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The 2011 Next Generation Awards
Every generation builds on the accomplishments of those who came before. The rights we enjoy today were secured by the work of the generation before...
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The 2011 Next Generation Awards Panel
The Next Generation Award winners are chosen from community nominations by a panel of local LGBT leaders. The 2011 Next Generation Awards selection panelists are:...
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Gregory Cendana
In no small way being taunted growing up in Sacramento, Calif., inspired Gregory Cendana to activism. ''Even though I wasn't out in elementary and middle...
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Victoria Kirby
Ralph Ellison wrote The Invisible Man as a novel exploring the narrator's sense of social invisibility as an African-American man of the early 20th century....
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Daniel Fredrick O'Neill
''It's a sobering thought, how affected our community still is – whether it's preventable in a lot of ways or not,'' says Daniel Fredrick O'Neill...
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Sadie Ryanne Vashti
It was just before Christmas of last year that Sadie Ryanne Vashti sent an email to her mother asking if she could return home to...
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Sondheim that Sates
You love Stephen Sondheim, the gay genius behind such masterful musicals as Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park With George, Into the Woods, Assassins, Passion......
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Ten-Minute Masterworks
''As far as we know it's probably the first time anyone in town has done something similar to this,'' says Jeff Scott, marketing and events...
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Auntie Hero
At first glance, the upcoming OutWrite ''Pioneers'' event at The Center, the area's LGBT community center, is already substantial, celebrating re-releases of two powerful books:...
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The Glory and the Gloom
With Placido Domingo singing his last role as general director of the Washington National Opera, it's hard not to take the somber – at times...
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Clark Bars
Jeremiah Clark was weaned on sad contemporary Christian songs. But now that's he secular? '' doesn't have to be Jesus on a cross...
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Stand Back
Stevie Nicks is back with her first album in 10 years – 30 years after her solo debut. She almost sounds like she never left....
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Cheers to Beer
While living in England nearly 30 years ago, Garrett Oliver developed a taste for beer. Real beer. Not beer mass-marketed in America, or what he...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: There's an undeniable something in the air. Everybody wants their ego stroked. Everybody wants to be acknowledged for their good points. Everybody wants...
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A Complicated Path
In El Paso, Texas, on May 10, President Barack Obama told the crowd assembled for a lengthy address on comprehensive immigration reform, ''I don't believe...
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Gay marriages on US Navy bases — on and off again
”My memorandum of 13 April 2011 is hereby suspended until further notice pending additional legal and policy review and inter-Departmental coordination.” Rear Admiral M.L Tidd,...
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Tour Tuesday: South Africa
Zoom Vacations is offering an 11-day tour of South Africa, August 25 to September 4, 2011. The tour includes a visit to Cape Town, a luxury...
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DOJ Files Motion to Dismiss Benefits Case Brought By DADT-Dismissed Vet
From the ACLU: WASHINGTON– The Department of Justice (DOJ) today filed a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties...
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Dorman, Now and Then
Attorney General Eric Holder’s unusual decision on May 5 to send the case of Paul Wilson Dorman, which had been before the U.S. Court of...
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Obama Does Not Mention Same-Sex Bi-National Couples in Extensive Immigration Speech
Today, in an extensive speech addressing his aims for comprehensive immigration reform, President Barack Obama spoke to a crowd in El Paso, Texas, about his...
