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  • Neighborhood Investment

    This year Brother Help Thyself (BHT) is giving more than $120,000 to 27 different organizations -- but its annual Grants Award Reception, originally scheduled for...

  • Voices of Experience

    From Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) to moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), many substantial questions raised at last week's hearing regarding...

  • Push for Parity

    The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus last week made a fresh push for immigration equality in a letter to five national leaders. In the Feb. 2...

  • Mighty Real

    Being a product of the ''Real America'' — that halcyon collection of rural farmlands and evangelical hotbeds that see themselves as the authentic bedrock of...

  • Moving Forward

    On Aug. 28, 2008, I listened to Sen. Barack Obama outline his soaring vision for America. I felt like he was speaking directly to me...

  • Never-Ending Need

    At 40, sharing a birthday with the Stonewall riots, I've lived through plenty of changes for LGBT Americans. After about 10 or so, I even...

  • Tegan & Sara

    Tegan and Sara Quin actually look like twins on the cover of Sainthood. ''For years we rejected this twin image, people always trying to twin...

  • Download These

    ''Superstar'' (2000) From the album: This Business of ArtThis was one of the Quin twin's first songs, and to this day the club banger isn't...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: Spend the weekend tying up the loose ends and severing the dead connections. Use your time wisely and productively to clear the way....

  • Sticky and Sweet

    The only thing sweeter than a box full chocolates on Valentine's Day is a box made of chocolate. Available for $38 -- or in a...

  • Pyramidic Victory

    If rumors of Synetic Theater's Euro-Slavic techno scores, not-so-classical dancing, and penchant for interpreting Shakespeare minus the spoken word have repelled rather than attracted you,...

  • Slay Ride

    Depending on where you were when the first flakes began to fall you may find the timing of Folger Theatre's newest production, playwright Anne Washburn's...

  • Love Lies Bleeding

    Cupid! Hey, Cupid! Come over here and shoot me. Right through my eye, please, because it would be less painful than having to watch Garry...

  • Fresh Perspective

    It's commonly known that acclaimed 20th century American artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was married to photographer Alfred Stieglitz during the early rise of her career...

  • Changes at GLOV

    Todd Metrokin and Chris Farris became the faces of Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV) in the fall of 2008 when they re-launched an organization...

  • Voices of Experience

    From Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) to moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), many substantial questions raised at last week's hearing regarding...

  • More Snow, More Need

    While an emergency call for volunteers Tuesday meant that none of the 1,400 ill clients served by Food and Friends went hungry despite the poor...

  • NJ gay group, Garden State Equality, halts contributions to political parties

    ”No political party has a record good enough on LGBT civil rights that it can rightfully claim to be entitled to our money on a...

  • Will it matter if the judge is gay? Proposition 8 court case judge’s personal life comes into focus

    ”There is nothing about Walker as a judge to indicate that his sexual orientation, other than being an interesting factor, will in any way bias...

  • Tracy Morgan’s uneven comedy not so funny with the gays

    ”The tone of the night took a noticeable turn when Morgan asked for the gay men in the audience to cheer. He explained that...