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Oscar, Oscar, Oscar!
This Sunday we will know. We will know if Brokeback Mountain, a traditional unrequited love story cut from traditional Hollywood cloth but featuring a non-traditional...
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Webb of Truth
''It just so happens that my two most recent credits both happened to be gay men,'' says Jeremy Webb of his TV work. ''[Law &...
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Forever Annie's
Some say it's a landmark. Some say it's an institution. Some call it a part of Washington's gay identity. Whatever Annie's Paramount Steakhouse is, there's...
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That Sinking Feeling
In the end, it came down to plumber's putty. OK, not really ''in the end.'' The end has yet to be reached; I do have...
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Big Gay Book Group
Big Gay Book Club MISSION: Formed in 2004, the Big Gay Book Group is a forum open to all to discuss gay literature on a...
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Mamet's Girls
That Kate Eastwood Norris. You can't help but fall for her adorable little chuckle and wry, impish grin. She's a sprite of the stage. And...
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Meditative Orbit
Almost a decade has passed since Ray of Light shined over the music industry. Since then, Madonna and William Orbit, her Ray of Light producer,...
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Boiling Over
Has anyone else noticed that Julianne Moore keeps playing women whose kids go missing? In The Forgotten, her boy was grabbed by aliens. In Freedomland,...
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Gay-borhood Watch
Sgt. Brett Parson, head of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Dept.'s Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU) is asking that anyone with information regarding the...
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Happy York Day
For most Americans, Feb. 20 was a day off from work or school, thanks to the federal government honoring Washington's Birthday. In D.C., the day...
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Queer Cash
In the midst of tax season, thoughts inevitably turn to money. For gay people, especially couples, those thoughts might get pretty complicated. It may walk...
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Worlds in Motion
An unexpected moment in a quiet Cuban store provided an epiphany of sorts for Daniel Phoenix Singh. The store's proprietor, an elderly woman, was dancing...
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Surface Attractions
As I would have predicted, the moment our unseasonably warm January temperatures gave way to a bitter chill, the new Pontiac Solstice convertible roadster showed...
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Leather Ladies
When you think of the D.C. Eagle, women -- especially lesbians -- don't necessarily spring to mind. ''It's a pretty male-dominated space,'' admits Schelli Dittmann,...
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Losing an Ally
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated nearly 40 years ago, is a global icon for civil rights and social justice. In the years since...
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Unpretty in Pink
February has never been a good month for movies, but this year the pickings seem awfully, well... awful. Last weekend's three major studio releases included...
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Velvet Touch
It's turning out to be a banner year for Will Gartshore. Last week, the actor nabbed two Helen Hayes Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor...
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Special Delivery
Painful memory: the cast of Midwives (Photo by Stan Barouh) At a home in Northeast Kingdom, Vt., in the early 1980s, a ferocious winter storm...
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Searching for STDs
Twelve months ago, almost to the week, gay men were hearing the alarm about STDs on the horizon: a new ''super strain'' of HIV and...
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Birthday Suit
Chi Chi La Rue may have shot a porn film called Striptease on location at D.C.'s Wet nightclub, but like so many films, the fantasy...
