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All posts by Will O'Bryan

  • Will Bell

    Will Bell There is a chance that Will Bell may be having a mild quarter-life crisis. ''I have my education to fall back on, I've...

  • Challenging Principals

    Minors may not be allowed to vote, but that certainly doesn't allow them to live outside politics. According to a Dec. 9 press release issued...

  • Where Do We Fit?

    With the November elections five weeks past, people are finally turning away from electoral discussions. Who could blame the voters on the losing side if...

  • National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, D.C. Chapter

    MISSION: Founded in 1991, NLGJA is an organization of journalists, online media professionals and students that works from within the journalism industry to foster fair...

  • Making the Syphi-list

    Recently released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracking sexually transmitted diseases in 2003 does not offer much good news for...

  • Art History

    Peter Stebbins remembers meeting David Jamieson when the two entered the University of Vermont as freshman in 1983. ''I came home to find a gathering...

  • Next Exit 4 Years: Mapping a New Direction

    Los Angeles and New York may be the country's cultural poles, but Washington sets the tone. The web of executive decisions, bureaucratic regulations, Supreme Court...

  • Pink People Feeling Blue

    It's fair to say that America is polarized. The 2004 election helped quantify the division, with 51 percent on the right, 48 percent on the...

  • Gay-N-C

    With the city's heavily Democratic majority among registered voters, presidential races may not be much of a contest in the District of Columbia. Nonpartisan advisory...

  • Expo Absent

    Since the spring of 2001, gay Washingtonians have been greeted by more than cherry blossoms. That's when the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Expo comes...

  • Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA)

    Members of the Gay and Lesbian Activist Alliance ORGANIZATIONAL MISSION: Founded in 1971, GLAA is a local, all-volunteer, non-partisan, non-profit political organization of approximately 150...

  • Community Kitchen

    Food & Friends started from scratch in 1988, when the Rev. Carla Gorrell decided that she wanted to help nourish Washingtonians suffering from AIDS-related illnesses....

  • Chef's Best

    Graham Beard Graham Beard, Volunteer Graham Beard holds the distinction of being Food & Friends' first volunteer, having responded to a classified ad in 1988....

  • Lambda Divers

    Members of Lambda Divers ORGANIZATIONAL MISSION: Founded in 1989, Lambda Divers is a nonprofit social organization dedicated to promoting scuba diving among the members of...

  • Local Leverage

    By so many measures, the 2004 presidential race is unprecedented. The George W. Bush vs. John Kerry slugfest is breaking records with money spent and...