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Dressed to Kill
You can learn a lot about other people by trying to be one of them. At least, that's the lesson I learned years ago, the...
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Touting Terror
Fear bonds people together. So do joy, lust and a number of other extreme emotions. It's just that fear rarely receives its due. Rather, communal...
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A Royal Outing
Halloween has always been a holiday particularly well celebrated by two groups of people -- the queer community and kids. In the past few years,...
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Daniel's Choice
Lt. Daniel Choi -- West Point grad, Arabic linguist, platoon leader, Iraq War veteran -- isn't the first soldier to be targeted by the military's...
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Reel Affirmations 19 (2009)
Thursday, 10/15/2009 7:00 pm An Englishman in New
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Shelly Bailes, Davis, Calif.
Shelly Bailes Dustin Lance Black. The cast of Hair. Lady Gaga. Between the National Equality March and the HRC National Dinner, D.C. will definitely be...
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Ebonee Bradford, Atlanta
Ebonee Bradford Most people understand what the phrase ''David versus Goliath'' means. It's unlikely, however, that anybody has lived the meaning of the phrase as...
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Donaven Green, Columbus, Ohio
Donaven Green Donaven Green, 26, travels often between his home in Columbus, Ohio, and Washington, D.C. -- his boyfriend lives in the District. Still, Green,...
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Rick Garcia, Chicago
Rick Garcia (Photo by Kat Fitzgerald / Windy City Times) Rick Garcia is not attending the Equality March as the political director of Equality Illinois,...
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Marina Gomberg, Salt Lake City
Marina Gomberg When Cleve Jones spoke at Salt Lake City's Utah Pride Fest in June, calling for another march on Washington for GLBT equality, the...
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Dimas Natividad, Albuquerque, N.M.
Dimas Natividad Dimas Natividad has never been to Washington before. But that's not to say he's not interested in politics. At 19, the sophomore student...
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Tobias Packer, Miami
Tobias Packer Florida has a reputation. Two, actually. The glamorous one involves the miles of sizzling beaches, the excruciatingly hip South Beach and the final...
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Stuart Wilber, Seattle
Stuart Wilber At 71, Stuart Wilber may be of retirement age. But put away your brochures for age-restricted golfing communities or shuffleboard tournaments -- he's...
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Lisa Wojehowski, Monroe, N.Y.
Lisa Wojehowski Lisa Wojehowski says it's her duty as a young, straight person to stand up for other people's rights. ''What I always say to...
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Marshall Wong, Los Angeles
Marshall Wong Of those coming to D.C. for the National Equality March, Marshall Wong's face may be one of the more familiar to Washingtonians. Although...
