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  • Mean-Streets Memories

    Vicki Wagner and Justin Reed Early met in another lifetime. It was 30 years ago in Seattle that she was working as an outreach coordinator...

  • GLOV Rain Check

    Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence's (GLOV) planned open-house forum to air LGBT community concerns about the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), slated for Feb. 3, has...

  • No More Delays

    Back in the mid-1980s, with the Cold War still peaking and the idea of the fall of the Soviet Union no more than a utopian...

  • Ally Beats Enemy

    It's been a year – just a year, mind you – that Barack Obama has served as 44th president of the U.S. He's the first...

  • The Time Is Now

    For 17 years, the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' (DADT) law has been a major barrier on the road to equality for the 65,000 gay and...

  • Dollars & Sense

    Mark Guenther knows exactly what he would like to convey to strangers: ''First off, I'm a nice guy.'' Considering his disarming smile and ready handshake,...

  • Raw Bar

    Shea van Horn is giving it to us raw. “Basically what we’re trying to recreate is the dance scene in Cruising,” says...

  • Divine Miss M

    On a visit to the charmingly scrappy MetroStage in Alexandria right now, you might not find God, but you will find the next best thing....

  • Writers' Block

    The advantage to spending some portion of every day scanning blogs and Twitter feeds is that, sometimes, you stumble upon a question you've never previously...

  • The Director's Wife

    When tasked with directing Signature Theatre's I Am My Own Wife, Alan Paul literally threw out the script. ''I wanted to free myself completely from...

  • Di$po$able Pop

    If you have an ''s'' in your name, have you ever thought to replace it with a dollar sign? And really, why stop there? You...

  • Magnetic Mystery

    ''The last time I looked at my Wikipedia entry, it said that I was born in 1966, I'm Canadian, and I'm a Buddhist,'' says Stephin...

  • Flashdance

    Piers Morgan of America's Got Talent has become an unlikely inspiration for female impersonator Shi-Queeta-Lee. ''A bunch of lip-synching old drag queens who can't dance...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: There's a lot of heavy lifting still to do, but before that you'll want to get past the thinking-things-through portion of your karma....

  • Murder motive: Rent. NYC man found stabbed at home; Gay lover nabbed in Vermont

    ”A few days turned into a few weeks. A few weeks turned into a month. A month turned into two…. This weekend is when John...

  • Stories of Uganda

    Saying that ''the bill has increased fear among all of us --especially sexual minorities -- and among everyone who believes in respect for diversity in...

  • Power Outage

    SAN FRANCISCO – Defenders of Proposition 8, the 2008 initiative that amended California's constitution to ban same-sex marriage, began their effort Monday to defend the...

  • Prop 8 Supporters to Make Their Case

    SAN FRANCISCO – Today begins Day 10, Week 3 of the federal trial challenging the constitutionality of California's ban on same-sex marriages, Proposition 8. The...

  • Loudoun Co., VA Supervisor Delgaudio blasted for public, anti-transgender remarks [video]

    ”Regardless of how one may feel about the policy in question, there is no excuse for referring to other human beings as ‘it.”’ Jim Burton,...

  • Mid-Atlantic Adventures in Leather…

    Hello? Hello? Anybody out there? Not even a maid? Finally!!! Hearsay thought it would never get out of that sling! There Hearsay was, holed up...