All posts by Will O'Bryan
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Straights to Hell
The Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend has come and gone, and hats off to the Centaur MC organizers for once again doing their part to actually express...
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Welcome to Washington
Through all the barriers to immigration, all the legal wrangling that comes with manmade international borders, one institution has seemed superior: marriage. Even at the...
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Task Masters
Outside, it's a cold and sunny January afternoon. Inside the sixth-floor offices of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the entryway is piled high...
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Make Me a Match
Find something cute to wear. Pick a place to go. Make sure your teeth are clean and you smell wonderful. Get a haircut. When you...
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Orgy Attack
President Barack Obama wasn't the only one celebrating a victory in D.C. last weekend. The Illinois-based Americans for the Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) was touting...
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Executive Engagement
First came the call inviting the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington to participate in ''We Are One,'' the opening ceremony of President Obama's days-long Inauguration...
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D.C.'s Countdown to Destiny
There have been other Inauguration Days in U.S. history and many are yet to come. But on Jan. 20, 2009, America will break a long...
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The Pastor's Peers
If Election Day 2008 was the wedding between the GLBT community and President-elect Barack Obama, his subsequent choice of the Rev. Rick Warren to deliver...
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Quarter-Century Contest
Most reunions are bittersweet affairs, occasions to strengthen and celebrate bonds, and to reminisce and remember those absent. Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend, running Jan. 16 to...
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Prouder than Bombs
Here it is, some 60 years since the Israeli Declaration of Independence, and the bombs are still falling. Hamas is firing rockets into Israel and...
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Good-Bye Girls
Barbara Chinn (Photo by Patsy Lynch) Despite the anticipation of the Jan. 20 change in presidential administrations, generally much welcomed by the GLBT community, there...
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Mayor Sets Meeting
The recently re-formed Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV) is ending a seemingly violent 2008 with a commitment from Mayor Adrian Fenty to meet with...
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Vanquishing Vulnerabilities
A birthday is a good time to stop and take stock of one's situation. How's the body- The career- The relationships- And so on. Thinking...
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Time and a Bottle
What's that saying about playing the champagne flute and swallowing the bubbles- Regardless, with New Year's Eve upon us, it's time for some bubbly. Whether...
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Cut Without Cash
On Dec. 16, Whitman-Walker Clinic, founded in 1973 as a gay men's STD clinic and today serving a diverse population of clients while maintaining GLBT...
