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  • Governor Schwarzenegger welcomes marriage moola

    “You know, I’m wishing everyone good luck with their marriages and I hope that California’s economy is booming because everyone is going to come here...

  • Jamaica leader’s gay-unfriendly, defiant comments; Activists reply

    “We do have a long-standing culture that is very opposed to homosexuality. I think that is changing. I believe there is greater acceptance now that...

  • Equal Protection Victory

    The California Supreme Court's May 15 ruling ending marriage discrimination is remarkable not just for the fact of victory, but for the strength and sweep...

  • Officially Empowered

    Earlier this month poet Dana Gioia, chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, delivered a commencement address to the 300 graduates at Wisconsin's Beloit...

  • Soldiering On for HIV Vaccine

    The September 2007 announcement by Merck that the pharmaceutical giant was halting its large-scale, HIV-vaccine trial due to poor results, haunted a May 16 gathering...

  • Hello, Heroes

    The Capital Pride Planning Committee, the body responsible for Washington's annual Capital Pride celebration, has selected six people to be honored as this year's Capital...

  • Hill Exits SMYAL

    Tasha Hill, a Michigan native who came to Washington from Colorado last year to accept the top spot at the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League...

  • Spring Surprise

    As baseball season enters full swing, the new Washington Nationals stadium will mark its official two-month anniversary May 30. Meanwhile, it seems those Southeast D.C....

  • A Place to Call Home

    Two weeks before opening the District's first transitional home for homeless GLBT youth, Brian Watson is working on only four hours of sleep, consumed by...

  • Soundwaves

    W'S MAGIC MOREL... Right now, there's a new track credited to a Morel with a D.C. pedigree that is generating buzz. No, not Rich Morel's...

  • Princely Return

    ''You may find Narnia a more savage place than you remember.'' Truer words were never spoken by a dwarf in Narnia. It's time to go...

  • Slain David

    The title of Theater J's world premiere musical, David in Shadow and Light, refers to the process by which motion pictures work. As described in...

  • Summer's Day

    No matter that it's been 20 years since her last major pop hit, 17 years since her last album, and she's only had a few...

  • School's Out

    All one can really say about the Folger production of The School for Scandal is that it should have been good. A British director such...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: This is a good time to clear up any misunderstandings, before they get deeper. It's time to educate yourself so that you don't...

  • Abode Well

    Once upon a time, the princes and princesses of metro D.C. lived in a fairytale land of easy money and easy profits, flipping a Logan...

  • The Cute Patrol

    Given the continuing backlash on gas-guzzling SUVs and the ever-growing pain at the pump, ''cute utes'' -- the smaller sport utility vehicles that offer expanded...

  • Half Naked

    Pools in northern climes are set to open this weekend and the beaches are starting to warm. Whether you've been working out or not, you...

  • Hip Hop Stop

    Tony Campbell literally stumbled into his current role as a party promoter. ''Mike, I'm a doctor, I don't know anything about it,'' Campbell says he...

  • PrideScopes

    Sunday, May 25, 2008 Heavenly Round Up: The times are shifting under your feet. What was thought to be solid may in fact be far...