Features
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Worlds in Motion
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...
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Searching for STDs
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...
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Open Secret
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...
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Household Hell
There are generally a few more ''firsts'' for a gay man than for his hetero counterpart. The straight boy can lose his virginity in --...
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Vocabulary Lessons
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...
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Artful Experience
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,...
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Tell-Tale Start
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...
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Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend 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....
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Eleven Flavors of Local Leather
Centaur Motorcycle Club D.C. Bear Club Defenders Levi/Leather Club (LLC), Washington, D.C.
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Reigning Leather
It's a question he hears all the time: ''Is that your real name?'' Yes, in fact, Steve Ranger is his God-given name. ''I'm just grateful...
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Leather Scribe
In October, 1971, Marcus Hernandez put pen to paper and began covering the San Francisco leather community. At age 74, he's still writing. Penned under...
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Health Matters
Crystalization CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE had D.C.'s gay community buzzing in 2005, but not in the usual way. In March, the D.C.-based National Coalition for LGBT Health...
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Bats and Balls
Who could avoid the biggest local news story of 2005, the return of baseball to D.C.? From the front page of newspapers to repetitive sportscasts,...
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Dearly Departed
Wanda Alston April 7, 1959 - March 16, 2005 GRIEF TRAVELED as fast as the news that Wanda Alston had been murdered in her Northeast...
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Best of the Last Word 2005
''It seems that editors at what are, arguably, the nation's most respected (and liberal) newspapers believe that one personal detail cannot be mentioned in even...
