All posts by Will O'Bryan
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Auntie Hero
At first glance, the upcoming OutWrite ''Pioneers'' event at The Center, the area's LGBT community center, is already substantial, celebrating re-releases of two powerful books:...
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NYAC's Last Days
Monday's announcement from the National Youth Advocacy Coalition may not have been a complete surprise to board and staff, but much of the community has...
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Arlington Addition
Furthering Arlington's identity as arguably Virginia's most progressive county, this Sunday will see the meeting of its first youth PFLAG meeting, hosted by the Unitarian...
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Telling Secrets
LGBT locals – particularly those in the leather and HIV communities – likely know Justin Terry-Smith. He served as Mr. Maryland Leather 2010. He's been...
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D.C. Goes for Orange
While the results are not yet official, it appears that D.C. voters returned Vincent Orange (D) to the City Council in Tuesday's special election to...
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Name Changer
Over the course of its nearly four decades, the Whitman-Walker Clinic – born as the Gay Men's VD Clinic – has been a constant component...
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Chamber's Stars
The George Washington University Business Plan Competition, which awards $50,000 annually to students, faculty or alumni, named its 2011 winners last week – and the...
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Million Dollar Man
Lifetime Television used to be the gay man's go-to station. Today -- perhaps even more so than Logo -- that distinction would seem to go...
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Spring Seediness
In Russian, the root for both ''red'' and ''beautiful'' is ''kras.'' Some say this aspect of the language evolved out of Russia's notoriously harsh winters,...
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Four Diligent Decades
It may not have been a courtroom, but one sunny afternoon in October 2009, a generic D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics hearing room was...
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Briggs Initiative
If Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Area seems like a mouthful, don't fret. The folks affiliated with...
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Warm Welcome
Thank you, Ms. Perkins. You don't know me, but you sort of made my day. What you do know is that my husband and I...
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Driven to Complaint
Alejandro Moreno hadn't planned to do much on Sunday afternoon but enjoy the city's springtime weather with his friend and roommate, Elva Lovoz. That led...
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LCR Backs Mara
D.C.'s LGBT Republicans, as represented by the local chapter of Log Cabin Republicans, may not enjoy quite as much influence as their Democratic counterparts, the...
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Face Time
Congress – and particularly the legislative body's myriad ancillary offices – could be considered Andrew Noyes's stomping ground. For years, he covered the intersection of...
