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DC Front Runners
If you're like me, you can't spend more than three or four minutes on a treadmill before becoming bored out of your mind. While there's...
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Strange Fruit
The recent suicides by hanging of two 11-year-old boys in response to anti-gay bullying -- Carl Walker-Hoover in Massachusetts on April 6 and Jaheem Herrera...
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Rock On
Tom Stoppard junkies may scoff, but any discussion of Studio's Rock 'N' Roll must begin with the caveat that the uninitiated may wish to either...
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Great Escape
Ragtime is one of those musicals. It's big. It's opulent. It's filled with infectious songs that will remain firmly in your head for days after...
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Happy Hours
''I had never bartended before in my life,'' says Eduardo Sevilla Jr. of the time five years ago when he went from being a regular...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: If discontent were divine, we'd all die of ecstasy. But that's not the likeliest scenario. There's an itch, emanating from the cosmos, that...
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In Electric Company
It's not easy for most, stripping down to your birthday suit with a group of strangers. ''It was very uncomfortable for about 10 minutes,'' says...
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Closet Cases
Where's the rage in Outrage? Director Kirby Dick, who last covered the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system in This Film Is Not Yet...
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Puppet Master
Until just a few years ago, Joe Goode considered himself a ''puppetphobe.'' ''Puppets seemed like children's theater,'' says the innovative choreographer. ''The cuteness factor was...
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Sun Day
Click for 165 pics from the 2009 Youth Pride Day in DC There was something for everyone at Youth Pride Day at P Street Beach...
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Gay and Gone
It would be hard to argue that Clark Ray, the highest-ranking openly gay member of Mayor Adrian Fenty's administration and its only department head, was...
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No gays in Star Wars?
”As I have stated before, these are terms that do not exist in Star Wars. Thread closed.” SeanDahlberg, a Community Manager for the Bioware gaming...
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Marion Barry: I’m a moral politician… No gay marriage in DC! [video]
(Metro Weekly has published a more detailed update to this event. — 4/29/09 2:10am) ”You are the moral leaders of this community. Politicians out to...
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Rallying Against Equality
''There are a lot of issues that we agree on, there are some that we don't agree on, but...we have to say no to same-sex...
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CraigList murder suspect may have also met gay or transsexual dates for sex [video]
”He seemed like a great guy; he’s very cute. I was really taken by his looks.” An anonymous Boston male and apparent transsexual speaking on...
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Iowa begins legal marriages of lesbian and gay male couples
”By the power vested in the state of Iowa and God, I now declare you legally married…. What an honor. Amen!” Peg Esperanza, pastor of...
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Bishop Harry Jackson: All of black DC is against gay marriage
”It’s a race and a class struggle on this. If 51 percent of the people in D.C. are African-American and you have a unanimous vote...
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Perez Hilton: I’m an activist. Read me! [video]
””And I don’t care if you don’t like me — I just care if you still read my Web site…. I said she was a...
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Another 11-year-old boy hangs himself after bullying with gay taunts
”She said, ‘Ma, did you know they called Jaheem gay again today in school?’ …. He said, ‘Yes ma’am. He told me that he’s tired...
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Connecticut passes gay marriage legislation; Governor signs it into law
”We wanted to make it completely clear that the state of Connecticut fully embraces not only the rights of same-sex couples to marry, but we...
