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A Cabaret Life
''I'm following in the footsteps of Judy Garland and Ethel Merman and all the greats,'' says Amy Armstrong, about her career performing cabaret. ''They all...
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Capital Pride Heroes
Each year, the Pride Planning Committee selects a number of individuals to honor as ''Capital Pride Heroes.'' These eight honorees have made extraordinary efforts to...
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The Week In Pride
** -- Denotes Official Pride Event. Tuesday, June 6 **Annual LGBT Pride Week Interfaith Service ''Many Faiths, All Proud!'' -- Sponsored by the Celebration of...
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Fired Up
Clarence* J. Fluker wants everyone to be just as excited as he is. A tall order, perhaps, given his naturally enthusiastic and gregarious personality. But...
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Fighting Back
It's possible, perhaps even likely, that when he walked into the room, Wayne was as surprised to see me as I was upon seeing him....
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Taking the Lead
While I appreciate Will O'Bryan covering the GLBT Mayoral Forum I would have appreciated even more if he was clear about the...
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Raising the Dead
The Pale Blue Eye Your first reaction upon hearing that Louis Bayard, author of the very successful Mr. Timothy (where he raised the literary spirit...
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Sunday Shake-Up
''I suppose people should think about this as Cher's final tour,'' longtime club promoter Mark Lee jokes as he talks about his future in the...
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Dedicated to D.C.
During a town-hall forum focused on the state of the black GLBT community in Washington held earlier this month, a member of the audience asked...
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Friendly Fire
In the style sections of more than one newspaper, I've seen features on how to divorce a friend. These articles usually ooze with self-congratulation over...
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Trans Regs Advance
The D.C. Commission on Human Rights, the city's Office of Human Rights entity with authority over private sector human-rights complaints, took a step May 11...
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Honored Quartet
For 25 years, the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C. (GMCW) has been fulfilling a mission ''to entertain through excellent musical performance, to affirm the...
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Adult Drown
Well, they've gone and done it. They've stripped the ''adventure'' out of The Poseidon Adventure, leaving, fittingly enough, just Poseidon. That's not to say Wolfgang...
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Soundwaves
Belmares ALEGRIA BY ANOTHER NAME... Roland Belmares has spun for party promoter and former DC resident Ric Sena before, at Sena's Alegria in New York,...
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Italian Delight
Captivating: Borodina(Photo by Karin Cooper) Bubbly buoyancy brings the Washington National Opera season to a close in a nicely-conceived high-energy production of Rossini's L'Italiana in...
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Out of Time
''Forgive me, but I don't follow.'' So says Mary, one of Eric Overmyer's three time-traveling dames in On the Verge or the Geography of Yearning,...
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State of Mind
It's been a busy a time in Maryland. And that suits Dan Furmansky just fine. The 32-year-old executive director of Equality Maryland, the state's most...
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Where's the wedding?
The Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, which opposes gay marriage, has just issued a new report finding that relatively few gay couples are getting...
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Rough and Tumble
The tumbleweed, it turned out, was a harbinger. I was a passenger in a car traveling down a small highway in Idaho and the tumbleweed...
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Task Force Titans
From enthusiastic political polemics to impassioned calls for GLBT activism to make its home both in the city and on the range, the stage at...
