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  • Toronto pumps up its gay tourism campaign for Pride 2011

    Tourism Toronto, Toronto’s Convention and Visitors Association, recently released a campy three-minute mock workout video (a parody of P90X) to invite LGBT travelers to experience the city’s...

  • Jennifer Holliday performs with the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington DC [video]

    Jennifer Holliday appeared with the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington for ''And I Am Telling You,'' the group's annual Pride concert, Saturday, June 4 at...

  • Grassroots Growth in Maryland

    Equality Maryland has served as Maryland's LGBT-advocacy organization for more than two decades, launched in 1990 as Free State Justice. Today, the group is facing...

  • Tour Tuesday: China and South Korea

    Kimchi Travel, a gay-owned, full service international travel company that specializes in tours of Asia, is offering a 12-day excursion through parts of China and...

  • Maryland Deal Declined

    Darrell Carrington, an at-large board member of Equality Maryland Inc., the lobbying arm of Equality Maryland, met with other board members of the organization on...

  • Legendary Tony Moran to join legendary Jennifer Holliday at Capital Pride!

    Capital Pride announced this morning that renowned DJ Tony Moran will perform with Jennifer Holliday on the MainStage at Sunday’s Capital Pride Festival. Holliday, who...

  • Show your Glee!

    Expect a lot of screaming girls — yes, really — in addition to a guaranteed gay contingent when the cast of Fox’s hit show Glee...

  • Everything’s coming up Bob Mould

    He may now call San Francisco home, but Bob Mould still stops in his former D.C. stomping grounds regularly, for the dance party Blowoff and...

  • The U.S. premiere of As If It Were Tonight

    Mario Marcel directs the U.S. premiere of Gracia Morales’ dramatic comedy As If It Were Tonight, starring Andrea Aranguren and Karen Morales-Chacana, focused on a...

  • 30 Years Later

    It's been 30 years since HIV and AIDS first emerged in America. To mark that sad anniversary, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is...

  • Behind the Covers

    Without people, there is no Pride. That was the guiding thought this year as we put together our ideas for the cover of this 13th...

  • The 2011 Capital Pride Planning Committee

    Capital Pride Board of Directors Michael Lutz, PresidentBernie Delia, Vice PresidentRaymond Panas, SecretaryAnne Scott, TreasurerAndrea FriedmanScott JacksonScott MallanVince MiconeMary ParadiseCheri Lee RoeRobert Turner IIJessie WashingtonJustin...

  • 2011 Capital Pride Community Partners

    AIDS Healthcare FoundationBlair Underwood Healthcare Center Founded in 1987, AIDS Healthcare Foundation known as AHF, is the largest global AIDS organization, offering free HIV testing...

  • Swiss Delicacy

    It might be a little puzzling that Bettina Schelker wrote a song called ''The Honeymoon is Over'' upon marrying the love of her life. But...

  • Madonnarama

    Here's an interesting fact: Adam Guerra has devoted so much of his life to drag and impersonating women, he only just bought his first bottle...

  • Party Monsters

    Want a little news with your nightlife at this year's Capital Pride? The headline party this year is at the Newseum on Friday, June 10,...

  • Mama's Family

    Ashland Miller and Laura Cerulli both feel like the black sheep of their respective families. ''Neither of our mothers feels that way, oddly enough,'' says...

  • Sister Spirit

    ''A lot of female emcees and rappers extra-hard and extra-serious and violent,'' says Be Steadwell, who goes by the nickname B. Steady in the...

  • Living the Life

    This year will be 24-year-old Jonathan Bascope's third year performing at the Capital Pride Festival. But this year also marks a first for the Northern...

  • Mo Show

    ''In all the years, and all the people that I've worked with,'' Missy Elliott recently told Lil' Mo, ''no one has ever done a tribute...