All posts by Will O'Bryan
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40-Year Phase
When it comes to pivotal years in LGBT history, 1969 -- year of the late June riots at the Stonewall Inn gay bar in New...
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Shticks and Stones
There's the old Woody Allen joke about how being bisexual can double your chances of getting a date. It's not terribly funny, but it gets...
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Friends at Different Phases
Washington's a diverse place. That doesn't mean, however, the city always blends well. A family may pick a single church and remain loyal to it...
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Amazing Journey
Peruse A. Cornelius Baker's résumé, and you might get more than you bargained for. Sure, you knew he worked for the George H.W. Bush administration...
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Questions and Carats
They may be a girl's best friend. They may even be forever. But as Jon Mervis advises, they aren't absolutely necessary. Just one of the...
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Push for Parity
The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus last week made a fresh push for immigration equality in a letter to five national leaders. In the Feb. 2...
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Never-Ending Need
At 40, sharing a birthday with the Stonewall riots, I've lived through plenty of changes for LGBT Americans. After about 10 or so, I even...
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More Snow, More Need
While an emergency call for volunteers Tuesday meant that none of the 1,400 ill clients served by Food and Friends went hungry despite the poor...
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Round-Three Rejection
If the maxim about insanity being defined as repeating the same course of action yet expecting different results has any bearing in truth, the crowd...
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Help, with a Hitch
Keith Short would pass Central Union Mission at 14th and R Streets NW regularly. It was in the same neighborhood where he was tenuously living...
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Shabbaton in the Capital
If the term is new to you, think of the Hebrew shabbaton as roughly a sabbatical or a retreat. It can mean different things to...
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Picture Yourself
You may recall the following scene from Sex and the City when it was still just a TV show. Samantha wants to capture her good...
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Family Feud
Full Equality Now DC (FENDC), a group evolved from the local host committee of October's National Equality March, are turning their activist aim at The...
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Ally Beats Enemy
It's been a year – just a year, mind you – that Barack Obama has served as 44th president of the U.S. He's the first...
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Dollars & Sense
Mark Guenther knows exactly what he would like to convey to strangers: ''First off, I'm a nice guy.'' Considering his disarming smile and ready handshake,...
