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Global LGBT Briefs: From Sea to Sofia, and State
No Casablanca Date for RSVP Gay Cruise An RSVP Vacations gay cruise expected to visit Casablanca, Morocco, July 1, was reportedly barred from making the...
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DC GOP Adopts Inclusive Platform
The D.C. Republican Committee, the District's equivalent of a state party, has become the first Republican state party to endorse LGBT-inclusive language into its party...
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Serious Business
Next month, Washington will play host to AIDS 2012: The XIX International AIDS Conference and its 20,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries – including 800...
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Stuck
Myths are a special kind of story. They're always changing, adding new colors and flavors to time-tested formulas. No two versions need be the same,...
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Plea Deal Offered to Three in Howard Theatre Stabbing
This morning, three co-defendants accused of stabbing a 16-year-old male three times while yelling homophobic slurs at him had their preliminary hearing continued to Monday,...
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Google announces the closure of more apps and services
On its blog yesterday, Google officially announced the shutdown of several applications, notably the Google Mini, an Enterprise search tool; Google Talk Chatback, which “allowed...
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The Keegan gets a Spring Awakening
Inspired by Frank Wedekind’s controversial 1891 play about teenage sexuality and society’s efforts to control it, Spring Awakening was the toast of Broadway in 2006,...
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Wolf Trap presents Don Giovanni
Mozart’s celebrated dramatic comedy Don Giovanni tells the story of a famous womanizer who is given one last chance to repent. Wolf Trap presents a...
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LCR’s Christian Berle Leaving To Help Richard Tisei, Out Gay GOP Candidate in Massachusetts
Christian Berle, the deputy executive director at Log Cabin Republicans, is leaving his job at the organization formed to represent gay Republicans to join the...
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DOJ Denies Any “Policy” on DOMA-Impacted Cases at Immigration Appeals Board
In response to Metro Weekly‘s exclusive June 19 report on a series of decisions from the Department of Justice’s Board of Immigration Appeals that sent...
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Pink streams her newest single, Blow Me (One More Kiss)
Pink has made her newest single, the playfully titled “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)” available for streaming. Listen to it here. Follow @metroweekly Get Soundwaves...
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Questions on Crime
Members of the D.C. City Council chastised the Metropolitan Police Department for a perceived failure to effectively engage local community members on initiatives aimed at...
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Life in Coopersville
Naturally, I already knew that Anderson Cooper was gay, for a number of reasons. First, I work in Washington as a journalist, an industry of...
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Hurry! Bachelorette at The Studio Theatre closes Sunday!
It’s worth knowing that Bachelorette has made playwright Leslye Headland a very, very popular woman. This was the play, after all, that attracted Hollywood goofballs...
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HBO Go now on Android Tablets! Let the Game of Thrones begin!
HBO Go, HBO’s terrific streaming service, is now available on Android Tablets, reports Mark Raby at Slashgear. This is great news for HBO subscribers who...
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Best Buy puts the new MacBooks on sale. Good luck finding one.
Ian Paul reports in PC World that Best Buy has cut prices on several Apple computers, including the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display. It’s...
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Montgomery College’s LGBT Portraits of Life
Portraits of Life: LGBT Stories of Being focuses on gay residents of Maryland’s Montgomery County who have contributed to its success, including Montgomery College President...
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With Anderson out, colleagues praise the move as “honest,” saying he’s “helped many”
Today’s coming-out letter from...
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Anderson Cooper officially comes out to Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish
“It’s become clear to me that by remaining silent on certain aspects of my personal life for so long, I have given some the mistaken...
