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Classical Treatment
''Until very recently, I went out of my way in all of my songs to... in the second person,'' says singer-songwriter Dar Williams. ''Because then...
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Swinging Standards
''It's all right for younger people to like older music,'' says pianist John Eaton, an expert of the Great American Songbook and jazz music from...
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Lesbian Laughs
In the early '90s, Suzanne Westenhoefer made the rounds of that era's spate of daytime talk shows -- hosted by the likes of Sally Jesse...
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Baked Alaska
Is Sarah Palin the Antichrist? “That’s to be interpreted by the ,” says Gross National Product’s John Simmons, referring to his theater company’s latest comedy...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You're still swimming against the tide. There's more good news there than you may be accustomed to noticing. One, you're still swimming. (You...
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Star Trek’s Brannon Braga: Gay squeamishness due to ‘family show’ time slot
”It was a shame for a lot of us that…. There were people who felt very strongly that we should be showing casually, you know,...
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Put on the Gloves Fashion Show Fundraiser at Town
Put On The Gloves Fashion Show is a benefit for the Trevor Project and its suicide prevention work. The event also benefits the Capital Queer...
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Tea, the high school lesbian, main focus of MTV ‘Skins: Episode 2’
”You want to know what we do, right? ‘What goes where? Who licks what?’ So tedious. I screw girls — so what? And only the...
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TV preacher Joel Osteen expands his history of anti-gay rhetoric: ‘It’s a sin’ [video]
‘Yes, I’ve always believed, Pierce, that scripture shows that it’s a sin. But...
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Obama to Say Open Gay Service “Starting This Year” at SOTU
In 2010, President Barack Obama took the opportunity to use the State of the Union to declare that he would “work with Congress and our...
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NGLTF’s Carey: Obama should “include our lives, our families in the same way he talks of the lives of others”
Following Monday’s lowered expectations from the Human Rights Campaign for President Barack Obama’s State of the Union adress tonight, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force...
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Former RNC Online Comm Director Teams Up With GOProud
She’s no Andrew Breitbart — a good thing to some — but Liz Mair is the former online communications director at the Republican National Committee...
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Maryland Gets Marriage Bill
A group of about 50 activists, couples and legislators stood together in the Joint Hearing Room of Maryland's Legislative Services Building in Annapolis this morning,...
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Jordan Says Conservative Caucus Will Push D.C. Marriage Ban; LCR, HRC Push Back
This morning, The Hill reported that the chairman of the influential conservative Republican Study Committee, which boasts 175 members, plans to introduce legislation “that would...
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Legacy of 'The Laramie Project' [video]
Few plays have taken root in the public consciousness — and served as the public conscience — as has ''The Laramie Project,'' Moises Kaufman and...
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A Modest Step, Some Sharp Complaints
In 2010, President Barack Obama took the opportunity to use the State of the Union to declare that he would ''work with Congress and our...
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Doritos’ gay Superbowl ads? Funny contest entries not considered finalists
”What’s funnier than a man making eyes at another man? What’s funnier than hapless homosexual males guessing that a straight guy is interested in them?...
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HRC’s Sainz Lowers Expectations for LGBT Americans at SOTU
On Friday, Jan. 21, Human Rights Campaign vice president Fred Sainz told The New York Times, “This past year Americans were confronted with the epidemic...
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Singer Tiffany confirms Jonathan Knight is gay: ‘New Kids’ star responds on Twitter [video]
”I did, yes, Jonathan Knight…. ‘the quiet one, the shy one.’ He became gay later. I didn’t do it. But he’s fabulous…. I had issues...
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RuPaul explains heart attack rumor: ‘Drag Race 3’ begins tonight [video]
”The best drag queens always come from the southeastern part of the country. I don’t know if it’s because of the Bible Belt, but there’s...
