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Oprah features transgender lesbian filmmaker Kim Reed [video]
”I was this perfect guy in some ways, but I was just trying to overcompensate to be successful at this male thing… I thought it...
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A Judicial Outing?
The judge hearing a trial over whether Proposition 8 in California is constitutional ''is himself gay,'' according to a column that ran in this past...
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Designer Alexander McQueen found dead; Takes own life after mother dies [video]
”On behalf of Lee McQueen’s family, Alexander McQueen today announces the tragic news that Lee McQueen, the founder and designer of the Alexander McQueen brand...
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Street-Level Soiree
Things have changed for The Center, the area's LGBT community center, since moving to its new location at 1810 14th St. NW at the beginning...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
