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  • Maryland Money Woes

    Equality Maryland could shut down operations at the end of June if it does not collect $20,000 to $25,000 in donations to cover operating expenses,...

  • Coverboy: Jamel

    Jamel came to Washington from Winston-Salem, N.C., to pursue a law degree at Howard University. Instead, the 24-year-old switched gears and decided to spend a...

  • Monday Move

    This year, organizers of DC Black Pride are trying something different. Instead of closing out the annual Memorial Day Weekend celebration with a large Sunday...

  • Party for Pride and Heritage

    Organizers of Pride and Heritage, an annual celebration of the LGBT Asian-American and Pacific Islander community, are switching gears this year, hosting a sort of...

  • Center Addition

    The Center, the area's LGBT community center, hired its second full-time staffer this week. Justin Johns, 28, has been brought onboard as The Center's Tobacco...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: You've been spinning your wheels, revisiting old issues – and sometimes the whole subscription. You've been looking over your shoulder as you attempt...

  • High Art vs. Hard Cash

    Let's call it... The One With the Ross-like Nebbish Who Didn't Actually Marry the Lesbian Who Left Him for Another Woman. Oh sure, The Moscows...

  • Symbiotic Space

    Chamber Connections The best usually comes around with the worst. In business, when these opposites combine, prospects for good business deals arise. Such is the...

  • White House Objects to DADT Amendment

    The White House is expressing ''serious objections'' this evening to an amendment approved by the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) on May 11 that would...

  • Pride's Destiny

    ''When love takes over, you know you can't deny,'' sings Kelly Rowland on the infamous love anthem by DJ David Guetta. Rowland herself will take...

  • Coverboy: Tyler

    When people find out Tyler has an identical twin brother, they usually ask him the same question. ''No, he's not gay,'' Tyler says. The 27-year-old...

  • Day of the Devil

    In the Star Trek episode ''Day of the Dove,'' humans and Klingons are stranded together on the Enterprise by a non-corporeal life form that feeds...

  • An Anniversary of Equality

    Thirty years ago, a group of LGBT individuals formed what is now known as the Arlington Gay & Lesbian Alliance (AGLA). At first, most AGLA...

  • For Frank

    When The Academy of Washington announced that they were presenting Frank Kameny with a check for $3,500, during the Academy's 50th anniversary celebration on Saturday,...

  • Shine On

    May 14 is ''SHINE Night'' a nationally recognized annual reminder of the millions of youth facing homelessness. The Sasha Bruce House, at 1022 Maryland Ave....