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Healthy Outlook: A Q&A with Whitman-Walker Health CEO Naseema Shafi
Shafi aims to promote diversity and social justice as part of the organization's greater mission.
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Editor’s Picks: Middleburg Film Festival, Tosca, Sampson McCormick, Trying, The Baltimore Consort, more!
Tosca, Candida, Middleburg Film Festival, Sugarloaf Crafts Festival
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Out On the Town: D.C. arts and entertainment highlights: Oct. 10th to 16th
FILM ALIEN To celebrate its 40th anniversary, Fathom Events returns the original Alien to the big screen. A classic with a tough-minded heroine, Ridley Scott’s...
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Pink Martini’s Thomas Lauderdale loves to get naked and build forts
Lauderdale's effervescent Pink Martini celebrates its 25th birthday with a Kennedy Center bash!
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The Kennedy Center’s Broadway Center Stage opens its third season with “Footloose”
Tony-winning director Walter Bobbie returns to a musical he first directed on Broadway
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The Bethesda Row Arts Festival returns with new artists and a new interactive map
Jon Gann implemented several significant changes at the annual event
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D.C. Nightlife Highlights: Howard Homecoming Megaparty, U Street Bar Mixer, The Big Board, and more!
Our picks of the best LGBTQ nightlife in the D.C. area!
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Metro Weekly Magazine: Print Edition for Oct. 10, 2019
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California governor signs bill expanding access to HIV prevention medication
Earlier this week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a law that expands access to HIV prevention medications in an effort to reduce the number...
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Anti-gay subway attacker pleads guilty to hate crime for fracturing woman’s spine
A man who hurled homophobic insults at and physically attacked a woman on the New York subway after seeing her kiss a female friend on...
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Federal judge overturns Tampa’s ban on conversion therapy
Last week, a federal judge struck down Tampa’s ban on conversion therapy, ruling that the law, which was passed by the City Council in 2017,...
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Supreme Court hears arguments in LGBTQ discrimination cases
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a pair of cases that could have historic implications for the civil rights of the LGBTQ...
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“The Color Purple” actress sues after being fired over past anti-gay Facebook posts
A British stage actress is suing a theater she once worked for and her former agents after she was fired from the play The Color Purple over...
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West Point, Va., teacher sues over firing for refusing to use trans student’s correct pronouns
A Virginia teacher who was fired for insubordination after he refused to refer to a transgender student using male pronouns is suing his former employer....
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Federal judge says Catholic adoption agency has interest in turning away gay couples
A federal judge in Michigan has ruled that a Catholic adoption agency can refuse to place children with same-sex couples due to its religious beliefs,...
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Federal judge upholds right of Southern Poverty Law Center to refer to anti-gay group as “hate group”
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Florida-based anti-LGBTQ ministry against the Southern Poverty Law Center for designating it as a “hate...
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Dan Hoy is having the time of his life in Cats
Dan Hoy brings a powerful voice and fancy footwork to the role of Munkustrap in the touring production
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Alphonso David on Trump’s anti-LGBTQ agenda: “We are at a crossroads for the soul of our country.”
HRC's new president wants to stop Trump, elevate trans people, and fight for LGBTQ rights everywhere
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Film Review: ‘Joker’ offers a terrifying version of Batman’s nemesis
A comic-book villain inflicts realistic pain in Todd Phillips' well-made and still-maddening "Joker"
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Kennedy Center celebrates late, gay modern dance pioneer Merce Cunningham
"Merce Cunningham at 100" runs through Saturday, Oct. 5
