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D.C. Black Pride
BEFORE D.C. BLACK Pride existed, there was the ''Children's Hour,'' an annual Memorial Day gathering for members of the black LGBT community, spread by word...
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Capital Pride Community Partners
Together we can. Together we will. The theme for this year's Capital Pride is an appropriate one -- the movement for gay, lesbian, bisexual and...
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Pride and Justice
Tom Goss had an obsession eight years ago when he graduated from high school. ''I was completely obsessed with Dave Matthews and his music,'' he...
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Totally Wicked
From her old band, The Outskirts of Town, to its new incarnation, Wicked Jezabel, righteous rocker Pauline Anson-Dross has been a Capital Pride mainstay for...
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Hypnotic Effect
Hitting the Capital Pride main stage last year in 2006 was a big deal for the Mesmers. ''It was the biggest audience we had ever...
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Manifest Destiny
Destiny B. Childs has racked up a lot of titles in three short years of life: Miss Gaye Dreamgirls. Miss International Gay Rodeo Association. Miss...
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Hip Hop Girl Power
A little exposure goes a long way, particularly for the lesbian hip-hop duo God-Des & She. ''We've gotten a lot of Pride offers this year,...
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A Welcoming Home
Mara Levi jokes that during her early Capital Pride Mainstage set a couple years ago, she may have been seen as a bit of a...
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Her Time, Again
Dance music hitmaker and '90s pop sensation Crystal Waters has always had strong support from the gay community, in part because of her chosen genre...
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Letter from the Director of Capital Pride
Welcome to the 2007 Capital Pride Festival! It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the 32nd annual Capital Pride Festival. We hope...
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Evolving Pride
EVEN AFTER THREE decades, there's one thing you can say about Pride -- it keeps on changing. Since its beginnings in Dupont Circle, D.C.'s annual...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Are you feeling lucky, punk? I hope not. It's not the time or place to let important outcomes hang on merest chance and...
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To Be or Not To Be
It says so much about Tom Stoppard that he can write such a fun, irreverent and wit-packed play as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and...
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Gay and Yiddish
''For me to sing a standard Yiddish love song would kind of ring false. Pretending that I'm some straight loverboy -- it just doesn't work...
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Shipwrecked
There is a terrifically clever moment in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the third and unlikely final installment in the box-office blockbusting series,...
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Over The Rainbow
''This is the first 'gay' album I've ever released,'' jazz musician Dave Koz says about his new album, At The Movies, a tribute to movie...
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Gay in Court
Attorneys from GAYLAW, a local organization of GLBT attorneys, made a bit of history Tuesday morning, as they were sworn-in to the Bar of the...
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Marching Forward
There's something appropriate about all the uncertainty that surrounds this year's Dyke March. Just a few weeks ago, local folk singer Mara Levi found out...
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A Pride Trans-formation
With new protections for transgender people going into effect in October 2006, Washington has the distinction of leading the country in protecting the transgender community...
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Party with a Cause
It wasn't until the clock hit the 6 p.m. closing hour of D.C. Black Pride's ''Liberty, Unity, Strength'' Festival that R&B singer Monica finally made...
