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Outspoken #43 – Drag Band [video]
In this installment of Outspoken, Ebone Bell heads over to Omega for the DC Different Drummers amateur drag event, ''DCDD Does Drag, Too'' on Sunday,...
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Protestors Picket Police and Prosecutors
More than 30 local activists representing a coalition of LGBT organizations protested in front of Metropolitan Police Department headquarters and the U.S. Attorney's Office for...
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California Supreme Court to Answer Standing Certified Question in Prop 8 Case
The winding challenge to California’s Proposition 8, which prohibits same-sex couples from marrying, will take another step on Thursday, Nov. 17. The California Supreme Court...
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Are We There Yet?
So, yes, it's lamentable that political progress is generally a stop-and-go affair, with long stretches of frustration and ennui punctuated by momentary outbursts of excitement...
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Court Rejects LCR Rehearing
Although the repeal of ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' was finalized Sept. 20, the lawsuit brought by Log Cabin Republicans challenging the constitutionality of DADT had...
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Battling the Blood Ban
Blood may be thicker than water. But a ban on blood donations may be thicker still. Members of George Washington University's Lambda Law, the LGBT...
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Sex and Identity Symposium
History may be written by the victors, but some local college students are forgoing what may be written in their textbooks and pursuing educational opportunities...
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News Briefs: Bullies, Barber and the FBI
House Alters Michigan Bullying Law After the Michigan Senate passed an anti-bullying law that contained a religious exemption, Michigan's House of Representatives responded to an...
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Midlife Aloha
Alexander Payne had made quite a name for himself on the backs of middle-aged discontents. In Election, it was the stagnant, scheming sort. In Sideways,...
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Wingspan
It's a warm November Thursday and Ted Clements is getting ready for business. He walks through the empty – almost hallowed – space on New...
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Bucking Tradition
Every city needs an alternative theater scene. Why? The official answer is that alternative theater speaks to and informs the norm, challenges tradition, broadens ideas...
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Victorian Nightmare
A stylized Victorian nightmare with lashes of Sam Peckinpah realism and the odd sporran, David Alden's rendering of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor isn't for everyone....
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Transcendent Disco
''The great irony is the fact that we're so associated with the gay dance world and the queer scene -- we're actually pretty much...
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Lasting Value
''Sometimes I'll look into the audience and I'll see people crying,'' says Suzanne Vega. ''Or I'll talk to someone after the show and they tell...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Are you awakening from a long dream? Or are you falling back into a semi-grounded fugue state? Retain your self-awareness as you progress...
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The bears come out to play in paradise
Bears in Paradise, a gay owned and operated, Vancouver-based tour company, is organizing Bear Break: Maui, March 24 to March 31, 2012. Maui has been voted...
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The Normal Heart national tour will launch at Arena Stage in June 2012
Arena Stage will launch the national tour of the 2011 Tony Award-winning production of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, to coincide with AIDS 2012, the...
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Winning in Cincinnati
“If some gay or lesbian kid in Cincinnati walks into school with their head a little higher after this, that’s the important thing.” Denis Dison,...
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HUD Secretary Supports Marriage Equality
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan became the first sitting cabinet secretary to announce support for marriage equality, saying on Nov. 15 that...
