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Life Before Wartime
''Berliner Kabarett is like a musical quilt,'' says the show's director Christopher Gallu. ''It's got all these songs that were never intended to be put...
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Brian Watson
During his elementary school years, you wouldn't find Brian Watson on the busy playground with the other kids during recess. Instead he preferred to stay...
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José Ramirez
Growing up as a teenager in Durham, N.C., was not easy for José Ramirez. He remembers the embarrassment of the school bus arriving some mornings,...
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Linh Hoang
There is very little to Linh Hoang that is not on the move. Emigrating from Vietnam at age 10, that flight across the Pacific to...
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Eboné Bell
Last December, Eboné Bell quit her day job as the advertising manager at the Chronicle of Higher Education. She wanted to focus full time on...
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The 2009 Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards
2009 Next Generation Awardees: (clockwise from left) Hoang, Watson, Ramirez, Bell The story of our community is a story of generations. The generation that formed...
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University of Virginia anti-gay hate crime: 5 young men assault 2 others [video]
”Based upon the facts as we currently know them, we believe this to be a bias-motivated crime, in that the perceived sexual orientation of the...
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Hey, Big Bidder
While a load of Republicans may have left town with the political reversal of fortune, plenty are headed to D.C. this weekend, April 16 to...
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Do You Want to Be a Supermodel?
The following just came across Hearsay’s transom, also known as an iPhone. Hearsay, being in a sharing mood, thought it would share the request with...
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National boycott of Jamaica due to rampant violence against gays set to launch in NYC
”If you love your gay friends and family members, you won’t visit Jamaica. If you care about the human rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and...
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Lindsay Lohan pokes fun at herself with mock eHarmony profile [video]
”I’m recently single … I think.” Actress Lindsay Lohan appearing on FunnyOrDie in an eHarmony-style personal profile. She mentions many of the infamous things she’s...
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Maryland votes to remove ‘gay tax’ on property; sidesteps transgender issue
The Associated Press is reporting that Maryland the legislature has passed a revision to existing inheritance laws that benefits same-sex couples. The bill still needs...
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Beltsville, MD preacher calls for national fight against DC Council’s pro-gay marriage vote [video]
”There was only one item on the agenda that had to do with gay rights according to the printed agenda. For this reason, I was...
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Social work indeed: Gay dean, black professor squabble at OSU
”In effect, it’s going to take a seven-figure settlement to get me to drop this case. I will likely retire immediately, leave Ohio State and...
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Gay conservatives launching 2nd group: GOProud
“If you pulled the lever for John McCain in 2008, then passing hate-crimes legislation or ENDA is probably not your priority. Most...
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11-year-old buried today after gay taunts drive him to take his own life
”They were always saying, ‘you’re gay, you must be gay, you act like a girl.” Sirdeaner Walker, mother of Carl J. Walker-Hoover, an 11-year-old 6th-grader...
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Texas Christian University reneges on deal to create gay student housing
“TCU will not launch any new living learning communities at this time. Instead we will assess whether the concept of housing residential students based on...
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Gay elephant riles Polish politician
”We didn’t pay 37 million zlotys ($11 million) for the largest elephant house in Europe to have a gay elephant live there.” Polish politician Michal...
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Amazon stops ranking gay books: Glitch or bias?
”There was a glitch with our sales rank feature that is in the process of being fixed. We’re working to...
