Features
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Outing the Vote
According to figures posted by the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics, the District of Columbia counts about 330,000 registered voters. About 90 percent of...
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Reel Affirmations 18
Welcome to Metro Weekly's guide to the Reel Affirmations film festival for 2008. There's more than 60 presentations of film and video shorts this year...
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Where We Live
Old Dominion Diversity It's akin to Wisteria Lane meeting reality. Welcome to the City of Falls Church, with manicured yards and sun-dappled flowers in planters...
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Gay History Month
In September, for example, the Library of Congress announced that a collection of materials from pioneering gay-rights local Frank Kameny, known as the Kameny Papers,...
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Milk-ing the Silver Screen
Harvey Milk, one of the pivotal figures in the gay-rights movement, will soon have his brilliant but too-short life and career depicted on the big...
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Bloc Party
Gay liberation was a product of its times. Its birth at the end of the '60s was no accident. By the time street queens and...
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Months to Mark the Years
The idea of Black Gay History is about as far out there as is Gay History Month, and the two curiosities are not unrelated. The...
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The Gold Standard
Mitchell Gold has been busy. Those Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams ''signature stores'' keep popping up, including the local outlet near 14th and Church Streets...
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Gender-Juggling
Special Agent Galactica is every woman. ''She's a rock chick. She is a '50s dynamo singer. She's pop. She is whatever is necessary,'' says Jeffrey...
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Schedule of Events
All performances at the Church Street Theater, 1742 Church St. NW Prices as noted, otherwise Pay What You Can. September 26 Opening Gala Featuring Holly...
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Irreverent Icon
Some might argue that ''icon'' is too reverent a word to apply to Holly Woodlawn. From Puerto Rico to Miami to Times Square, Woodlawn has...
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Fall Arts Preview 2008
James Davis as Juliet (Photo by Todd Franson) When I was a young lad, my father sat me down, looked me squarely in the eye...
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Film
Dates subject to change at the whim of a studio executive. September THE WOMEN -- The long-in-gestation remake of the 1939 George Cukor classic that...
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Stage
AMERICAN CENTURY THEATER 'Romeo and Juliet' at Shakespeare Theatre Gunston Theater II 2700 S. Lang St. Arlington, Va. 703-998-4555 www.americancentury.org · Dr. Cook's Garden --...
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Classical Music
BACH SINFONIA 301-362-6525 www.bachsinfonia.org The Genius of Haydn -- A festive program exploring a wide range of works by Haydn, including Overture to La Fedeltá...
