ''How will I know...

  • More Is Less

    If you stayed awake in 10th-grade history, then correctly answering, ''What was the fate of Sir Thomas More?'' is a no-brainer: He crossed the King,...

  • Chronic Heidi

    Well, the pressure is on. With Arena Stage reviving The Heidi Chronicles, the seminal and much lauded play of cultural icon Wendy Wasserstein, ''in loving...

  • Sissy Fuss

    A freak and a sissy. Not to mention an orphan and, most challenging, a Southerner. Such was the childhood of Kevin Sessums, best known for...

  • Combating Hate Crimes

    On March 14, 2007, a 25-year-old gay man named Ryan Keith Skipper was murdered in Polk County, Fla. He was stabbed 20 times in what...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: You've shifted pointless boulders uphill long enough, Sisyphus. With that immense obstacle out of your line of vision, you may be surprised to...