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  • Love Game

    By on April 9, 2008

    When I picked up a racquet for the first time in 16 years and joined a gay tennis league, I set my expectations low. Basically,...

  • Go Team!

    By on April 9, 2008

    With a myriad of gay and lesbian sports organizations in the area, it may seem daunting to try to pull them all together for common...

  • Gearing up for Spring

    By on April 9, 2008

    Once upon a time, when sports were the domain of the heterosexual male and outcasts were always chosen last, gay and lesbian athletes were invisible...

  • Life is a mystery

    By on April 8, 2008

    “I think ‘Queer Nation’ and ‘Diva’ just go together. The diva in them recognized the diva in me.”  –Madonna on what it’s like to be one...

  • Wine before beer, how queer…

    By on April 3, 2008

    Hearsay remembers its first like it was last weekend, and no, it doesn’t mean mutual lollipop licking at the Fireplace — though there’s no better...

  • In the House

    By on April 2, 2008

    In New York City, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah claims to be the world's largest GLBT synagogue. Beth Chayim Chadashim, founded in 1972 in Los Angeles,...

  • A Warm GLOE

    By on April 2, 2008

    The District of Columbia Jewish Community Center, better known as the DCJCC -- or simply as ''The J'' for those really in the know --...

  • Breaking Barriers

    By on April 2, 2008

    Breaking down barriers is old hat for Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton. After all, she's been breaking them since she was a little girl in Montreal. The...

  • Passover in Pink

    By on April 2, 2008

    While the modern world has the bittersweet claim of Juneteenth -- the June 19 holiday that since late in the 19th century marked the end...

  • State of the World

    By on April 2, 2008

    On March 11, the State Department released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007. A compilation of the LGBT- and HIV/AIDS-related portions is...

  • Fueling Oppression

    By on April 2, 2008

    A few weeks ago, I was going to take up the call of American energy independence from a gay perspective. Some online research immediately pointed...

  • Out in the Open

    By on April 2, 2008

    A lack of resources inspired Bruce Weiss, former executive director of the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL), to join forces last summer with a...

  • Uncommon decency

    By on April 2, 2008

    In August 2007, D.C. announced the firing of three corrections officers for wrongfully placing a transgender inmate, who had female genitalia, in a male jail...

  • History Making

    By on April 2, 2008

    For lucky students, there is one teacher who touches their minds in a special way that opens the world of knowledge to them and changes...

  • Marathon Man

    By on April 2, 2008

    The phrase ''he's running a marathon'' is very often followed by ''why?'' Understandably so. Training for and competing in a marathon involves endless hours of...

  • Jazzy Fare

    By on April 2, 2008

    ''I tell you, 'Charlie Brown' is a big tipper!'' Yvonne Johnson knows just what the crowds like at M Street Bar & Grill. Johnson serves...

  • Horoscope

    By on April 2, 2008

    Heavenly Round-Up: Can things simultaneously heat up and cool down? Is it possible for something going backward to make forward progress? Chaos physics aside, yes,...

  • Kosher for Passover

    By on April 2, 2008

    Jewish food -- especially that which is served during Passover -- all too often gets a bum rap. Take gefilte fish, for example. It's essentially...

  • Eco-Friendly

    By on April 2, 2008

    Everybody's going green. Some cities - though not D.C. - went dark last weekend for ''Earth Hour'' to inspire people to turn their lights off...

  • The government is hiding behind the court…

    By on March 29, 2008

    “The government is hiding behind the court to close the newspaper. It is sending a message to the media that it will not tolerate press...