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Comprehensive Curriculum
Eighth and 10th grade students in Montgomery County's public schools will embark on a controversial sexual- education curriculum this fall that includes discussion of sexual...
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Here come the chatans
Long before December 2006, when a panel of rabbis on the Conservative Movement's committee on Jewish law and standards voted in to allow individual seminaries...
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Clearing the air
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said there are no plans to disband the city's award-winning Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit, despite media reports and an...
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House Warming
ON THE GLBT choral scene, there is a duo both romantic and professional who have made a name for themselves: composer Robert Seeley and lyricist...
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Duly Noted
LONG BEFORE American Idol-reject William Hung garnered his 15 minutes of fame for his awful renditions of pop songs, Florence Foster Jenkins was selling out...
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Preening in Denmark
Since everyone pretty much knows the deal with Hamlet, the only question is if the Shakespeare Theatre Company's current production is the interpretation for you....
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Witch Slapped
It was probably one of those ideas followed by the exclamation, ''That's so crazy it just might work!'' Don't simply create a stage version of...
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A Friend Indeed
Hello, old friend. If you're a fan of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series, it's impossible to pick up his new book, Michael Tolliver...
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Banal Bunch
Well... it's better than the first one. Faint praise, indeed, but it's really the best you can say for the second installment of the Fantastic...
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Summer Splash
Saturday, June 23 may go down as the ''day'' the Hillwood Gardens ''rocked'' when Pillow Talk screens on the Lunar Lawn of this sprawling estate...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Your mouth is kiting checks faster than your persona can reject them. It's not that you're in a low-energy holding pattern. Simply put,...
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Before He Can Marry
Forty years ago this week, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote in Loving v. Virginia, ''The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of...
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Hearsay
Pride Weekend Wonders... Oops, Hearsay did it again. By the time Hearsay's weekend rolled into Monday, it was too late to turn back. Hearsay is...
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Diving for Dollars
Lambda Divers, a not-for-profit social organization that works to promote scuba diving among the gay community, donated a total of $5,700 to three organizations that...
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'Raw' Deal
Sometimes it's not the four-letter words that cause a commotion. Sometimes it only takes three: r-a-w. That's the word that rankled some local sensibilities when...
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Countdown to Closure?
If ever there was a difficult row to hoe, the displaced gay adult venues formerly of Southeast D.C. can claim it. Open barely a month,...
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History in the Unmaking
The good news is that nobody was hurt. The bad news for local lesbian activist Cheryl Spector and other members of metropolitan Washington's gay community...
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Rainbow Rock
Cyndi Lauper's 21-year-old classic pop hit ''True Colors'' is already something of a gay anthem. Now it's set to become even more -- a signature...
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Blood Bath
Blood and guts and gore. Oh my! Eli Roth's Hostel: Part II delivers everything that you would expect from the sequel to the 2005 original:...
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Hazy Memories
Those were the days: Ice cream cones cost 12 cents, going to the movies was the time to neck with your girlfriend, and an older...
