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  • Upholding Texas Marriage Ban, Court Discounts Baker

    An interesting side-note to come from the Texas appellate ruling on August 31 denying a Texas gay couple the ability to get a divorce —...

  • Loni Love at the DC Improv

    A regular panelist on Chelsea Handler’s show on E! — and also red carpet correspondent for the channel’s post-Oscars party — Loni Love presents her...

  • Tony Savoie at the Long View Gallery

    Multi-media artist Tony Savoie’s distaste for war is front and center in much of his work, now on display at Long View. His pieces often...

  • Lone Star Slight

    Although it hasn't gotten the attention given to Ted Olson and David Boies's challenge to California's Proposition 8 or the Gay & Lesbian Advocates &...

  • An Unwelcome Addition

    In one of my all-time favorite movies, Magnolia, multiple characters reflect on the mistakes and miscues of their past with the saying, ''We may be...

  • Mending Mehlman

    When news broke last week that former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman had announced he is gay in an interview with Marc Ambinder in...

  • Feeling the Heat

    Sgt. Carlos Mejia of the Metropolitan Police Department's Special Liaison Unit (SLU), which includes the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU), spoke to a crowd...

  • June in Bloom

    In June Crenshaw's world, every minute matters. The 49-year-old lesbian from Tulsa, Okla., who has been living in the D.C. area since the mid-1980s, has...

  • Thrill Seekers

    Planet Snoopy will be closed next Saturday night, Sept. 11, during Brother Help Thyself's annual outing at Kings Dominion. '' is for the kids......

  • True Love

    ''I would have loved for my mom to have had a relationship with someone,'' says comedian Loni Love. Love was raised with her brother by...

  • The Lonely Guy

    The American. It's rather a bland title. But if you bring a star's name into it -- for example, ''George Clooney is…The American'' -- you...

  • Swedish Delight

    ''Somebody alert the authorities, I got criminal intent,'' Robyn raps on one hip hop-flavored track on her playfully sublime new EP, Body Talk Pt. 2....

  • Game Boys

    When unhindered by such things as a degree in history or political science or more than passing knowledge of the works of, well, any of...

  • Either/Orr

    Keenan Orr didn't choose to spin for straight events. You might say he was born to do it. ''Growing up in Northern Virginia, I didn't...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: You're bringing in the harvest of the current lunar cycle. Will you be eating your words? Putting up deep thoughts for the winter...

  • The Sound of Music at Wolf Trap

    Rodgers and Hammerstein's beloved Broadway musical celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with a week-long run at Wolf Trap's Filene Center. Mandy Bruno stars as...

  • Now in theaters: Eat Pray Love

    Recently divorced and desperate to break her pattern of serial relationships, Elizabeth Gilbert packs her belongings into storage and begins a year-long, three-country quest to...

  • Margaret Cho to appear on ”Dancing with the Stars” with surprising competitors

    ”I’m so excited to be doing Dancing With The Stars, but I’ve got a lot to learn. I’ve got some mean stripper moves and I...

  • Newspaper opens up to same-sex marriage notices after denied couple fights back on Facebook

    ”If a pig would have flown by me then, I couldn’t have been more surprised. I felt I was punched in the stomach. I hung...

  • Jane Lynch thanks wife as she wins Emmy [video]

    ”I love being an actor among actors. I love being part of an ensemble. I rarely identify as anything…. But I am an actor. And...