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  • DC Strokes Rowing Club

    By on June 4, 2008

    Maybe you've seen them gracing the slick black-and-white pages of their sexy calendar. Perhaps you've spied these athletic men and women slicing through the waters...

  • Melange Lavonne offers positive, gay-affirming messages in hip hop

    By on June 4, 2008

    Time is of the essence to Melange Lavonne. ''I'm a cancer survivor. I realize life is short,'' says the lesbian rapper from Southern California. ''I'm...

  • Unitarian Universalists

    By on June 4, 2008

    Why is Unitarian Universalism so appealing to gays? Margaret Albamonte, chair of Capital Area Interweave, a group with about 60 members representing 17 D.C.-area Unitarian...

  • Whitman-Walker Clinic

    By on June 4, 2008

    Whitman-Walker Clinic's 30 years of service to the D.C. area LGBT community are legendary. ''We were the first LGBT-focused health care provider in the city,''...

  • Let's Hear It for the Boi

    By on June 4, 2008

    Ladies and gentlemen, bois and grrls of all ages, E-Cleff has entered the building. And judging from past experience, she might take few hearts when...

  • Metro DC PFLAG

    By on June 4, 2008

    It's hard to miss the Metro D.C. PFLAG contingent as they march along the Capital Pride Parade route. This collection of parents, family and friends...

  • Pride Sponsors

    By on June 4, 2008

    Capital Pride Sponsors 2008 Presenting Sponsor: Southwest Airlines Capital Sponsors: Metro Weekly Suntrust Bank Washington Blade Legacy Sponsors: Wachovia Bank Whole Foods Yuengling Advocate Sponsor:...

  • Pride Scopes

    By on June 4, 2008

    Heavenly Round Up: There is chaos under heaven and the situation is excellent! Surely those words make this a day to remember, a day to...

  • One in Ten

    By on June 4, 2008

    Margaret Murray, executive director of One In Ten, was brand-new to Washington when she found herself walking through the 2006 Capital Pride Festival along Pennsylvania...

  • The Center

    By on June 4, 2008

    For both The Center, ''Home for GLBT in Metro DC,'' and the D.C. Crystal Meth Working Group (CMWG) it sponsors, things have been busy since...

  • Pretty Powerful

    By on June 4, 2008

    The Maryland-based band Odd Girl Out was named after a lesbian pulp novel, but it shares a name with a popular book that was turned...

  • National Youth Advocacy Coalition

    By on June 4, 2008

    Since the early 1990s, the Washington-based National Youth Advocacy Coalition (NYAC) has taken a social-justice approach to improving the physical and emotional well-being of lesbian,...

  • Arlington Gay and Lesbian Alliance (AGLA)

    By on June 4, 2008

    When it comes to Washington's GLBT community, Virginia isn't just a place that lies across the Potomac -- it's a full and vibrant part of...

  • Spirited Connection

    By on June 4, 2008

    Jason Warner and deMarco DeCiccio know they've sown some confusion out there. ''I think where people get confused is, are we gay? Yes. Are we...

  • Radical Faeries

    By on June 4, 2008

    When Harry Hay, founder of the gay-pioneering Mattachine Society and a leftist, was called to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s,...