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BREAKING: NAACP Supports Marriage Equality, Says Position Is “Consistent With Equal Protection”
Today, the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People endorsed the rights of same-sex couples to marry, stating in...
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Joel Stein reads from Man Made at Sixth & I Synagogue
Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity explores the absurdities of modern masculinity from Time columnist Joel Stein. The funny and poignant book was provoked...
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Schemekel at the Washington Jewish Music Festival
Now in its 13th year, the Washington Jewish Music Festival winds down with at least one concert of definite LGBT appeal tomorrow, Sunday, May 20,...
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Lesbian Couple Can Divorce in Maryland: Court Rules State Recognizes Valid Same-Sex Marriages Performed Elsewhere
Maryland’s highest court today held that a lesbian couple who had been married in California can get divorced in Maryland, echoing and making law a...
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A Little Bloated
How does a family endure? Studio Theatre 2ndStage's The Big Meal is entirely preoccupied with that question, and curiously, its answer is found in an...
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Bull's Eye
Let's get one thing out of the way: Bernie is about much more than a real-life murder. ''What you're fixin' to see is a true...
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Marking IDAHO at HRC
Activists around the globe marked the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) Thursday, May 17, a date chosen to mark the World Health Organization's...
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Donna Summer’s everlasting dance
When I first came out as a college student in the mid-‘90s, the gay dance club in Columbia, Mo., would end the night with Donna...
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Obama Administration Issues LGBT-Inclusive Rules Aimed at Eliminating Prison Sexual Assault
Today, the Obama administration announced that it has finalized regulations implementing the Prison Rape Elimination Act. According to an executive summary provided to members of...
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Beautiful Dreamers
If opera is your music for heartbreak and plots be damned, then Massenet's gorgeously overwrought Werther is for you. This is boy meets already-engaged girl...
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Martyr Complex
Was Saint Sebastian gay? History is actually iffy on the subject. But the celebrated, martyred Christian is sometimes referred to as ''a homosexual icon,'' in...
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Black Comedy
Even Jack Black isn't sure if his newest film, Bernie (see review, page 54) is a comedy or a tragedy -- but don't hold that...
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What's your favorite Donna Summer song?
// Read Doug Rule's post remembering Donna Summer in
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Theatre Lab’s Dramathon
The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts reprises last year’s popular Dramathon tomorrow, Friday, May 18. The Dramathon features eight 10-minute plays, written in...
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Dustin Lance Black’s Prop 8 Play Coming to DC for Pride
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announced a one-night-only reading of 8, Dustin Lance Black’s play about the trial over the constitutionality of Proposition 8, to take...
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New Video: Nicki Minaj “Right By My Side”
Nicki Minaj has released the video for “Right By My Side,” featuring Chris Brown. It’s the latest single off her new album Pink Friday: Roman...
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Mid City Artists’ Spring Open Studios Tour is Saturday
Artists who are part of the Mid City Artists collaborative open their studios for the public to meet, learn, enjoy and buy art as part...
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Philadelphia: Promoting art in the City of Brotherly Love
Just days before the opening of the Barnes Foundation’s Philadelphia campus on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia yesterday launched the city’s first-ever coordinated and sustained visual...
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LGBT Locals Cheer Obama's Marriage-Equality Stance
To say that the reaction of the D.C. area's LGBT community to President Barack Obama's endorsement of marriage equality was favorable would be the understatement...
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School Dances
''Do you know that I performed at the national festival 20 years ago?'' Diane DeFries of the American College Dance Festival Association says she hears...
