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Obit: Jeff Coudriet
Sunday was somber as news spread about the passing of local gay activist Jeff Coudriet. After several months of battling lung cancer, Coudriet, a native...
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Out in the Silence at Artisphere
D.C.-based filmmakers Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer’s 2010 documentary Out In The Silence focuses on a popular young jock brutally bullied at his small-town high...
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Why Is the Craig Ferguson Sketch Anti-Trans?
It turns out that claiming something is anti-trans humor stirs up people, and brings them out of the woodwork to tell you why you have...
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The Alexandria Kleztet
Exciting and innovative, the Alexandria Kleztet has been combining traditional Eastern European Jewish music with diverse influences for more than a decade. The free concert...
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Tynan at the Studio Theatre
Philip Goodwin stars in Tynan, a one-man show, from Richard Nelson and Colin Chambers, about the great theater critic Kenneth Tynan, based on his diaries...
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Evil Cat
The Washington Psychotronic Film Society, dedicated to independent, experimental, low-budget, off-the-beaten-path filmmaking, presents a weekly Tuesday night screening series. This Tuesday offers the 1986 film...
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Rhianna returns to sex theme with video for ‘S&M’ [video]
”I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.Sex in the air, I don’t care, I love the smell of it.Sticks and stones may...
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Do heteros need a proximity detector? Gay hook-up service, Grindr, aims to find out
”It shows the whole range of gay men…. They just want to hook up…. I don’t know that that’s going to work for girls. They...
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Anne Rice tells gay son, Christopher: My 12-year study showed Catholic Church ‘was dishonorable, dishonest… immoral’ [video]
”That was a Catholic who wrote to me. She is very upset that I left the Catholic Church, and she writes e-mail after e-mail, and...
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Activist: Ferguson’s Sketch Only Funny If “Transgender People [Are] a Human Punchline”
Following up on the Metro Weekly post about Craig Ferguson’s Feb. 4 sketch featuring his “half-sister” — played by a man and named “Peg” —...
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Unevenlane at Dance Place
Under the artistic direction of founder Mary Lane, Unevenlane offers stories connecting with emotions to create richly layered dances full of curious intersections, angles, and...
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An Almost Holy Picture
Maryland-based playwright Heather McDonald’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated An Almost Holy Picture follows one man’s odyssey from Massachusetts to New Mexico, from despair to triumph, heeding a...
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UK court finds Ugandan woman not a lesbian, denies her asylum
”I find that the Appellant was not and is not, on the evidence before me, a lesbian. ”er credibility is affected by her conduct. l...
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CBS’s Craig Ferguson Sketch Mocks Trans “Character”
Tonight, the night after the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and National Center for Transgender Equality released a report about the widespread prevalence of...
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Kittleman Stands Alone
As marriage equality takes center stage among Maryland lawmakers, state Sen. Allan H. Kittleman (R-Carroll, Howard) garnered attention first for announcing that he would be...
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The Illusionist
Originally written by French comic genius and cinema legend Jacques Tati as a love letter from father to daughter, The Illusionist has been adapted by...
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Radio Macbeth
The SITI Company presents Radio Macbeth, which tells the story of Orson Welles and his company of actors (Mercury Theatre on the Air) rehearsing for...
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The Housemaid, opening at Landmark E Street
A deliriously stylish, searingly erotic thriller from Korea, The Housemaid explores what happens to an innocent girl in the employ of a rich and powerful...
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Ra Ra Rasputin at Strathmore
A D.C.-based dance/electronica band, Ra Ra Rasputin makes its debut at Strathmore as part of the venue’s Friday Night Eclectic party, where you can take...
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Prop 8 Decision Could Come Next Week, Chief Justice Says
The Los Angeles Times reports today on a Wednesday interview with the new California Supreme Court Chief Justice, in which she says the decision whether...
