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  • UltimateOut – Gay, Lesbian and Gay-friendly Ultimate Frisbee Coed Team

    By on September 7, 2005

    Members of Ultimateout ORGANIZATIONAL MISSION: UltimateOut strives to build a sense of community for athletic gays, lesbians and gay-friendly people to play a fun, energetic...

  • Community Building

    By on August 24, 2005

    Much of metropolitan Washington's community is from elsewhere. Michael Sessa, raised in a thoroughly Italian-American neighborhood in Boston's Revere suburb is no exception. Traces of...

  • Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) National Capital Area

    By on August 24, 2005

    Members of GLSEN at a recent happy hour event ORGANIZATIONAL MISSION: GLSEN strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and...

  • Gathering Steam

    By on August 24, 2005

    The local, monthly community meetings to discuss GLBT participation in the Millions More Movement (MMM) are quickly gaining steam. The seventh monthly meeting, initiated in...

  • Five Alive

    By on August 17, 2005

    Under the noonday sun Monday, a group of local religious leaders offered another ray of light. Downtown, on the steps of the Metropolitan African Methodist...

  • Mama's Mission

    By on August 10, 2005

    Noi Chudnoff inside Go Mama Go! If you drive by too quickly, the sign above the door might look more like ''Go Mango!'' warns Noi...

  • Birch Society

    By on August 10, 2005

    Move over Univision, BET, and Lifetime Television for Women -- we have arrived. While American entertainment has long had gay flavor, the dawn of here!...

  • Active Duty

    By on August 3, 2005

    If gay men love a man in uniform, Rich Merritt could be their poster boy. In 1998, he was the closeted Marine on the cover...

  • Method Man

    By on August 3, 2005

    The stretch of 17th Street -- roughly between P and R streets NW -- is one of the district's foremost gay villages. It hosts the...

  • The Heat Is On

    By on July 27, 2005

    As the saying goes, if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. But when...

  • Family Affair

    By on July 20, 2005

    The big picture is a family portrait. It's a picture of the African-American community coming together to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Million Man...

  • Gen-X D.C. Bears

    By on July 20, 2005

    Members of Gen-X D.C. Bears MISSION: An independent social group founded in 1999, Gen-X D.C. Bears is the original and only ''Generation X'' bear group...

  • A Phoenix from the Flames

    By on July 13, 2005

    This time last year, LLEGÓ was suffering ill health. That this organization -- the sole national organization representing the LGBT Latino/a community exclusively -- would...

  • Human Rights Revisited

    By on July 13, 2005

    To bolster the nearly 30-year-old D.C. Human Rights Act's protections for transgender people in the district, council members Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) and Vincent Orange...

  • Partners Metro D.C.

    By on July 13, 2005

    Members of Partners Metro D.C. MISSION: Founded in 1996, Partners Metro D.C. supports committed gay and lesbian couples and fosters acceptance and understanding of these...