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LA Times thinks MoveOn, HRC, gay boycotters wrongheaded for expecting more of Target
”For MoveOn, the fight is at least as much about corporate money as it is about gay rights…. But by pointing out Target’s involvement in...
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“Family Readiness” is the New “Military Readiness”
Although news that the Pentagon was going to be surveying the spouses — opposite-sex only — of current members of the military regarding the “Don’t...
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Dueling Rallies
The good thing about dueling rallies is that, if you choose, you can focus on the one that uplifts you rather than the one that...
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Happy-Hour Hunt
When EFN Lounge/Motley Bar closed its doors Monday, Aug. 16, a Friday fixture – ''Bear Happy Hour'' – found itself homeless. But those bears, who...
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The Great Typo Hunt at Borders
In The Great Typo Hunt, Benjamin Herson and Jeff Deck humorously document their drive around the the U.S. fixing typos in public signage using markers,...
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Mary Chapin Carpenter at Wolf Trap
“Hometown Girl” Mary Chapin Carpenter returns to Wolf Trap (where she’s performed 16 times) for the first time in five years, and for the first...
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Shakespeare Theatre’s Free for All
The Shakespeare Theatre Company presents this year’s 20th annual “Free for All” production with 22 performances of Twelfth Night, more than double last year’s number....
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Erin McKeown at the Kennedy Center
The folk-pop singer-songwriter Erin McKeownreleased her last album, 2009’s Hundreds of Lions, on Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records label, and opened for DiFranco earlier this...
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In the Same Boat
The man I am going to marry, who is of mixed Burundian/Congolese descent, was the target of an attempted Muslim honor killing in April 2002....
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Young Boy Counters Bishop
Brian Brown, the National Organization for Marriage's president, took the stage of a rally scheduled for 2 p.m., on Sunday Aug. 13 with an announcement:...
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Nuptials Nixed
Despite hopes prompted by several LGBT organizations, news stories and various county clerks across the state of California, same-sex marriages did not begin in California...
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Remembering Local Loss
On Aug. 26, the one-year anniversary of the stabbing death of a transgender woman, Tyli'a ''NaNa Boo'' Mack, members of the local LGBT community plan...
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Rehoboth Arrests
The Rehoboth Beach, Del., Police Department announced last week that six men, including three juveniles, have been arrested in connection with a string of muggings...
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Life After Folk
''Could you tell me, like, where's a good place to go?'' -- Justin Taylor, Episode 1, Queer as Folk. Many of us first saw Randy...
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Candy Land
The Green Lantern bills itself as a place ''where the men play.'' But on Saturday, Aug. 21, the boys will be there too, lured by...
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Qomedy's Queen
Fifteen years ago, Carol Leifer wrote an episode of Seinfeld in which the character Elaine Benes tries to get a gay man to ''change teams.''...
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Comedy for a Cause
''I had gotten into a big argument with one of the local ANCs about gay marriage, religion and politics,'' says Sampson McCormick. ''And then I...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Like ships passing in the night – really big ships – the gas giants of the zodiac are making waves as they track...
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EFN's End (Updated)
The EFN Lounge/Motley Bar, at 1318 9th St. NW, has closed its doors permanently. On Monday, Aug. 17, at 8:40 p.m., in an e-mail addressed...
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Parents of murdered soldier, Barry Winchell, ask for DADT policy to be repealed
”Barry’s death was — and remains — a heart-wrenching tragedy for us. In the days and months afterward, we were comforted by the hundreds of...
