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Singular Sensation
Five minutes into A Single Man, fashion designer Tom Ford's directorial debut, you realize you're seeing art. At first it seems to be that highly...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Is this a new beginning on old foundations? A reckoning for a bill you thought you'd already settled? A magical opportunity to receive...
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Monster Mashed
Grab your torches and sharpen your pitchforks -- a lumbering beast has been brought to life at the Kennedy Center and the sooner he's driven...
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Gaga Reflex
''I'm your biggest fan. I'll follow you until you love me,'' Lady Gaga sang on her hit, ''Paparazzi.'' ''I won't stop until that boy is...
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Gay newspapers’ troubles revealed in Chicago, Atlanta, DC, …
”The last two to three payrolls, we’ve been having issues from a cash-flow standpoint…. This is a rough week because it’s Christmas too. There’s the...
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Historical look at gay stereotypes in comic books and cartoon strips
”What could be more wholesome than Mickey Mouse, the big-eared emblem of the Disney empire? Yet a Mickey Mouse comic strip from January 22, 1931...
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Gay marriage legalized in Mexico City
”For centuries, unjust laws prohibited marriage between whites and blacks or Europeans and (indigenous) Indians. Today all those barriers have come down.” Victor Romo of...
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Halo becomes MOVA, thereby retaining its two vowels
You may recall that Hearsay mentioned the other day a local D.C. gay bar was rumored to be undergoing a name change. Well that news...
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First gay wedding featured by Martha Stewart magazine
”We’re humbled and honored to have been deemed ‘good thing’-y enough to grace this mass market mag’s pages. It’s one time you won’t hear us...
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Know Thy Adversary: Anti-gay conservative, Robert P George (Chairman of National Organization for Marriage), profiled by NY Times
”People have lost their grip on the true reasons for marrying, so they are unwilling to make all the sacrifices real marriage requires…. If I,...
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D.C. Attorney General Backs BOEE on Marriage
D.C.'s Office of the Attorney General filed a brief Friday, Dec. 18, responding to a lawsuit brought last month by Bishop Harry Jackson against the...
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Congressional Budget Office estimates “Domestic Partners” Act: 10 years = $898 million
H.R. 2517 would make same-sex domestic partners of certain federal employees (both current and retired) eligible to receive the same employment benefits as married spouses...
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Hillary Clinton: Persecution of gays in countries like Iran, Uganda are at top of Human Rights list
“Once rights are established, governments should be expected to resist the temptation to restrict freedom of expression when criticism arises, and to be vigilant in...
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Evangelical Lively claims innocence, cries “it’s racist” to insinuate he had influence over Uganda’s “kill the gays” bill
”I don’t have any special power to influence these people. They asked for my opinion, and I gave it. It’s pretty racist to suggest that...
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Here’s who’s open and closed tonight in the DC Gay Bar Scene
As evening nears, Hearsay has taken a few moments to find out which gay bars and clubs are open and which ones are closed on...
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Catholic Archdiocese of DC insinuates Jesus says “No” to gay marriage because its like incest & sex with animals
”It occurred to me to wonder what Jesus would say about the redefining of Marriage that is happening in this country of the last number...
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Tonight’s Bare Postponed Due to Snow
Snow, snow go away. Come again some other day. Well, it’s too late for that, in’a’nit? The white powder is wreaking havoc on our D.C....
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Professional Rubgy player, Gareth Thomas, comes out gay
“It is the toughest, most macho of male sports, and with that comes an image. In many ways, it is barbaric, and I could never...
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Fenty Signs D.C. Marriage Bill
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty joined about 200 people, including his parents and several prominent LGBT leaders and D.C. councilmembers, at All Souls Unitarian Church, Friday...
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Heat for a Hero
With a weekend snowstorm headed to the District -- a city not celebrated for its snow-worthiness -- many Washingtonians were likely preoccupied Friday, Dec. 18,...
