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  • Appreciation

    By on January 12, 2005

    Last Thursday morning, January 6, at 5:15 a.m., one of the GLBT community's biggest hearts gave out. The passing of Billy Collison at the age...

  • New Year, New You

    By on January 5, 2005

    The holiday debt has racked up and the Christmas cookies have morphed into another inch for your waist size. The madness, however, wrapped itself up...

  • Scene 2004

    By on December 29, 2004

    Scene 2004: The Year in Pictures More than 5700 Photos of D.C.'s GLBT Community over the past 12 months

  • 2004: The Year in Review

    By on December 22, 2004

    We had the strangest dream about 2004. Everything was carefree and gay, and the good fairies had done away with sodomy laws and we were...

  • Will Bell

    By on December 15, 2004

    Will Bell There is a chance that Will Bell may be having a mild quarter-life crisis. ''I have my education to fall back on, I've...

  • Allix Allot

    By on December 15, 2004

    Allix Allot A couple years ago Allix met a boy at Nation. After dancing together for a while, they started making out and their hands...

  • Where Do We Fit?

    By on December 8, 2004

    With the November elections five weeks past, people are finally turning away from electoral discussions. Who could blame the voters on the losing side if...

  • Art History

    By on December 1, 2004

    Peter Stebbins remembers meeting David Jamieson when the two entered the University of Vermont as freshman in 1983. ''I came home to find a gathering...

  • 'Our Heroes: A 20-Year Journey of AIDS Through Our Eyes'

    By on December 1, 2004

    Martin Luther King Jr. Public Library 901 G St., NW Multiple exhibits through Dec. 31 LaQuis Harkins, ''And So Goes a Nation'' poetry reading 6:30-8:30...

  • Next Exit 4 Years: Mapping a New Direction

    By on November 17, 2004

    Los Angeles and New York may be the country's cultural poles, but Washington sets the tone. The web of executive decisions, bureaucratic regulations, Supreme Court...

  • Brother Bears

    By on November 10, 2004

    With cold weather quickly taking hold and banishing any lingering thoughts of summer, it's becoming the time of year when nature prepares for the coming...

  • Community Kitchen

    By on November 3, 2004

    Food & Friends started from scratch in 1988, when the Rev. Carla Gorrell decided that she wanted to help nourish Washingtonians suffering from AIDS-related illnesses....

  • Chef's Best

    By on November 3, 2004

    Graham Beard Graham Beard, Volunteer Graham Beard holds the distinction of being Food & Friends' first volunteer, having responded to a classified ad in 1988....

  • Local Leverage

    By on October 27, 2004

    By so many measures, the 2004 presidential race is unprecedented. The George W. Bush vs. John Kerry slugfest is breaking records with money spent and...

  • Executive Director, The Sequel

    By on October 20, 2004

    As crowds of filmgoers enjoy Reel Affirmations, the 14th annual installment of Washington's GLBT film festival, they may be unaware that changes are afoot. Carlos...