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  • 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...

  • Anti-gay marriage Senator John McCain reminds America that he’s the elected one in the family

    ”Senator McCain respects the views of members of his family. The Senator strongly supported the effort to successfully pass Arizona Proposition 102, the Marriage Protection...