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  • HIPS Needs Help

    Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive (HIPS) will hold its quarterly volunteer orientation -- a requirement for anyone hoping to volunteer for the organization -- on Saturday,...

  • Bus Boys Head to Beach

    From New York City, the trip to Fire Island starts with catching the Long Island Railroad at Penn Station. Gay Bostonians hop onto a high-speed...

  • Tale of Two Mommies

    Janet Jenkins has been fighting for visitation rights to her 5-year-old daughter, Isabella, for more than three years now. Throughout her ongoing custody battle with...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: It's a long and winding trail, no question. Yet you're receiving information faster than you can find a place to put it. You're...

  • Czech Mate

    Who knew a 19th century Czech opera could be as riveting and edgy as anything you're likely to catch on HBO? Thankfully, the Washington National...

  • Soundwaves

    Charmed city... At least two gay club tours traveling around the country will stop at Baltimore's Hippo nightclub. First up: DJ Seth Gold's Black Out...

  • High Jinx

    ''It's about being wacky and theatrical and bizarre, coming up with really irreverent, potty-mouth humor,'' says Shea Van Horn, referring to his preferred style of...

  • God Knows

    Recounting her initial fears about launching a transgender choir, founder Ashley Moore says, ''Are people going to be able to stop laughing long enough to...

  • Still Cooking

    It's hard to pinpoint exactly when and where Barbara Cook kicked off her long and varied career. The Broadway legend, who lives in New York...

  • Queens of Comedy

    How many gay Washingtonians does it take to start a monthly comedy night? Just two, it seems. On the surface, that's not a very funny...

  • Time Misspent

    Is there anything more dreadful than running into that ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend you just can't stand? Now there is. At least the unexpected ex sighting...

  • Web Head

    The giddy anticipation of a movie is sometimes better than the movie itself. You enter more excited than you ultimately exit. Such is frequently the...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round Up: Is this the fullness of time about which one hears so very much? If so, then why are you tap-dancing for all...

  • Bowing Out

    Craig A. Bowman, longtime executive director of the National Youth Advocacy Coalition, a not-for-profit GLBT organization, announced his resignation from the position on Thursday, April...

  • New Year, New Mix

    The local Asian/Pacific-Islander GLBT community is an expansive mix, reflecting cultures from Pakistan to Fiji, from the tropics to the high Himalaya. The nearly infinite...

  • Resigning the Case

    Thomas ''Tad'' DiBiase, the prosecutor leading the investigation into the unsolved murder of Washington attorney Robert Wone, who was murdered in a Swann Street townhouse...

  • On the Beat

    She may be the newly appointed supervisor of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department's Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU), but underneath it all, Sgt....

  • Moviegoing Maryland

    The Maryland Film Festival kicks off a stunning four-day event today, Thursday, May 3, and runs through Sunday, May 6, with most of the screenings...

  • Fractured Nest

    There's something intriguing about the intimate, something about limited scale that gives rise to daring creativity. Think of the rise of the hip boutique hotel....

  • The Kids Are All Right

    Unlike the past two years, it didn't rain. And by midday, there was an exuberant mood and plenty to see and do at the 11th...