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  • Transgender Titles

    After brainstorming with other members at Transgender Health Empowerment, Inc., Brian Watson, director of programs at THE, says he decided that a pageant was the...

  • Final Chapter

    Funny, generous, kind. Those are the words friends use to describe Niam Marcus Slyman -- better known simply as Marc -- who died Monday, Feb....

  • Prime-time Pioneer

    In mid July of 1992, the United States was simmering -- not from the heat, so much as the feeling of change in the air....

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: Don't take your eye off the ball for a second. Everything is in a new kind of flux -- chaos will resolve itself...

  • Local News Briefs

    Virginia Legislative Session wraps Sarah Gustafson, president of Equality Fairfax, says she is ''pleased'' with the outcome of Virginia's 2007 legislative session, which convened Jan....

  • Positive Nutrition

    The kitchen is said to be the heart of the home -- and for people who are HIV positive, it can be the heart of...

  • Defining a Foe

    Continuing its series of ''town hall'' style forums to discuss methamphetamine use in Washington, the D.C. Crystal Meth Working Group (CMWG) Monday evening, Feb. 26,...

  • Snake on a Chain

    First off, an important disclaimer about Black Snake Moan. The snakes are metaphorical -- they did not follow Samuel L. Jackson off the plane. In...

  • Step Right Up!

    Like a colorful circus poster come to life, the Kennedy Center's production of Bob Merrill's Carnival! leaps with song, dance, magic and an abundance of...

  • Break It Down

    It's a sunny 80 degrees in Puerto Vallarta, where Mara Levi is celebrating her 30th birthday with family and working on her tan. She's also...

  • Mister Sister

    You may have heard that a Scissor Sisters show is exercise in energy -- if you're not ready to dance in the aisles, why bother?...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: You said the magic words and threw the beans over your shoulder. Now they're sprouting: Large as life and twice as natural, they're...

  • Musical Flexibility

    ''Movin' Up'' may have a religious provenance with its powerful chorus delivered by a church-reared belter, but God had nothing to do with DJ Mike...

  • Modern Makeovers

    Erin McKeown's latest album launches a bit ominously, with her shouting, ''Hallelujah, all you sinners gather round...just follow me.'' It becomes easy enough to do,...

  • Nonstop Assault

    The short life of Sarah Kane is one of those stories that are equal parts artistic legend and unredeemable tragedy. An aspiring actress, Kane gradually...

  • Law Breaking

    Breaking and Entering is an adult film with adult themes, an adult pace and adult sensibilities. It's awash in a sea of adultness. And why...

  • Local Briefs

    Whitman-Walker Clinic welcomes Capital Pride partners Thirteen local organizations have partnered with Whitman-Walker Clinic to organize and plan this year's Capital Pride celebration, scheduled for...

  • Visible Moments

    Sonali Gulati never had the chance to come out to her mother, who died several years ago. For the past two years, the South Asian...

  • Last minute break

    The answer was in his wallet all along. And when Howard Daniel stumbled upon on the business card of Steven S. Smith in November 2006,...

  • State of the Movement

    Nearly 100 people gathered at the Human Rights Campaign's headquarters on Tuesday, Feb. 20, for the D.C. Chapter of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists...