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  • Storytelling

    By on April 16, 2003

    It wasn't enough. It wasn't enough for Phillip Pike to be a lawyer fighting for human rights. It wasn't enough to be a black gay...

  • Youthful Spirit

    By on April 9, 2003

    Seven isn't just a lucky number. It's also a sign of how far things have come. Once again taking place on the greens of P...

  • Covert Operations

    By on April 9, 2003

    Americans love a photo op, especially when it involves two of America's most hallowed institutions -- patriotism and heterosexuality. For many people, Life magazine snapshots...

  • Jazzman

    By on April 2, 2003

    My lovers suffocate me, Crowding my lips, thick in the pores of my skin, Jostling me through streets and public halls, coming naked to me...

  • Maternal Instinct

    By on March 26, 2003

    Photography by Michael Wichita ''Don't let the elephants fool you, '' says Sheron Rosen, gesturing toward an array of pachyderm figurines standing in various parts...

  • Traveling Man

    By on March 26, 2003

    If he has his druthers after August, Tom Judson may never stay in another hotel again as long he lives. Not after a year of...

  • Monumentally Frank

    By on March 19, 2003

    Original Photography by Michael Wichita Gays in Congress, while not exactly a dime a dozen these days, are also not the anomaly they once were....

  • Body and Soul

    By on March 12, 2003

    Things would be much easier if that proverbial apple a day really did keep the doctor away. But getting and staying healthy is, of course,...

  • National LGBT Health Awareness Week

    By on March 12, 2003

    The first annual National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health Awareness Week starts on Sunday, March 16. Local sponsors include Whitman-Walker Clinic, The Mautner Project...

  • Crawl Space

    By on March 12, 2003

    ''I'm pooped,'' I thought -- fully aware of and quite pleased with my double entendre -- as I crawled out of the Colossal Colon. The...

  • Rocky's Road

    By on March 5, 2003

    Photography by Todd Franson Even in the early afternoon hours before the restaurant opens for dinner, you can feel the warmth in Rocky's Café. Maybe...

  • Checking In with Food & Friends

    By on March 5, 2003

    Shniderman ''This has been the winter from hell,'' says Food & Friends executive director Craig M. Shniderman, bemoaning the relative onslaught of snow that, in...

  • Orchestral Maneuvers

    By on February 26, 2003

    If anyone can get away with a techno remix of such revered American orchestral music as Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring, it's Jonathan Sheffer. ''I don't...

  • Busch League

    By on February 19, 2003

    If you've seen Psycho Beach Party -- either the wild and wacky Source Theatre production of more than a decade ago or the more subdued...

  • Heavenly Honeymoons

    By on February 12, 2003

    Whether you tied the knot in a giant church ceremony or quickly ducked in to the domestic partner registration office, you don't want to skip...