All posts by Will O'Bryan
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Out In Congress
There have been gay members of Congress before and there are those who serve now. There has already been an openly gay candidate elected to...
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15 Years of a Free Rein
It would be a long life for a dog, long enough for a person to reach adolescence, or less than a blink of cosmic time....
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The Homophobic Lifestyle
With the recent protests against marriage quality -- replete with a grandstanding politician, muddy logic, and faith in God being on one's side -- there's...
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Gay and Gone
It would be hard to argue that Clark Ray, the highest-ranking openly gay member of Mayor Adrian Fenty's administration and its only department head, was...
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Storefront Stand
If Brad Allison was a bully, he'd be one to hide from. At an inch shy of 6 feet, weighing in at 240 pounds, and...
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Countering Marriage Equality
A newly formed coalition uniting Hope Christian Church and the High Impact Leadership Coalition (HILC), based in Beltsville and College Park, respectively; the national, D.C.-group,...
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The Living Dread
Zombies are enjoying a pop-culture heyday. You can keep Twilight and Rise of the Lycans. The buzz is all about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,...
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Marriage Movement
The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, a GLBT political club and one of the District's most influential, succeeded in finding some common ground in the push...
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Body Language
If you talk about contemporary dance in Washington, dancer and choreographer Helanius Wilkins is bound to enter the conversation. Since 2001, his EDGEWORKS Dance Theater...
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Linh Hoang
There is very little to Linh Hoang that is not on the move. Emigrating from Vietnam at age 10, that flight across the Pacific to...
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José Ramirez
Growing up as a teenager in Durham, N.C., was not easy for José Ramirez. He remembers the embarrassment of the school bus arriving some mornings,...
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Local and Luscious
There is a story D.C.-native Patrick O'Connell, the openly gay proprietor and chef -- one of the world's very best -- of the Inn at...
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Wilson's Return
It was just about this time last year that members of DC Black Pride (DCBP) got the news that Daryl Wilson would be running a...
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Squaring Off
When square-dance devotees talk about this all-American (well, sort of) art form, they're bound to get to the patterns eventually. And why not? From above,...
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Big Business
Outside, the Tidal Basin was bursting with cherry blossoms adjacent the Mandarin Oriental hotel. Inside, there was also a season of change as the Capital...
