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Disconnect Effect
Relaxing on the beach in Rehoboth earlier this month, Ben Thompson scooped up all of his things in a flash as an unexpectedly strong wave...
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Pulp
You’ll always find a fun mood inside Pulp. The shop's founder Ron Henderson, who died in February, left a legacy of levity. ''He always showed...
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Money vs. wishful thinking: Frowned-upon efforts to quickly overturn anti-gay Proposition 8 run into reality
”In conversations with a number of my fellow major No on 8 donors. I find that they share my sentiment: namely, that we will step...
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Lions Club’s ”Catfish Derby” catches flack for denying lesbians a ‘couple’s discount’
”I wasn’t making any statement against lesbians, I’ll tell you that right now. I have nothing against them at all. I was just trying to...
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New DC law extends parental rights to consenting lesbians in cases of artificial insemination
”The new law, which took effect on July 18, 2009, provides that when a woman bears a child conceived by artificial insemination, and her spouse...
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Who’s Bryce Faulkner? 23-year-old student sent to Ex-Gay Camp: His boyfriend, parents squabble publicly [video]
”He’s fine. All the stories you’ve been told are not true…. Bryce] got caught up with friends who were pulling him that way. He just...
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Mexican-American Judge Carlos Moreno still proud of Proposition 8
”Someday at some point my dissent will be the majority view in California. I think that’s where the law is headed. Equal protection is either...
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Walter Cronkite “zapped” into becoming friend of gays recalls PGN news publisher
”He was the kind of man who believed in human rights for everyone. I am amazed and humbled by his willingness to reach out to...
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Hearsay will take a six pack with that Taylor Lautner, please
Hearsay didn’t care much for Twilight — what a yawner — but it thinks it might just enjoy the second film in the series, New...
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Duplex Diner and Halo make it an anniversary weekend
It seems like just last year Hearsay wished a happy anniversary to Eric "Leaving Logic and Reason" Hirshfield and his 18th & U Duplex Diner....
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House Speaker Pelosi appoints gay Representative Jared Polis to supervisory board of Air Force Academy
”We’re all reading the tea leaves here. I’m not saying ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is going away. We can’t say that. But this is a...
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E. Lynn Harris, famed gay, African-American author, dies at 54
Publicist Laura Gilmore said Harris died Thursday night after being stricken at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, and a cause of death had not...
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Big Gay Ice Cream Truck meets the welcoming streets of NYC [video]
”I started thinking, kind of happily about the suspect nature of a middle-aged, white, gay man driving an ice cream truck and the fact that...
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DC-area American Apparel stores vandalized, threatened for displaying pro-gay marriage t-shirt
”We took down the mannequin for 5 seconds to move it, and move it back to this window. But we will not take down this...
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Gay male beauty pageant ends with trophy being used as weapon against judge from Baltimore
”Apparently, I must have voted for the wrong person.” Sebastian Latta of Baltimore, MD, who had his jaw broken in three places after he was...
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”How Hetero” Twitter test garners attention, criticism
Screenshot of how our Twitter.com/metroweekly feed scored a super low 1% on the Stockholm Pride site that is measuring “How Hetero” people are through keywords...
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Show us your amateur secret
If you're thinking about going to Secrets tonight, July 22, Cliff "Show Me" Witt has advice. "You don't need to bring a lot of clothes,"...
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Pulling Together
In politics, as in life, we have to seize our moments. The current political moment belongs to Barack Obama and the Democrats. Obama’s polling numbers...
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DC Coalition Stirring
When it comes to cities known for vibrant, black-GLBT communities, D.C. routinely sits in the upper tier. DC Black Pride, for example, is the world's...
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Honoring Deschaine
With the tragic death of Desi Deschaine, 29, who apparently drowned in Baltimore's Inner Harbor after a day of boating July 12, friends were tasked...
