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  • Masculine Impressions at Vitruvian Gallery

    By on April 22, 2012

    Masculine Impressions is the latest titillating exhibit to come to Vitruvian Gallery, the gallery devoted to male figurative art. Gary Fisher’s latest series of artworks,...

  • Coverboy: Dustin

    By on April 22, 2012

    A professional photographer with traditional roots, Dustin has a nontraditional outlook on life. The Louisiana-born, Florida-raised Southern boy living in Rockville likes to buck the...

  • LGBT Rally Draws Tiny Crowd in D.C.

    By on April 21, 2012

    Despite low attendance, participants in today's rally for LGBT civil rights – part of the Let's Reach One Million People LGBTQIA Equality Campaign – said...

  • Video: Payphone by Maroon 5

    By on April 20, 2012

    Maroon 5 announced their highly anticipated fourth studio album Overexposed, slated to debut June 26. The album’s first single, “Payphone,” features Wiz Khalifia and is...

  • BREAKING: White House Endorses Safe Schools Bill and Student Non-Discrimination Act

    By on April 20, 2012

    The White House today announced that President Obama is endorsing the Safe Schools Improvement Act (SSIA) and Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA), two bills pending in...

  • Closer to Home

    By on April 20, 2012

    David Mariner is on the verge of happiness. Just about 50 signatures away, actually. ''If we get 500 signatures, I'll be very happy,'' says Mariner,...

  • Romney Hires Out Gay Spokesman to Tackle Foreign Affairs and National Security Issues

    By on April 19, 2012

    Mitt Romney’s campaign tonight announced that it has hired Richard Grenell, an out gay former George W. Bush administration official, to serve as the presumptive...

  • Museveni Denies Ugandan Gay Discrimination

    By on April 19, 2012

    Yoweri Museveni, the Ugandan president, spoke with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour for an exclusive interview, Wednesday, in which he extensively denied that gay discrimination is present...

  • New Video: Hills Like Elephants’s Invisible Ink

    By on April 19, 2012

    San Diego-based Hill Like Elephants recently released its debut album, The Endless Charade (Requiemme Records/BMG Chrysalis). Their video single, “Invisible Ink,” is below. More about...

  • 2nd Annual Home & Design Weekend

    By on April 19, 2012

    The real estate firm Washington Fine Properties celebrates design and home furnishings offered by merchants on or near 14th Street NW and including free in-store...

  • Cylindrical Cinema

    By on April 19, 2012

    Kerry Brougher doesn't think architect Gordon Bunshaft or other developers of the Hirshhorn Museum anticipated that the circular, donut-shaped building, completed in 1974, would one...

  • Nightclubbing

    By on April 19, 2012

    Roxann Rowley wasn't struck by lightning, but a similar experience sparked her dance career. ''I was hit by a car crossing the street,'' Rowley explains,...

  • Horoscope

    By on April 19, 2012

    Heavenly Round-Up: You can wake yourself from the dream state into which you've fallen. You can extricate yourself from the web of suppositions and innuendoes...

  • Tickets on sale Saturday for that lollipop quintet, One Direction

    By on April 19, 2012

    One Direction, the British boy band — and not the California pop group, suing Simon Cowell and co. for stealing their already established name —...

  • Stick in the Eye

    By on April 19, 2012

    Whether or not we are hard-core political junkies, most of us in the LGBT community share some common understandings about politics as it relates to...

  • HIV Bills Moving Swiftly in D.C.

    By on April 19, 2012

    Two bills designed to increase awareness and promote a dialogue on HIV/AIDS between patients and service providers are closer to becoming law after being passed...

  • Marriage Matters

    By on April 19, 2012

    Internalized homophobia is commonplace. You could say it's the result of powerful marketing – repeated catch phrases, sermons and punditry reinforcing a notion that gay...

  • Signs of Life for Anti-Bullying Initiatives in D.C.

    By on April 19, 2012

    A City Council bill aimed at preventing physical and electronic forms of harassment, intimidation and bullying in District schools, libraries, parks and recreation centers –...

  • Sweet 16 in Dupont

    By on April 19, 2012

    While Youth Pride Day may have gotten its start in Dupont Circle, there was much more room out of the way down at P Street...

  • GLAA Celebrates 41st Anniversary

    By on April 19, 2012

    The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C. (GLAA), the nation's oldest continuously running gay rights advocacy organization, will mark its 41st anniversary with...