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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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: Maybe you've got it like that, and maybe you've fallen into believing the hype. With so much extra material swirling around the issues...

  • Save the Clubs

    I do not spend much time in nude dancing clubs. I nonetheless defend them for several reasons: Because adults in an international city like Washington...

  • Row Your Boat

    Out 2 Paddle, a gay rowing team sponsored by metropolitan Washington's Asian/Pacific-Islander Queers United for Action (AQUA), took the gold at the sixth annual Dragon...

  • Debate Heats Up

    For those who could not make it to the May 16 town-hall meeting called by Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. (D-Ward 5), at Bethesda Baptist Church...