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Keeping the Faith
You don't go to Damien Ministries to die. Unlike its early days in the late '80s, when it was known as Damien House, the HIV/AIDS...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round Up: Is it darkest before the dawn? You'll have a chance to see this principle in action all weekend, if you keep your...
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Avenging Angel
Fred Phelps will never go away. That's the harsh reality Romaine Patterson has come to realize about Phelps, leader of the infamously homophobic Westboro Baptist...
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Lion's Club
The other day I noticed a bumper sticker that read, ''If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.'' Robert Redford might have slapped the same...
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Men Behaving Badly
In its final two productions before the winter break, the Washington National Opera gives us a fascinating compare and contrast in its scheduling of Mozart's...
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Plot Tease
There are certain books I only buy when rushing to catch a plane. They're usually mystery/suspense thrillers featuring a persecuted main character, a sympathetic authority...
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Sin City
''I just love Sin,'' Sin Morera says. ''I mean, when you meet me, I look like sin. I just have that edgy, badass...
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Soundwaves
TIN ROOF RUSTED -- AND READY... In 2004, Kate Pierson told Metro Weekly that ''now the stars have aligned'' for her band, The B-52's. The...
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The Last Word
''I was just at the very point of striking him with my belt but we were separated.'' -- Sheikh Falah bin Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan,...
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Art with Heart
More than 70 artists are featured in the Whitman-Walker Clinic's 14th Annual Art for Life auction, which benefits the clinic's Latino services. ''It's an eclectic...
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Sex Drive
''Don Giovanni is sort of a personification of the sex drive,'' says John Pascoe, director and designer of the new production of Mozart's classic, Don...
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Healthful Opportunity
While any number of GLBT-related health summits, workshops and seminars have cropped up in Washington over the years, there's always room for one more --...
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Fighting Back
If Washington was compared not to other cities, but to entire countries, ''It would rank in between the Republic of Congo and Rwanda in terms...
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Hugging it Out
There was lots of love at the Rite Aid Pharmacy, at 13th and U Streets NW, on Tuesday, Oct. 30. About 50 people showed up...
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Finding Family
With Halloween down, it's time to start thinking of Thanksgiving and the rainbow of similarly family-themed holidays to follow in December. Along that theme, Peter...
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All in the Family
Elbridge James can admit that advocating for gay rights wasn't an effort he embraced overnight. ''It's a process that took more than 20 years,'' says...
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After School Special
At 18, Christopher Barnhill wasn't necessarily going through a ''tough time'' when he started hanging out at the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League's after-school Youth...
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Courting Greatness
In a world where gay professional sports icons are few and far between, Martina Navratilova definitely stands out. But even if the pro playing fields...
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Red October
Red October used to be a fictional Soviet submarine. This fall it was applied to the heat wave in the eastern United States. I think...
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Last Word
''Twenty years ago, if you were gay and lived in rural Kansas, you went to San Francisco or New York. Now you can just go...
