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Gilead Sciences gives $4.5 million to support transgender-led health initiatives
Grants given to 15 transgender-led organizations to try and improve trans health outcomes
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Editor’s Picks: Fiddler, Washington Ballet’s Nutcracker, Josh Sharp, Christmas classic films & more
Our picks of the best arts and entertainment in the D.C. area this week
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Out On the Town: D.C. Arts and Entertainment highlights — December 12-18
Everything arts and entertainment in the D.C. area this week!
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Theater Review: “The Woman in Black” at The Shakespeare
"The Woman in Black" owes much to old-fashioned stagecraft, but it takes its time getting where it's going
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Metro Weekly Magazine Enhanced Digital Edition: Dec. 12, 2019
This week’s issue features audio from the John Waters interview. Click the three “video” slots as indicated in the cover story feature. For the...
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Concert Review: Cher’s Here We Go Again Tour
Cher spreads the pop-rock gospel of giving it “All or Nothing” in her tight, swaggering set at Cap One.
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Conservatives demand Hallmark Channel keep LGBTQ characters out of Christmas films
Petitions say LGBTQ inclusion is at odds with providing "family-friendly" programming, but some signatures may be fake
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Kentucky GOP wants to bar transgender students from restrooms matching their gender identity
Bill would allow cisgender students to sue school districts if they find themselves sharing facilities with transgender students
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Supreme Court refuses to hear Texas transgender inmate’s request for gender confirmation surgery
Appeals court rejected Vanessa Lynn Gibson's contention that denying her surgery violates her Eighth Amendment rights
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Conservative pundit says it’s okay for Trump to sleep with “1,000 women” but Buttigieg is “unnatural”
Dave Daubenmire, the GOP party activist and conservative commentator who has referred to gay presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg as “Pete Buttplug” and speculated about his...
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Right-wing pastor E.W. Jackson says gay people can’t be judges because they can’t be “fair or objective”
E.W. Jackson made the comments during a rant against Trump's 9th Circuit nominee, Patrick Bumatay
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LGBTQ groups balk at removal of amendment to lift military’s transgender ban
LGBTQ groups are incensed and disappointed in the removal of an amendment from the National Defense Authorization Act that would have lifted President Trump’s ban...
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Three women challenge Texas law barring transgender inmates from changing names
Three transgender women have filed a civil suit challenging a Texas law that prohibits current and former transgender federal prison inmates from legally changing their...
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Equality Virginia urges supporters to express support for regulations banning conversion therapy
Equality Virginia, the commonwealth’s top LGBTQ organization, is urging its supporters to take some time to get in some last-minute comments on proposed professional regulations...
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Virginia Democrats, eager to deliver on campaign promises, introduce fair housing bill
In the decade since Del. Delores McQuinn (D-Richmond) first took office, fair housing bills have been introduced each year in the Virginia General Assembly, only...
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Congressional Republicans introduce watered-down “fairness” bill with a host of religious exemptions
Congressional Republicans have introduced a bill aimed at reaching a compromise between prohibiting discrimination against LGBTQ people and respecting the sincerely held religious beliefs of...
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LGBTQ activists attack Pete Buttigieg for previously volunteering with the Salvation Army
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is being attacked for previously volunteering with the Salvation Army, which has rankled some LGBTQ activists who have characterized some...
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Marty Thomas gets romantic with “Slow Dancing”
Marty Thomas calls "Slow Dancing with a Boy" a "project of self-healing"
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California inmate sentenced to death for killing his transgender cellmate
A California inmate has been sentenced to death for killing his cellmate after they had lived together for only eight hours because she was transgender....
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Metro Weekly magazine: 2019-12-05 edition (PDF)
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