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  • Searching for Home

    By on April 5, 2006

    Sandy Douglass knows the ins and outs of aging. She's the CEO of The Methodist Home of the District of Columbia, a non-profit retirement community...

  • Trans-American

    By on March 29, 2006

    When Ruby Corado arrived in the Washington area as an immigrant from El Salvador, she was a teenager. She was also male. ''What marked the...

  • Chair Apparent

    By on March 22, 2006

    The second in an occasional series of interviews and stories on the 2006 D.C. mayoral and Council races. Linda Cropp It's definitely election season when...

  • Joe Solmonese

    By on March 15, 2006

    ''This weekend is all about the election.'' As almost 200 people are streaming into D.C. for the Human Rights Campaign's annual spring meeting, Joe Solmonese...

  • Last Call on O Street

    By on March 8, 2006

    As baseball comes in, a neighborhood goes out. Some may view Southeast's O Street strip -- a conglomeration of drag shows, strip bars, bathhouses and...

  • Forever Annie's

    By on March 1, 2006

    Some say it's a landmark. Some say it's an institution. Some call it a part of Washington's gay identity. Whatever Annie's Paramount Steakhouse is, there's...

  • Worlds in Motion

    By on February 22, 2006

    An unexpected moment in a quiet Cuban store provided an epiphany of sorts for Daniel Phoenix Singh. The store's proprietor, an elderly woman, was dancing...

  • Searching for STDs

    By on February 15, 2006

    Twelve months ago, almost to the week, gay men were hearing the alarm about STDs on the horizon: a new ''super strain'' of HIV and...

  • Open Secret

    By on February 8, 2006

    I knew two things about my 17-year-old self when I decided to attend a conservative, private Southern college where the students had a well-known antipathy...

  • Household Hell

    By on February 8, 2006

    There are generally a few more ''firsts'' for a gay man than for his hetero counterpart. The straight boy can lose his virginity in --...

  • Vocabulary Lessons

    By on February 8, 2006

    Something about the basement classrooms of my middle school building gives me the creeps; I am not comfortable in any of them, except maybe Spanish...

  • Artful Experience

    By on February 1, 2006

    Quick, think of a gym. Here are some of the things you likely just pictured in your mind: racks of weights, sweaty bodies, spinning classes,...

  • Tell-Tale Start

    By on January 25, 2006

    Matt Conner cannot read music. But that hasn't stopped him from playing the piano for nearly three decades. He particularly likes to play in the...

  • Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend 2006

    By on January 18, 2006

    For the second year in a row, Rehoboth's Double L Bar has launched a leather legend, as judges selected Scott Harris to serve as Mr....

  • Eleven Flavors of Local Leather

    By on January 11, 2006

    Centaur Motorcycle Club D.C. Bear Club Defenders Levi/Leather Club (LLC), Washington, D.C.