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Religious Overload
When I was 7, my family was in Ireland during the St. Patrick's Day weekend. We went to Blarney Castle and I ate my first...
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Cut Without Cash
On Dec. 16, Whitman-Walker Clinic, founded in 1973 as a gay men's STD clinic and today serving a diverse population of clients while maintaining GLBT...
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Growing Grassroots
Paquita Wiggins Paquita Wiggins feeds off of adversity. Even before the 31-year-old Chicago native came out as a lesbian, she was advocating for gay equality...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You want to be good, but you're dreading the dreary and grim circumstances that wreath appropriate behavior patterns. Resolve to be firm in...
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Time and a Bottle
What's that saying about playing the champagne flute and swallowing the bubbles- Regardless, with New Year's Eve upon us, it's time for some bubbly. Whether...
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Stage: The Best of 2008
I wasn't sure that I'd be able to come up with a list for best shows of 2008. I'm not going to get all dramatic...
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The Year in Music
The year 2008 was a good one for recorded pop music, though not as great as it could or should have been, and most of...
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Vanquishing Vulnerabilities
A birthday is a good time to stop and take stock of one's situation. How's the body- The career- The relationships- And so on. Thinking...
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The Best and Worst Films of 2008
When the credits started to roll, did you jump to your feet and applaud or storm the box office and demand your money back- In...
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2009: Year in Preview
All dates are subject to change at each organizer's discretion. For more detailed information as events approach, check Metro Weekly's ''Community Calendar,'' your complete guide...
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Mayor Sets Meeting
The recently re-formed Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV) is ending a seemingly violent 2008 with a commitment from Mayor Adrian Fenty to meet with...
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It’s New Year’s — Get Out There and Celebrate!
You can ring in the New Year at any bar in town, but if you have champagne dreams, you wanna go where the party is....
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Playstation’s beautiful new ‘Home’ filters out ‘gay,’ ‘lesbian,’ ‘bisexual’
”I can understand if they’re filtering out profanity, but if feel like it’s discrimination. By blocking a word like ‘gay,’ which is a preferred term...
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Be Bar’s Latin Fire
D.C.’s main gay Latin party Fuego just keeps churning out the heat years after it started. Now, in addition to its weekly Friday event, there’s...
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Tammy Baldwin named honorary co-chair of Obama Inauguration
”Every Inauguration holds special significance, but the swearing-in of Barack Obama as president marks a turning point in American history. It’s a privilege to have...
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Rick Warren’s West Hollywood stunt fails, Saddleback removes anti-gay language for ‘clarity’ [video]
”He kind of just wanted me to know that his church had given a lot of money to people with AIDS, and not to believe...
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Etheridge’s wife, Tammy Lynn, thinks Rick Warren ‘LOVES gays’ [video]
rick is not a televangelist. rick is not falwell. rick spoke of some “stupid” things he’s said (his word, not mine), some missquotes that were...
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Pretty in Pink
Let's get right to the point. It is as silly and bubblegum as you thought it would be. Those question marks you included the first...
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Campbell’s ads in The Advocate have conservatives boiling mad
”We support all types of families, regardless of how they’re defined, for more than 100 years. We advertise in a variety...
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Gay-rights leaders come forward with mixed-feelings on Barack Obama
“We are prepared to hold feet to the fire on the issues that are critical to our community.” — Darlene Nipper of NGLTF. ”We have...
