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Strong Words, But Still Evolving
Saturday evening, Oct. 1, President Barack Obama addressed the Human Rights Campaign for the second time in his presidency, speaking at the Washington Convention Center...
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Bending with Benevolence
A novel approach to helping women deal with breast cancer is coming to the District this month – possibly in the form of the ''downward-facing...
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Activists Voice Crime Concerns
Representatives from the District's various public safety agencies and the Mayor's Office of GLBT Affairs held an outreach meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 28, aimed at...
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Coverboy: Jason
Jason, 24, has a strong relationship with God, but is hesitant about church. He used to love it, even participating as a pastor's assistant. Then...
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PW's Prize
As of Oct. 1, Marc Carcione of Laurel is the second person to be named Mr. PW's Leather. The member of the DC Boys of...
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A Musical Mystery
Adam Gwon got the idea for his new musical The Boy Detective Fails from the most mysterious of places: Amazon.com. The online superstore's complicated algorithms...
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Giving Birth
It's fitting that Duncan Macmillan's Lungs is about childbirth -- as the inaugural production of the Studio Lab series, the newborn is a promising start...
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French Twist
Mon Dieu! If Les Misérables is 25 and I've been a fan since the beginning, then I must be -- well, I guess I'm no...
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Love Story
There are plenty of films that want to be Weekend. They trickle into multiplexes around the country a few times a year, feeding into a...
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Raising the Bar
Sitting on its prominent 17th Street corner, the expansive windows of JR.'s look out on a community that its helped become a little more ''out''...
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Fully Baked
Washington is a vibrant and dynamic city. For four years in recent history, however, some of D.C.'s pizzazz was muted, hidden behind a pall of...
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Girl on Film
Summer may be over, and so is 1987. With Dirty Girl, you can revisit both. It's hot, dismal and dusty. It's the end of the...
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The Melancholy Sadness
Women's professional tennis has been a hotbed for social change, from the hear-us-roar launch of the women's pro tour in the 1970s to the emergence...
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Refreshing
Is Andy Bell over electronic music? ''Then I go insane, I'm bored of this modern town,'' Erasure's gay frontman sings on one track of the...
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Win tickets to St. Vincent at the 9:30 Club
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White House Names Gautam Raghavan to LGBT Liaison Role
[Photo: Gautam Raghavan, the new White House “point of contact” on LGBT issues, is an associate director of public engagement in the White House Office...
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Out Gay Judicial Nominee Fitzgerald Has Senate Hearing
President Barack Obama’s fourth out LGBT judicial nominee, California attorney Michael...
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New “Cap” on House DOMA Defense Set at $1.5 Million, Additional Change Alters Payment Liability
On Oct. 1, the obligation of the federal government to pay for the House Republican leadership’s defense of the Defense of Marriage Act increased from...
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Pride Placements
Capital Pride, the organization responsible for the annual LGBT event of the same name, announced changes to the board and staff this morning, which were...
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Kimberly Dark’s Good Fortune
Writer and poet Kimberly Dark aims her new solo show Good Fortune to be “as spontaneous and individualized as a tarot card reading.” For the...
