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  • Ted Haggard’s wife missed lies, hypocrisy before; but plugs new book anyway, claiming gay “problem” is “solved”

    ”At that point, I was ignorant of the gravity. I felt as though we all struggle in different areas of our life, and certainly in...

  • Utah Congressman Takes Aim at D.C.

    The ranking Republican member of the House Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia filed legislation on Tuesday, Jan. 26, disapproving...

  • John McCain defends DADT following State of the Union

    “In his State of the Union address, President Obama asked Congress to repeal the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy. I am immensely proud of, and...

  • Devil in the Details

    SAN FRANCISCO -- There is nothing like turning an opponent's own words against him to both rile his emotions and destroy his position, and that...

  • A Nation's Priorities

    Noting that one in 10 Americans are without work and that millions will lose their health insurance this year, President Barack Obama gave his first...

  • A Higher Education

    Citing “relentless harassment and discrimination” and “life-threatening violence” faced by students “based on their sexual orientation,” U.S. Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) today introduced the Student...

  • Lots of Argument, No Proof

    SAN FRANCISCO – In the waning hours of the historic trial challenging the constitutionality of a state ban on same-sex marriage, the federal courtroom in...

  • 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...