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  • Defeated Bill

    The House Judiciary Committee voted 12-8 against Del. Don Dwyer's (R-Anne Arundel) proposed amendment that would ban marriage rights for same-sex couples in the state...

  • Athletic Support

    Greg Campbell was attending a gay-straight alliance meeting at Wakefield High School in Arlington, where he teaches math and coaches swimming, when he came to...

  • Tackling Tomorrow's Taxes

    With the deadline for individual income-tax returns little more than two weeks away, storefronts are teeming with signs and banners touting ''instant'' tax refunds, some...

  • The Beat Goes On

    Despite some recent reports, Lieutenant Alberto Jova, the gay assistant to Washington's interim Police Chief Cathy Lanier, says the chief has no intentions of removing...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: Disorientation often accompanies a severe change in barometric pressure -- whether the pressures of the deep or a warm front encroaching from the...

  • Red, White and Bleu

    Bleu Copas was 20 the first time he visited New York City -- a trip that included a visit to the observation deck atop the...

  • Positive Changes at Whitman-Walker Clinic

    Officials at Whitman-Walker Clinic announced on Monday, March 20, the addition of three physicians, who will join the staff at the clinic in the coming...

  • PEPCO adopts equal benefits for domestic partners

    Councilmember Mary M. Cheh (D-Ward 3) and the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA) applauded the Potomac Electric Power Company's parent company Pepco Holdings Inc.,...

  • Revealing struggles

    Dilcia Molina is not a criminal. Yet in Honduras, where she was born and raised, the 42-year-old lesbian and mother of two says she was...

  • Campus Crusade

    Across America, at various institutions of higher learning, some policies may seem less than enlightened. From Gordon College in Wenham, Mass., to Baylor University in...

  • Suddenly Susan

    When DJ Susan Morabito plays Apex next Friday, March 30, you won't hear a certain diva on an endless loop shout ''Throw your hands up...

  • Time to Go Topless

    With the final blast of winter passed -- keep your fingers crossed, please -- it's time to turn to thoughts of spring. Blooming flowers, chirping...

  • Long Life Journey

    Five and a half years. Is it still too soon for a 9/11 themed movie? And, in the case of Reign Over Me, is this...

  • Secret Stories

    ''Life should be sweet.'' So says Rose, mother of Mort, mother-in-law to Bev, grandmother of Fern and Sandra. It's that simple. As elderly Rose slowly...

  • Erley Light

    Since March 10, the tone at Long View Gallery (1302 Ninth St. NW; 202-232-4788) has been set by painter Gerard Erley, whose show Poetic Landscape...

  • Cherry Smash

    ''Ten minutes into the play, the audience leans forward and they never lean back. In 30 years of doing theater, I've never seen a play...

  • Return to Oz

    For the past dozen or so Sundays, Steven Scott Mazzola has journeyed into the Land of Oz. It's a trip that has evolved, deepened and...

  • Spreading the Word

    Pam Grier enjoys being something you don't expect. She is, after all, the iconic star of such '70s blaxploitation action classics as Coffy and Foxy...

  • Cybill Rights

    How can you not love Cybill Shepherd? From her stunning on-screen debut as the sexually manipulative Jacy Farrow in 1971's The Last Picture Show to...

  • Shining in the Spotlight

    The spotlight that usually shines on Doug Spearman, whose roles include playing Chance on Logo's Noah's Arc, is the kind associated with Hollywood glitz. But...