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  • Family Feast: Food for Thought

    By on November 22, 2006

    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...

  • Family Feast: T-Day, My Way

    By on November 22, 2006

    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...

  • Big Business

    By on November 15, 2006

    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...

  • Soul Searching

    By on November 8, 2006

    ''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...

  • Calling All Voters

    By on November 1, 2006

    All good things must come to an end — even when ”good” is a somewhat relative term. So it is that on Tuesday, Nov. 7,...

  • From the Bottom Up

    By on November 1, 2006

    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...

  • Looking Down the Road

    By on November 1, 2006

    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...

  • A Dominion Decision

    By on November 1, 2006

    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...

  • A Homo Haunting

    By on October 25, 2006

    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...

  • Be Heeled!

    By on October 25, 2006

    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...

  • Petrifying Parties and Ghoulish Galas

    By on October 25, 2006

    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...

  • The Fine Print

    By on October 18, 2006

    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...

  • A Fight on Many Fronts

    By on October 18, 2006

    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...

  • Reel Affirmations 16

    By on October 11, 2006

    Here's your advanced look at this year's Reel Affirmations festival presentations, from Thursday, October 12 - Saturday, 21, 2006: Reviews by Tom Avila, Sean Bugg,...

  • Gay Is Good

    By on October 4, 2006

    Frank Kameny's life in the upper Northwest, Palisades corner of Washington looks quiet enough. The retiree lives in a modest home on a serene, tree-lined...