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Anti-gay Assault
When Aram Vartian hugged his friend Tom Goss goodbye on Wednesday night and saw Goss drive away, he expected to just make the short walk...
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RA Xtra: Different from Whom?
Reel Affirmations presents the Italian film Different From Whom? as the first of five RA Xtra films this season. The farcical comedy focuses on a...
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Chely Wright at Rams Head On Stage
Chely Wright’s first area performance since she came out and energized this year’s Capital Pride — which happened right after she became the first major...
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Kate Clinton at the Birchmere
A professional — and always out — standup comedian for going on 30 years, Kate Clinton never seems to have a shortage of jokes about...
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Outspoken, Ep. 13: Will the lame duck congress repeal of DADT? [video]
In this week's Outspoken, host Ebone Bell asks whether or not people think the lame duck Congress will repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Visitors to...
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The First Report on the DADT Report
“A Pentagon study group has concluded that the military can lift the ban on gays serving openly in uniform with only minimal and isolated incidents...
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Government Asks Supreme Court to Keep DADT In Effect During Appeal
In a filing at the U.S. Supreme Court this afternoon, the U.S. government, represented by acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal, asked the court to leave...
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Wrestling with the Truth
Some people are very guarded when it comes to their personal space. Donna Rose is not one of them. Instead, she likes to hug. Her...
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No Time to Stop
There's a strange and unsettling mood floating around these days after the shellacking delivered to Democrats by Republicans in the midterm elections. It's not unexpected,...
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We Fight On
With all due respect to Log Cabin Republicans, who welcomed the new House majority last week, getting pro-gay legislation out of soon-to-be Speaker John Boehner...
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No Easy Pieces
Over the past weekend, the military leadership began weighing in on the post-election – and ever-narrowing – window for the repeal of ''Don't Ask, Don't...
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DOMA Taking More Hits
The Defense of Marriage Act faced a two-pronged attack on Nov. 9 as two separate organizations and sets of lawyers, representing different plaintiffs, filed lawsuits...
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Trans Remembrance
Thursday, Nov. 20, is the National Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day in which many pause to remember transgender victims of violence, intolerance and injustice....
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Smashing Success
When Martina Navratilova takes to the court next Monday, it won't be for glory or the record books. Instead, she'll be joining a host of...
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A Decade of History
There are times when something good comes from sheer frustration. That's the case with the Rainbow History Project, which came to being in 2000, founded...
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Helping Us Grow
In the two decades since Us Helping Us was founded to help improve the health of African-American gay men, the organization's scope has grown, says...
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Rock Solid
To quote the 1984 Deniece Williams song from the Footloose soundtrack, let's give the boy a hand, because James Franco's performance in 127 Hours is...
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Soul Stirring
Darius Nichols as Hud, photographed by Todd Franson in the Kennedy Center's Africa Room, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 Darius Nichols almost passed on auditioning for...
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Home on the Range
Arena Stage artistic director Molly Smith is hoping there's a little Ado Annie in all of us. Annie is, of course, the gal from the...
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Angels Heart
A production of Angels In America -- in the mountains of Virginia? ''There's always been a hesitation because the traditional audience is fairly conservative,'' says...
