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  • Lights Up

    The American musical wasn't born overnight. Like any art form, it came to be in fits and starts. Even today, some audience members -- and...

  • Send in the Clowns

    For those of us who avoid the antics of clowns at all costs, 95 minutes in their company might sound like torture. In fact, we'd...

  • Short Rounds

    Composer Ricky Ian Gordon's brief relationship with the late Jeffrey Grossi in the mid-'90s provided, if not a lifetime, then at least a few years'...

  • Deja View

    Source Code is a cross between 24 and Groundhog Day and Moon and The Matrix and The Adjustment Bureau and Avatar and Quantum Leap and...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: Is it time to separate? Time to dissolve the bonds of union and get on with individuation? Time to go into yourself and...

  • Outspoken, Ep. 27 – Briefs or Nada? [video]

    In this edition of Outspoken, Ebone Bell attends the Team DC Fashion Show and Model Search at Town to pose the question, which do you...

  • Institutes of Medicine Releases LGBT Health Report

    Today, a report on LGBT health called “groundbreaking” has been released by the Institutes of Medicine, “The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People:...

  • Coverboy: John Sextoin

    John began life as a flesh-colored block of polychloroprene on the factory floor of Baker Plastics Inc. While his brother Pop went off to find...

  • Cherry Blast!

    ''I'm really glad Cherry stepped out and got Oscar G, somebody a little bit different as far as the gay circuit goes,'' says Alyson Calagna....

  • Cherry Weekend 2011

    Thursday, March 31 PRE-GAMENellie's900 U St. NW6:30pm-9:30pmPass Pickup and Ticket SalesDJ Nick Centrik PurcellTickets and VIP Host Pass on saleAppetizers and giveawaysNo Cover IGNITION Cobalt1639...

  • Hope Roller Coaster

    Generally, I look for proof of the imminence of April Fools' Day in friendly pranks at the office, goofy headlines and news parodies. That's where...

  • One for the Goddess

    The death of a screen goddess is bound to attract a circus-like atmosphere in addition to the normal obituaries and video tributes. Following the news...

  • Facing the Facts

    In my line of work, I regularly hear stories of how LGBT people have been treated in the health care system. Many are tales of...

  • A Game Plan for ENDA

    Representatives Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) recently introduced the bipartisan and fully inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). But let's be honest. ENDA is...

  • Hell, No. Love, Yes.

    On Sunday, April 3, at All Souls Church, Unitarian, City of Refuge-DC will celebrate its fourth anniversary. On the face of things, this doesn't seem...

  • Maryland Gender Identity Bill Sponsor Says of Senate President: “He Refused to See Me”

    The lead sponsor of legislation that seeks to prohibit discrimination against transgender Marylanders in the areas of housing, employment, and some commercial leasing is still...

  • Montana hangs onto unconstitutional law that bans gay sex

    ”Keeping an unenforceable law on the books that has been struck down as unconstitutional simply doesn’t make sense. Like the bipartisan majority in the Senate,...

  • Immigration Official: “The Hold Is Over”

    The “hold” on same-sex married bi-national couples’ green card applications — celebrated by immigration and LGBT advocates — is over, according to the spokesman for...

  • Mahatma Gandhi was bisexual? [video]

    A new biography about Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi called ‘Great Soul’ allegedly contains the claim that the famous peace activist had a significant man crush on...

  • Opening Night: Ford’s Liberty Smith

    Ford’s Theatre presents Liberty Smith, the world premiere of a madcap musical romp through Revolutionary America, with music by Michael Weiner, lyrics by Adam Abraham...