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  • k.d. lang: Won’t mix music and politics, but will protest China

    “I don’t use my music to voice my politics – I don’t think of myself as a political person…. I have passions that become political...

  • Rosie O’Donnell, T.R. Knight put off legalized wedding bells

    “We’re going to wait until it’s legal everywhere, because otherwise, I said to Kelli, we’ll be going around touring the country on the marriage tour...

  • Star Trek cast to attend George Takei wedding, but not William Shatner

    We knew that the Supreme Court was going to be coming down with their ruling. (We’d heard) that it was probably going to be positive....

  • California gay weddings get final OK to start June 17

    “The California Supreme Court today filed an order in the marriage cases, denying requests to stay its decision until after the November 2008 election and...

  • True Colors Tour 2008

    This year's concert should be cooler and more intimate than was last year's inaugural edition. But at Constitution Hall Saturday night, expect the same level...

  • True Fun

    The B-52s have taken few breaks from performing since emerging out of Athens, Ga., three decades ago. But now, it's fair to say, they've been...

  • True Calling

    Thirty-one years ago, Cyndi Lauper damaged her vocal cords. Doctors told her she would never sing again. As if they could keep the feisty, irrepressible...

  • Furmansky's Farewell

    For the past five years, Dan Furmansky has served as the leading voice of Equality Maryland, the primary organization advocating for GLBT-equality in the state....

  • Gay and Green

    In the local GLBT community, volunteering has a color: burgundy. Since its forming in 2001, Burgundy Crescent Volunteers have infused themselves into nearly all aspects...

  • Budding Prides

    Unity might be key in celebrating Capital Pride. There is, however, also something special about celebrating what might set a group apart, says SaVanna Wanzer,...

  • A Day at the circus

    There I was late Saturday in Washington's historic Wardman Park Hotel -- once used as a set for the film Advise and Consent -- waiting...

  • Bye Bye Birdie

    The only thing flying high today is the price of gas. I don't feel that pinch immediately or directly, as I don't own a car....

  • Talent and Tiaras

    As the co-owner of Cocker Productions, Robert York, a former director of Capital Pride, has been producing Capital Pride pageants for nearly a decade now....

  • M Shutterfly

    Before meeting Tiona M., you might assume she's a little pretentious. No last name? Is this some sort of ''k d lang no capitals please,...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: Emerging into the light like a butterfly struggling out of a chrysalis may take more out of you than you would expect. The...

  • Legendary Visitors

    There are some who will lay everything about the final production in Signature Theatre's Kander and Ebb Celebration -- good or bad -- at the...

  • International Flair

    If you are in the mood for a cozy evening of subtle, intelligent, and thoroughly amusing theater, then Anne Washburn's The Internationalist is just the...

  • Act II

    Imagine Margaret Murray's discomfort when she first walked into One in Ten's offices, tucked into second-floor space behind the Church of the Pilgrim at P...

  • March Madness

    Come Saturday, June 14, at 6:30 p.m., whether the sun is shining or there's a deluge of rain, the 33rd annual Capital Pride Parade officially...

  • Transitioning to Tomorrow

    From its roots in the streets of Dupont Circle to Francis Field, from intimate neighborhood morning to an expanded evening parade, Capital Pride is nothing...