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  • Eleven Flavors of Local Leather

    By on January 11, 2006

    Centaur Motorcycle Club D.C. Bear Club Defenders Levi/Leather Club (LLC), Washington, D.C.

  • Bashing the Ban

    By on January 4, 2006

    UPDATED JAN. 5 -- The City Council on Jan. 4 voted 11 to 1 in favor of a bill to ban smoking in all enclosed...

  • The Pink Past

    By on January 4, 2006

    For most, January is an obvious time to stop and reflect on the passage of time as we say good-bye to one year and welcome...

  • High (and Low) Notes

    By on January 4, 2006

    Maybe it's our bias, but we think 2005 will be remembered for its riches of dance-pop treasures and electronica-tweaked rock songs -- not mutually exclusive...

  • Cinema Magic

    By on January 4, 2006

    In the world of movies, 2005 will be a year remembered for the birth of Darth Vader and the death of King Kong (third time's...

  • Stage Presents

    By on January 4, 2006

    No matter what your taste in stage fare, there were plenty of options to choose from in the 2005 theater buffet. Whether you fancy sophisticated...

  • Best of the Last Word 2005

    By on January 4, 2006

    ''It seems that editors at what are, arguably, the nation's most respected (and liberal) newspapers believe that one personal detail cannot be mentioned in even...

  • Dearly Departed

    By on January 4, 2006

    Wanda Alston April 7, 1959 - March 16, 2005 GRIEF TRAVELED as fast as the news that Wanda Alston had been murdered in her Northeast...

  • Bats and Balls

    By on January 4, 2006

    Who could avoid the biggest local news story of 2005, the return of baseball to D.C.? From the front page of newspapers to repetitive sportscasts,...

  • Health Matters

    By on January 4, 2006

    Crystalization CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE had D.C.'s gay community buzzing in 2005, but not in the usual way. In March, the D.C.-based National Coalition for LGBT Health...

  • Holy Matrimony

    By on January 4, 2006

    In the Name of the Law WHAT CAN YOU DO in Spain, Canada, Belgium, South Africa and the Netherlands that you can't do in Texas...

  • Mixed Media

    By on January 4, 2006

    ''Spongebob and Buster, sitting in a tree...'' Sponge Bob Squarepants WHEN THE YEAR kicked off with religious right maven James Dobson of Focus on the...

  • Homefront

    By on January 4, 2006

    Living Check to Check IN ONE OF THE MOST striking moments of 2005, Whitman-Walker Clinic announced in May that it would be unable to meet...

  • The Big Picture

    By on January 4, 2006

    Waves of Relief (Photo courtesy of Connect) AS 2004 CLOSED OUT with the tsunami of gargantuan proportions, 2005 saw more of the same. And the...

  • The Year in Review 2005

    By on January 4, 2006

    Now that 2005 is finally over, we can decide whether the last twelve months constituted an annus horribulus or an annus mirabilis. Well, it depends...

  • The Year in Pictures 2005

    By on December 28, 2005

    January · Lizard Lounge · Ziegfeld's /

  • Brokeback's Lack

    By on December 21, 2005

    In a 1980 essay entitled ''The Boys on the Beach,'' conservative writer Midge Decter described the gay men who summered at Fire Island in the...

  • Drama Queen

    By on December 21, 2005

    I have a weakness -- well, it's one of many, of course. But this one is particularly vile and causes me special shame when I...

  • Human Nature

    By on December 21, 2005

    The issue of what to do for New Year's Eve is just about here again. As usual, I've got zilch for ideas and, like many...

  • Bike Beat

    By on December 21, 2005

    The Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department added two police mountain bikes to the unit's arsenal Friday, Dec. 16,...