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Florida Governor Charlie Crist seems confused: Can’t say he’s for or against gay adoption ban [video]
”It was the law on the books. I was the former Attorney General. I had a sworn duty –…. I didn’t say I liked it,...
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Tyler Clementi suicide confirmed: Freshman’s roommate accused of watching, broadcasting gay private life [video]
”jumping off the GW bridge sorry” The last Facebook post of Tyler Clementi, a violinist and Rutgers University freshman who committed suicide on September 22....
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Researcher claims only 7% of college campuses have gay-supportive resources
”A lot of this is now happening in cyberspace, which may lead to the possibility to them being outed and then harassed in some other...
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Gay-protesting Andrew Shirvell takes leave: Michigan’s AG changes mind about ‘free speech’ to target gay student
”Here in America, we have this thing called the First Amendment, which allows people to express what they think and engage in political and social...
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Education Sec’y on Teen Suicides: “Every one of us … needs to stand up and speak out”
Late Friday afternoon, a remarkably strong statement was put out by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan: “This week, we sadly lost two young men...
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Waiting for Superman at Landmark’s E Street Cinema
From the director of An Inconvenient Truth comes another film about America wasting a natural resource: the next generation. In Waiting for Superman, public schools...
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The Social Network
It’s so meta that The Social Network has a Facebook fan page. Aaron Sorkin adapts Ben Mezrich’s 2009 book, The Accidental Billionaires, about the founding...
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Terror Tween
Let Me In is not your average tween's vampire movie. There are no lingering shots of over-primped adolescents with rippling abs. No angst-filled scenes of...
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Victory Fund Leadership Awards [video]
On Wednesday evening, September 29, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was the honoree at the Victory Fund's 10th annual Gay & Lesbian Leadership Awards. After introductions...
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A Log Cabin Evening [video]
The Log Cabin Republicans held its national dinner on Sept. 22 at the Capitol Hill Club, where the group honored Sen. John Cornyn and Rep....
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Pink Flamingos at Landmark’s E Street Cinema
Through early November, Landmark’s E Street Cinema is hosting weekend midnight screenings of camp and cult classics, including, of course, Rocky Horror Picture Show —...
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Justin Nozuka at The State
Born in New York, bred in Canada, the 21-year-old, part-Japanese R&B singer-songwriter Justin Nozuka writes playfully complex lyrics atypical of the norm, and he turned...
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Beethoven’s No. 9 at the NSO
In his first concerts of the regular season, the NSO’s new director Christoph Eschenbach conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, one of classical music’s most-heralded compositions....
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The Saint Plays at Factory 449
John Moletress directs this Factory 449 production of The Saint Plays, which incorporates six short plays, including two written for this cycle, by Erick Ehn....
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Chess at Signature Theater
Signature Theatre kicks off its fall season off with the first major production Chess in nearly 20 years and, while some elements feel just a...
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UMD Symphony Orchestra: White Heat
White Heat features passionate pieces from Sibelius and Tchaikovsky. James Ross conducts the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra. Guest violinist James Stern. Tonight, Friday, Oct....
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Casiokids at DC9
DC9’s weekly electro-pop Liberation Dance Party presents the Norwegian troupe Casiokids Norwegian troupe, which sprung out of an idea of making electronic music more visual,...
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Pocket Operas at The In Series
The In Series’s “pocket opera” provocative double-bill of William Bolcom & Arnold Weinstein’s Casino Paridise and Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble In Tahiti provides an evening of...
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A Lasting Impression
President Barack Obama would like you to be impressed with his progress on repealing the military ban on open gay and lesbian servicemembers. ''Here, I've...
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Wonderful Wins
The fight for gay equality at home and on the battlefield won encouraging court victories last week. In a case brought by ACLU of Washington...
