Features
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It Starts with Human
For every 100,000 D.C. residents in 2004, 179 were diagnosed with AIDS, the highest rate in the nation. Out of the total D.C. population of...
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Family Feast: Cross Cultural
Cooking my first Thanksgiving dinner for my in-laws last year, things were going perfectly up until the point when I sliced off the tip of...
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Family Feast: Food for Thought
You probably wouldn't expect to eat Ghormeh Sabzi on Thanksgiving Day. And unless you're Persian, you probably have no idea what the hell Ghormeh Sabzi...
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Family Feast: T-Day, My Way
The first Thanksgiving dinners I remember were the most conventional. My family was still a nuclear one, living in suburban Springfield. Thanks to my Irish-American...
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Big Business
Irwin Drucker, a program director at IBM who is charged with locating GLBT-owned businesses for the technology giant's supply chain, remembers what it was like...
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Soul Searching
''Back away from the blog.'' That's hard for Andrew Sullivan to do, even if his partner and fiancé is the one asking him to do...
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Calling All Voters
All good things must come to an end — even when ”good” is a somewhat relative term. So it is that on Tuesday, Nov. 7,...
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From the Bottom Up
At the intersection of P and Ninth streets NW, there is evidence that the gay gentrification of Logan Circle may be creeping ever eastward. On...
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Looking Down the Road
It's no shocker to many gay activists that Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., who is running for reelection, ignored a questionnaire on gay related...
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A Dominion Decision
While D.C.'s election stories may have burned brightest back in September, the states that surround the nation's capital have taken up the torch for closely...
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Be Heeled!
Dorothy is not in Kansas anymore. She's busy fighting for her title as Washington, D.C.'s fastest high-heel runner, for the third consecutive year. ''I'm a...
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Petrifying Parties and Ghoulish Galas
If you had a hard time picking out a costume for Halloween, get ready to make another difficult decision: where to go. This year, D.C.'s...
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A Homo Haunting
There are any number of icons that pop up at Halloween. Skeletons, jack-o-lanterns, ghosts and witches readily come to mind. And though none is particularly...
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The Fine Print
Tuesday was a good day, as battles against anti-gay constitutional amendments go. That was the day the Washington Post released its latest polling on the...
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A Fight on Many Fronts
There may be plenty of gay people who don't care much about getting married, but there is no question that marriage is an issue at...
