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Jazz Singer
Robin McKelle Remember ''Abracadabra''? The Steve Miller Band's '80s hit was good cheesy pop, but it was less magic trick than novelty act. If you...
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Soundwaves
YOKO ONO'S PEACE DANCE... In a world coming increasingly unmoored, pleas for peace may seem naïve, but they're also very necessary. Just as she did...
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Sticky Fingers
Contemplation of the Post-Industrial Family surely ranks as one of the most indispensable themes of the modern playwright. What writer worth their salt can resist...
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Offending the Masses
Hamlet 2 is blasphemy, pure and simple. And it's not just the musical number ''Rock Me Sexy Jesus'' that's going to have people apoplectic; Shakespeare...
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Electric Company
In a time of four-dollar-a-gallon gas, nothing primes the pump of personal satisfaction quite like driving a hybrid. You can sigh with self-important relief as...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: There are a million relevant details -- or is that a million and three? They replicate like tribbles: The more you do, the...
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On the Outs
Love him or hate him, blog-reading Washingtonians know Mike Rogers. And his handiwork can be seen in some collapsed careers. Rogers is that boogeyman that...
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Past Personal
Being an early adopter in the world of blogging, Jim Barrett has learned a few lessons over time. ''I've learned not to write about family,...
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Strange Blogfellows
Born just a few months apart and thousands of miles from each other, both John Aravosis and Andrew Sullivan today call Washington home. And both...
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Heath and Home
Advances in technology are often heralded as labor-saving enhancements of our way of life. Yet the technology often seems to simply create avenues for even...
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The New Gay Way
Laura Varlas wasn't expecting the outpouring of responses to her blog post last April about lesbian business attire, what she dubbed ''lez casual.'' ''It was...
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Life in Real Time
The revolution came and it was blogged. Since the advent of personal blogs as an internet phenomenon, the new media format has literally changed the...
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From the Top
When John Flowers and his partner, David Muller, bought a small row house near Dupont Circle, the roof was one of the first projects they...
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Transgender vets face additional discrimination
”We did our time. What happened to us after we got out doesn’t have anything to do with whether we deserve care. We are aware...
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Barney Frank speaks out on Obama vs. McCain
”If Obama wins and we have a Democratic majority in the House and the Senate, we will see legislation that will remove some of the...
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Lesbian kicked out of Federal building due to ‘Lesbian.com’ T-shirt
”As an African-American and a lesbian, I haven’t been through one day without facing some sort of discrimination … but this is just shocking.” Lapriss...
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Ban on gay adoptions & fostering broadened to affect all non-married parents in Arkansas
”Arkansas needs to affirm the importance of married mothers and fathers. We need to publicly affirm the gold standard of rearing children whenever we can....
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Talking street fashion and techniques with transgenders of NYC’s ‘sidewalk runway’
”I would describe it as ‘Take me.’ … My friends say my sense of style is bitch.” — Shawn Rachel, 28 ”Today is classic and...
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Study finds kink seems normal; Gays & lesbians more open to BDSM
”Our findings support the idea that bondage and discipline and sadomasochism (BDSM) is simply a sexual interest or subculture attractive to a minority…. People with...
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Obama’s non-support for gay marriage loses donation from gay media owner, Paul Colichman
I thought, ‘Get over yourself!’ I had literally written out a check to the Obama campaign. And then I saw him in...
