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Turn Back Time
It's true. If you hang around Washington long enough you'll get to see history repeat itself. Back in the early 1990s, the LGBT community started...
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Modern Mirage
Maybe you went to a bittersweet party to watch the final episode of HBO's Sex and the City. Did you hit the theater eagerly the...
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Going Greek
''Every time I go back to Greece, I miss home here,'' says Yiannis Elia, who moved to D.C. from his native Athens some 12 years...
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Tapped Out
Always remove one item before leaving the house. This was the advice of the godmother of the little black dress Coco Chanel. Do the hair....
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Jewish Ham
Harvey Fierstein in Fiddler on the Roof? At first, you may hope he's playing the matriarch Golde in drag. Or better, a drag Yente, the...
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Gay Wedding Singers
Some singers were just made for each other. Take ''baritenors'' Jon Arterton and James Mack. ''We're told that when we sing in unison our voices...
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King Sized
Did you hear the one about Kaki King collaborating with Miley Cyrus? ''That would be hilarious,'' laughs King. ''I mean, of all people.'' In fact,...
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Death Match
Can a British black comedy about a family successfully translate to an American comedy about a black family? Bloody hell, yeah! In 2007, the Frank...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You're sluggish and out of sorts. You're wondering why the weather (inside and out) can't make up its mind and just be. You're...
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Queer on Campus
It was not so long ago that a gay-friendly campus was one harboring a frat house that would allow a guy with an earring. Today,...
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University of Maryland: Terrapins Meet ''Golden Girls''
GETTING INVOLVED with your university's LGBT group is ''just one of those things you do when you get in college,'' says Natalia Cuadra-Saez. The 20-year-old...
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University of the District of Columbia: Community for Commuters
IT ISN'T LIKE most universities in the area, The University of the District of Columbia -- within the District, it is the only public institution...
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Howard University: Acronyms Full of Equality
IN OCTOBER 2008, BLAGOSAH celebrated not only the group's eight-year anniversary, but a resurgence after a few years of a sort of slumber. What was...
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Georgetown University: Pride and Jesuits
THERE'S RARELY AN upside to a hate crime, though Georgetown University may be that rare exception. In the fall of 2007, a season in which...
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George Washington University: Showing Pride On Campus and Off
WHEN MARRIAGE EQUALITY hit the District on March 3, George Washington University was at the forefront. Among the first same-sex couples to wed at D.C....
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George Mason University: Chalk It Up to Pride
WHEN VIRGINIA ATTORNEY General Ken Cuccinelli showed up at George Mason University's law school in Arlington last month for a speech, about 50 students and...
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Gallaudet University: Signs of Pride
EARLIER THIS MONTH, Gallaudet University made headlines when news spread that the D.C. college for the deaf was planning a production of Terrence McNally's Corpus...
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Catholic University of America: Righteous Awakening
DON'T LOOK FOR an LGBT-student resource center on the Catholic University of America campus in Northeast D.C. And don't look for any official student group...
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American University: Nirvana Off Nebraska
AT THE INTERSECTION of Massachusetts and Nebraska Avenues, in the far northwest reaches of the District, sits a campus hard to beat when it comes...
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Mistrial in Memphis: Lone juror won’t convict police officer in case of brutality against transgender woman [video]
Five witnesses testified the attack was unprovoked. Enough to convince all but one juror McRae was guilty of violating Johnson’s civil rights. “Talking about taking...
