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Gender Rights Bill Stuck in Senate
A bill in the Maryland General Assembly that would prohibit discrimination based on gender identity in public accommodations, housing, employment, licensing and commercial leasing looks...
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Pink Palace
There's a refurbished dance floor, which will be flanked by tables and chairs. There's also an enhanced sound system and more lights. But the biggest...
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Close Up
In the intimate, delicately wrought period drama Albert Nobbs, Glenn Close transforms herself into a 19th century Irishman who is concealing the fact that he...
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Albert's Champion
(continued from ''Close Up'') METRO WEEKLY: What a remarkable motion picture. I was engaged and moved by it on every possible level. Let's talk a...
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The Opposite of Albert
METRO WEEKLY: Though they share a similar circumstance, Hubert is the polar opposite of Albert. What was your approach to the character? JANET McTEER: Apart...
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Scruffy Songster
''It sounds like I talk about it all the time: I'm Twitter obsessed! Like a Kardashian!'' For the record, Aiden James only brought up Twitter...
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National News Briefs
Maine Ready To Take Back Marriage Rights This November, it looks like marriage equality may once again surrender itself to the judgment of Maine's voters....
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Review: Red
Paint splatters and spills like blood in Red, soaking skin and canvas alike as an aging artist and his young assistant toil in a Manhattan...
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Riffing on Republicans
How could anyone be funnier than Michele Bachmann or Herman Cain? ''I kid you not,'' says Ben Schatz of the Kinsey Sicks, ''there were jokes...
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Review: Aiden James
Aiden James is not just a pretty face, writing and singing pretty tunes. In fact, James could get by as your standard singer-songwriter, nothing more....
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Washington Senate Passes Marriage Equality Bill With a 28-21 Vote
[Photo: The Washington Senate, voting...
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Virginia Non-Discrimination Bill Dies in Committee on Party-Line Vote
November’s chickens have come home to roost for Virginia’s LGBT population. After Democrats lost two seats last year to split the Senate 20-20, and Lt....
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Anti-Abortion Site Credits Anti-LGBT Official With Komen’s Defunding of Planned Parenthood
On Tuesday, the pink-ribboned breast cancer charity known as Susan G. Komen for the Cure stopped issuing grant money to Planned Parenthood, a nationwide, nonprofit provider...
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News Analysis: Ninth Circuit Expects Prop 8 Trial Videotape Decision on Thursday
An appeals court ruling on whether the public should be able to watch video of the trial challenging Proposition 8 is expected on Thursday, Feb....
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Marriage Showdown at State Senate
The Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee heard more than four hours of testimony Tuesday from supporters and opponents of marriage equality as part of the...
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The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company at Smith Center
“Light Moves” is a collaborative piece, co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Center, from choreographer Margaret Jenkins working with media artist Naomie Kremer, composer Paul Dresher...
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Review: Wit
Cynthia Nixon laughs and laughs and laughs in one late scene in Wit. The actress even seems genuinely tickled, too. (Maybe she's reveling in the...
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A Sudden Loss
For regular readers of Metro Weekly or the Washington Blade, it's a good chance that Gary Teter handled more than one of the magazines or...
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Stacey Campfield: Insurance companies charge homosexuals higher rates due to shorter, dangerous lives
Tennessee state senator Stacey Campfield continued his media campaign against homosexuality and discussions about gay lives in schools by appearing on the David Pakman Show....
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BREAKING: Romney Coasting to Victory in Florida Primary
At the close of the polls in Florida at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, Fox News was...
