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Joey Arias Returns to L’Enfant’s Speak Eeasy
Following on its insanely popular brunch house party La Boum every Saturday and the annual Bastille Day French Maid Relay Race, L’Enfant Cafe and Bar...
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Capitol Hill’s 55th Annual House and Garden Tour
The Capitol Hill Restoration Society is hosting its 55th annual tour, this year highlighting homes constructed in the last quarter of the 19th century in...
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Marriage Equality Question Expected When ABC’s Robin Roberts Interviews Obama Today
At 1:30 p.m. today, President Obama is due to sit down with ABC’s Robin Roberts, and the topic of marriage equality is expected to be...
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Bad Faith
Every night right now at Broadway's St. James Theatre, officials are taking donations, passing around collection plates as if the audience were a congregation at...
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Reflective Rufus
Rufus Wainwright is 38 going on 60. His new album Out Of The Game starts with an older man's jokey lament about his wilder days...
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Janet Napolitano Mum on Marriage Equality
This morning, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano spoke at the Center for American Progress. After a submitted question about marriage equality was not...
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BREAKING: North Carolina Voters Pass Amendment 1
North Carolina voters went to the polls today and passed the first statewide marriage amendment since Arizona, California and Florida...
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EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Huelskamp Plans to Offer Amendment Barring DOJ From Opposing DOMA
In a conference call town hall held tonight with constituents, Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas), in response to a question about interstate marriage rights for same-sex...
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Feasting at DCAC
The D.C. Arts Center presents its biennial fundraiser this Thursday, May 10, in which visionary and culinary artists are paired to concoct edible art, from...
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House Committee Plans to Consider Measures Devised With Support of Anti-LGBT Groups, Email Shows
Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) plans to introduce an amendment on Wednesday to the National Defense Authorization Act in a mark-up of the bill before the...
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Carney Signals Obama Comments Coming on Marriage Equality, Talks About Maurice Sendak’s Death
On their way to Albany, New York, today, White House press secretary Jay Carney took some more questions about the president and vice president’s views...
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Capital Pride Accepts Charity Challenge
Capital Pride's ''Friends of Pride,'' a special recognition for those individual donors who help keep the annual LGBT festival free for attendees, isn't new. But...
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Vote Now for DC's Favorite Otter!
On May 4, 2012, Metro Weekly joined all the otters at the DC Eagle for Otter Crossing, the monthly gathering for D.C.'s scruffy, hirsute set...
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HRC, CAP, Williams Make Public Their Research On LGBT Workplace Discrimination
Today, the Human Rights Campaign, Center for American Progress and Williams Institute — none of which are known as...
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Destination: Palm Springs
In the heart of Southern California, Palm Springs is a top gay-friendly destination. This desert city offers LGBT travelers a wealth of outstanding activities and...
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White House Spokesman on Marriage: “The president is the right person to describe his own personal views.”
Today’s White House press briefing focused extensively on the questions of where the president and vice president stand on marriage equality — and left little...
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TransPride's May Move
In this season of pride, space on the calendar can be pretty tricky to come by. But Capital TransPride did a good job at securing...
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Biden on Marriage Equality: From “Evolving” in 2010 to “Absolutely Comfortable” Today
To see Vice President Joseph Biden’s own evolution on marriage equality, one need only look at the difference between his answer today to David Gregory...
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Biden’s “Words Speak for Themselves” on His “Belief in Marriage Equality,” Incoming HRC Head Griffin Says
Speaking with Metro Weekly just now, Chad Griffin — the founder of the American Foundation for Equal Rights who is due to become the president...
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News Analysis: Through the Obama Administration’s Marriage Equality Looking-Glass
This morning, on Meet the Press, Vice President Joseph Biden was asked about marriage equality — and opened another day of debate about which words...
