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  • Footloose and (mostly) leather-free

    If the thought of thousands of people in town wearing leather and celebrating the leather lifestyle scares you, well, get a non-cowhide grip. (Hearsay hears...

  • Leather, leather everywhere (and not a drop of mink)…

    If you’re part of the leather lifestyle — or even if you just like the look of a man in leather — is this ever...

  • Will Gartshore’s Sensitive Side…

    Hearsay was alerted to this YouTube post of D.C. musical theater phenom Will “Let Me Rip Off My Shirt” Gartshore, performing Sensitive Song at Crack....

  • Varla Jean Merman Speaks Your Language…

    Why, lucky-loo, you’ve got two chances this weekend to see Varla Jean Merman. Who is this mer-man, you ask? Well, she’s reportedly the love child...

  • No Endorsement from Stein Club

    Members of Washington's Gertrude Stein Democratic Club were unable to reach a majority vote in selecting a candidate to endorse for the 2008 presidential elections...

  • Mautner Project Appoints New E.D.

    As the newly appointed executive director of the Mautner Project, Leslie J. Calman is hoping to double the health organization's budget, currently nearing $1 million,...

  • Marriage Buildup

    Lawmakers in Maryland finalized a definition for ''domestic partner'' last week to comply with a state law passed last year that requires insurance companies in...

  • Clinical Restructuring

    Whitman-Walker Clinic announced Jan. 10 that it will layoff more than 10 percent of its workforce as part of a ''restructuring'' of the long-time GLBT...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round Up: You've been practicing really hard. You've been gearing yourself up. You've been reviewing and drilling. But are you ready? Is your heart...

  • Buzz Down Under

    In the summer of 2005, HBO's Six Feet Under ended on a haunting note, with its characters' deaths foretold in a montage that un-spooled to...

  • Creep Show

    As the mysterious caller asked the isolated teenager: Do you like scary movies? If you do, then you've probably already seen everything that takes place...

  • Domestic Bliss

    When I was 25 and at the height of my twinkie powers, the idea of settling down seemed romantic but unlikely. The idea of getting...

  • Roses for the Maestro

    When word came of Jim Holloway's death on Dec. 30, it brought back a flood of memories of this man who directed the Gay Men's...

  • Return to Leather

    Surprisingly, last year was gay-circuit veteran Warren Gluck's first as DJ for the Reaction Dance. ''It was a party that I had wanted to do...

  • Farm Fresh

    There was a time when Nicole Reynolds didn't know she could sing. The 24-year-old native of Pittsburgh worked behind the scenes of the music industry,...

  • Label Free

    Mindy Chateauvert doesn't do too well with labels. The 49-year-old identifies as a ''leather dyke'' when asked about her BDSM orientation. But Chateauvert's involvement among...

  • The Next Generation

    As Gary Samuels competed for the title of Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather 2007 a year ago, he made a pledge to the judges and audience gathered...

  • An Ally's Death

    When Maryland's equal rights organization, Equality Maryland, approached democratic State Senator Gwendolyn T. Britt in September about being a lead sponsor of a bill that...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: It's a funny thing -- what we wish for. It's funnier when those wishes are granted. It's funniest of all to watch folks...

  • GLBT Affairs Releases 2007 Report

    Last year was a busy one for the Mayor's Office of GLBT Affairs, headed by Christopher Dyer and providing five basic services to D.C.'s GLBT...