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Heavenly Round-Up: It's going to be a humdinger of an informational experience. And the emotional component won't be easily shoved aside. How will you keep...
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DC Radical Faeries
If it weren't for the burning incense and the shrine built to honor the Roman goddess Juno (for whom the month of June is named),...
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Bod Jobs
The season is upon us. Maybe you haven't made it to Rehoboth or some similarly gay, sunshiny holiday spot just yet this year, but that...
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Nickles Says No
D.C. Attorney General Peter J. Nickles issued an opinion today, June 11, advising the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics to reject a proposed referendum...
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Creigh Deeds: Virginia’s Democrats choose flip-flopper on gay marriage rights
”Marriage to me is between a man and a woman. I voted for the constitutional amendment in 2005 and 2006. I voted for that issue...
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Finally: Adam Lambert comes out for Rolling Stone mag
””I don’t think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I’m gay… I’m proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It’s just...
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Supreme Court rejects request to hear gay soldiers’ case against Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
”I think this decision is an absolute travesty of justice and I think every judge on this court should be ashamed of themselves…. The Supreme...
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Frank Kameny, 84, to be honored at D.C. Pride
“To the government and lawyers we were criminals. To the religious people we were sinners. To the psychiatrists we were sick,” he said. “There was...
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AIDS Quilt founder, Cleve Jones: New Gay March On Washington this October 11 [video]
”It is time to march again. Time to end this state-by-state, county-by-county, city-by-city struggle for equality and rip apart the patchwork of inequality that it...
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The Righteous Riots
There was a time when the phrase ''Stonewall'' was more likely to conjure images of the Civil War than of Greenwich Village. Then again, perhaps...
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Here's Valerie!
''I feel like there's momentum now, finally in the country, toward sanity,'' says Valerie Harper. The veteran actress, this year's Capital Pride Celebrity Grand Marshall,...
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Kickin' It with Cowboys
The DC Cowboys have been hot in Washington since forming in 1994, long before they appeared on the third season of America's Got Talent in...
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Queer as Folk Rock
Folk-rocker Melissa Ferrick is enthusiastic about the prospects of gay marriage. ''I think it's awesome that it passed in Iowa, and it's great that it...
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Labor of Love
Capital Pride is all about the volunteers. Top to bottom, inside and out, the largest annual festival in the nation's capital -- along with the...
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Everybody Dance Now
Martha Wash credits much of her lingering gay popularity to Sylvester, the flamboyant gay disco legend. ''You've got the fans who are, say, chronologically advancing...
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Pride's Supermodel
''You know, when the blistering draught scorches the earth's surface, it has to cover itself with clouds to do a repair job. And that's what...
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A New Beginning
When Whitman-Walker Clinic announced that it was ending it stewardship of the annual Capital Pride celebration and announced its search for a new host organization,...
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The Big Show
There's something for everyone at the 34th Annual Capital Pride, from nearly 100 contingents marching in the Parade, to a Festival stage featuring lesbian rocker...
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Letter from Michael Lutz
Greetings! On behalf of the Board of Directors of Capital Pride, I welcome you to the 34th Annual Capital Pride Celebration. Our theme, ''Generations of...
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Letter from Dyana Mason
Welcome to Capital Pride 2009! On behalf of the entire staff, board, and volunteers of Capital Pride it with great pleasure that I welcome you...
