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Pack your rainbow beads! Pride season has arrived!
Tens of thousands attended the 3rd annual Miami Beach Gay Pride parade and festival on Saturday, April 16. Approximately one in four LGBT travelers are...
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HRC Criticizes Boehner for Endorsing Budget Cuts to DOJ Funding
The Human Rights Campaign released a statement today, April 18, criticizing Speaker John Boehner for “endorsing a right-wing plan to defund part of the Department...
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Las Vegas: Food, fun and fantasy
DAY 3 For my final full day in Sin City, I started with another spa treatment. This time I headed to the bathhouse at THEhotel,...
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American Airlines and Orbitz have a smackdown
The battle over selling fares between American Airlines and Orbitz, both strong supporters of the LGBT community and members of the International Gay and Lesbian...
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes… well, some do anyway.
Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe star in Howard Hawks' wicked musical romp Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. You may have heard the showstopper before — a little...
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Lord of the Rings Marathon
The Arlington Cinema N' Drafthouse will return all films in the Lord of the Rings trilogy to the big screen for a one-day marathon, Sunday,...
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Obama Issues Signing Statement on Budget With No Mention of District Riders
Today, President Barack Obama signed the budget bill that averted the government shutdown a week ago. In doing so, he issued a signing statement noting...
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GOP Rep. Franks Wants To Save Marriage; Dems Say They Do, Too — But In a Very Different Way
Today, the House Judiciary Submcommittee on the Constitution held its scheduled hearing on “Defending Marriage,” featuring testimony from the National Organization for Marriage head Maggie...
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Michael Feinstein at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall
More than 25 years since his professional recording debut, Michael Feinstein has become something of a gay activist. But he remains best known as a...
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The Who’s Tommy at AFI
The Who's 1975 film adaptation of their rock opera Tommy starred the band's Roger Daltrey in the title role as a "deaf, dumb and blind...
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2011 Capital Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Awards Dinner [video]
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray (D) spoke at the Capital Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce's (CAGLCC) Annual Awards dinner on Friday, April 8, at...
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Las Vegas: Ah, the spa and a hunk-a hunk-a burning love
DAY 2 I started my second day in Las Vegas by going to The Spa at Encore. I hit the fitness center first (I was...
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“Defending Marriage” House Hearing Panelists Set for Friday
On Friday, April 15, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution will take a look at “Defending Marriage” in a hearing called by the subcommittee...
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Delayed, Not Defeated
Hours after the Maryland Senate killed the Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Act, House Bill 235, Sen. Richard Madaleno (D-Montgomery), the only out LGBT member of the...
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Four Diligent Decades
It may not have been a courtroom, but one sunny afternoon in October 2009, a generic D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics hearing room was...
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Adoption Politics
On April 20 and 21, the Virginia State Board of Social Services will meet to consider ''adopting new standards for licensed private child-placing agencies,'' which...
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Judging Judges
On Thursday, April 7, the Senate Judiciary Committee moved forward the nomination of J. Paul Oetken, who was nominated for a judgeship in the Southern...
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Briggs Initiative
If Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Area seems like a mouthful, don't fret. The folks affiliated with...
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The Omega Man
Once upon a time, at a jam-packed gay bar known as the Frat House, there was a rush on Rush. ''We actually stopped selling liquor...
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Express Yourself
The three characters in Gustavo Ott's Divorcees, Evangelists and Vegetarians, now at GALA Theatre, are not played by drag queens, though it's easy to imagine...
