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Akasha stands up for geeks and nerds on Maury
Maybe you missed her on America’s Got Talent as part of The Diva League’s “Disturbia” drama. If so, local drag diva Akasha “You are not...
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Bob King begs Congress: Ignore our home rule, help keep marriage from DC’s gays [video]
”I’m doing this because the city council and the mayor have given me no choice…. Marion Barry and Yvette Alexander. We have a number of...
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Opposing Viewpoints
Assistant Police Chief Diane Groomes of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) wants the local LGBT community to meet 35 officers, whom she claims are now...
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Punch-Line Politics
Two transgender rabbis walk into a bar.... Wait, scratch that. Riki Wilchins, among the most prominent voices in America's gender-identity discourse, has taken a new...
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Calling Contractors
Some people know how to rally a crowd, recruit volunteers or throw a fundraiser. A select few may have less obvious talents, including those rarely...
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Rallying for Marriage
The Campaign for All DC Families and a coalition of other organizations, including D.C. Clergy United for Marriage Equality and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC),...
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Clinic Community
The Whitman-Walker Clinic is seeking applicants for its newly announced Community Advisory Group, slated to meet for the first time in March 2010. ''We want...
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Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington
I love to sing, but I'm no Susan Boyle. And until recently, I thought the shower was the only suitable place for my inner-diva. I...
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Musical Stocking Stuffers
''You better watch out, you better not cry. You better not pout, I'm telling you why: Santa Claus is swinging in town.'' Yep, it's that...
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Holiday Tunes
Ever seen a clarinet player with raindeer ears? You just might at the D.C. Different Drummers' holiday concert this Saturday, Dec. 12. ''The tradition is...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You've been hit from your blind spot so often you're feeling punch drunk. And the Universe isn't finished with you yet. The good...
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Playing the Heartstrings
There's nothing better than an uplifting movie to please the masses that's released just in time for the holidays. And if it involves sports, score!...
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Stringing Along
''It's hard to make a mandolin sound sad. You can play it in a minor key, but it's got a sprightly tone,'' says Catie...
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Lambda's Last Call
When he opened Lambda Rising bookstore in 1974, Deacon Maccubbin started with $3,000 of his own money and $1,000 he borrowed from Craig Howell of...
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New Jersey Senate Panel Sends Marriage Bill to the Floor
The New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee handed proponents of marriage equality an important first-round victory last night, Dec. 7, approving a bill that could make...
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NJ Senate moves to vote on gay marriage bill [video]
On a narrow, 7 to 6 vote, a New Jersey state Senate committee opted to move ”The Freedom of Religion and Equality of Civil Marriage...
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Later-life lesbians
”It’s extremely common… The standard narrative that folks are used to hearing — if you have same-sex attraction, you got it when you were 9...
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The “Amazing” Gays: Brothers Sam and Dan McMillen almost win the $1 million reality TV prize [video]
”It means a lot for us to be here and represent the gay community. And say to people, ‘We are all the same, we’re all...
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Portia de Rossi tells “The View” about marriage, coming out lesbian in Hollywood [video]
”I think that you have to be married to know how different it is than just being together with someone…. It feels like a very...
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“Bruno” Backfire? Gay converting preacher turns movie mockery into run for Mayor
”It’s turned into a treÂÂÂmendous plus. I was able to share my mesÂÂÂsage. I used it as a platform. It turned into a tremenÂÂÂdously positive...
