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2008: The Year in Preview
All dates are subject to change at each organizer's discretion. For more detailed information as the dates for events approach, contact each event organizer or...
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Holiday Tidings
Given the avaricious nature of the season -- when Santa treats everyone like a little baby Jesus, everybody wins -- it's no surprise that I...
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Two Christmases
In one of the more poignant moments of a motion picture that I hold dear -- a staple of my personal cinematic catalog -- there...
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Xmas Fear
This week I'll be heading to New Port Richey, Fla., to spend Christmas with my widowed mother who lives alone in a ''55 and older''...
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Coverboy of the Year: Adam Dahl
Adam Dahl When Adam Dahl and Metro Weekly last crossed paths in February he was still a newcomer to D.C. But the small-town Minnesota native...
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First Runner-Up: Jhimy Diaz
Jhimy Diaz Jhimy Diaz was 22 when he decided to leave his native Peru for ''a new life'' in the United States. And while he...
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Second Runner-Up: Ben Heisler
Ben Heisler Ben Heisler likes to live his life with full honesty -- and expects others to keep it real, too. And real, in his...
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Return of the King
It was the late 1990s when Wallace Acton decided he'd had his fill of metropolitan Washington. He packed his bags and moved to New York....
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For the Children
December 1, World AIDS Day, will again mark that sad anniversary that, while a time to tout advances such as an entirely new class of...
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Welcome to Town
John Guggenmos and Ed Bailey It's late October and the effort to create the latest addition to D.C.'s gay nightlife is in the home stretch....
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Avenging Angel
Fred Phelps will never go away. That's the harsh reality Romaine Patterson has come to realize about Phelps, leader of the infamously homophobic Westboro Baptist...
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Courting Greatness
In a world where gay professional sports icons are few and far between, Martina Navratilova definitely stands out. But even if the pro playing fields...
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Out for Business
Traditionally, when money moves in Washington, it's by appropriation. Stock trades and profit motives seem downright ruffian compared to the elegance of a five-star lunch...
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Past and Present
There's no better time to visit with ABilly S. Jones than during October. One on hand, it's when he celebrates his anniversary with his partner,...
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Leaning Toward Justice
In the 1960s, while confronting segregation, discrimination, obstruction of voting rights and physical violence, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. often borrowed the words of another...
