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Webb Noncommittal on DADT Repeal
Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) is the only area senator who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Webb, who served as secretary of the Navy...
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Help, with a Hitch
Keith Short would pass Central Union Mission at 14th and R Streets NW regularly. It was in the same neighborhood where he was tenuously living...
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The Final Push
The decision of whether gays and lesbians should serve openly in the military strikes at the core of the integrity of the military itself. The...
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Food, Friends and Testing
Update: This event has been postponed due to inclement weather.Food and Friends has been feeding people living with HIV/AIDS in the area for more than...
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Move at Metro
Marcel Acosta, a gay Washingtonian, has been appointed to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's (WMATA, aka Metro) board of directors. The board has equally...
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Shabbaton in the Capital
If the term is new to you, think of the Hebrew shabbaton as roughly a sabbatical or a retreat. It can mean different things to...
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''Raw Sex'' and Rev. Evans
There was no suspense at the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics (BOEE) hearing on Jan. 27, which concerned the proposed referendum on the recently...
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More than Words
We often complain that promises made to our community are ''just words,'' palliatives designed to make us feel that something is being done without any...
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Pigskin Fever
This Sunday, you can wear your football finest to your favorite video watering hole, be it Colts blue and white or Saints black and gold....
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Picture Yourself
You may recall the following scene from Sex and the City when it was still just a TV show. Samantha wants to capture her good...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: There's a price to be paid, and it's as inexorable as time, tide and taxes. Was it worth the tab you ran up...
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Siblings and Rivalries
When watching a play that includes Abraham Lincoln, the question begs to be asked: Is this a play about Lincoln the politician, or Lincoln the...
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Dark Disco
''I don't want to be ignored, oh god!'' Tom Smith cries at one point on Editors' new In This Light And On This Evening. With...
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True Spirit
''There are pieces of what being gay is about that aren't really being discussed,'' says singer-songwriter Matt Alber. ''Being gay, I see things in a...
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Hollywood Medley
They don't make film music like they used to. So says Bill Conti. ''It's very difficult as the years go by, how they make a...
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Just the Facts
WHAT: On Tuesday, Feb. 2, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced a ''high-level working group'' within the Department of Defense to review ''the issues associated...
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Tyra Banks interviews transgender Elementary School children [video]
”When I was a little baby, I always used to be a girl. But my mom and dad didn’t know that. So, I couldn’t talk...
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Colin Firth nominated for Oscar for playing gay in “A Single Man” [video]
”If you’re known as a straight guy, playing a gay role, you get rewarded for that. If you’re a gay man and you want to...
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Crawford's Calling
Michael Crawford, co-founder of DC for Marriage and chair of the organization during its fight for marriage equality in the District, is taking his work...
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Gay military ban to be repealed says President Obama; meanwhile 428 discharged in 2009 [video]
“Abroad, America’s greatest source of strength has always been our ideals. The same is true at home. We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing...
