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D.C. Gay Candidates Gearing Up for 2014
2014 promises to be another banner year for the District's LGBT community, which enjoys – at least on paper – almost full equality with the...
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DC Center Elects Officers
The board of directors for The DC Center, the District's LGBT community center, on Jan. 3 announced the center's new board members and officers for...
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Man on hunger strike against gay marriage: “It will end when this stops or I am dead.”
Just consider him a modern, equality-hating, historically confused Gandhi. A 35-year-old Utah man has decided to fast until the state nullifies marriage equality. Trestin Meacham...
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Going Paleo: Can modern man live without cheese, pickles or Tostitos?
Sometimes change occurs in the most innocuous of ways. Like, say, at a big gay dinner where a couple of friendly, fit gay strangers extol...
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A Wintry Mix
As the temperatures plummet, snow falls around the Washington D.C. area and we ease into the heart of winter, it’s time to think about some...
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Magazine: 2014-01-02 edition (PDF)
Metro Weekly – 01-02-14 – Year in Scene by MetroWeekly
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Gay travel survey finds leisure trips up, New York City a big draw and free WiFi important
For the 18th year, San Francisco-based Community Marketing, Inc. (CMI) has released key findings from its annual LGBT travel survey. Here are CMI’s top ten...
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2014: Year in Preview
When you're done enjoying all the Scene shots from 2013, have a taste what's ahead in the coming year. (All information subject to change.) JANUARY...
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District of Dance
''Our intent,'' says Carla Perlo of Dance Place, ''is to shed light on the fact that yes, we have world-class companies that have chosen to...
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Coming Up Roses
Last year it was Dreamgirls. The year before, Hairspray. And now Signature Theatre has staged another holiday season treat, what you might call the mother...
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Flashback: Ten 80s Classics that missed the Top 40
As we’ve seen over the years, chart position isn’t everything. There are songs that scale the upper reaches of the pop charts that don’t make...
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Finding a Lost Son
I begin with a spoiler alert: If you have not seen the movie Philomena, you may want to see it before reading further. It is...
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The Year in Scene 2013
Photographs by Ward Morrison, Christopher Cunetto, Todd Franson, Rhuaridh Marr and Randy Shulman. // Visit Metro Weekly's Scene section to see all of our
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Utah urges Supreme Court to block same-sex marriages
Utah asked the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to bring a halt to same-sex marriages in the heavily Mormon state. In a stay request filed with...
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Movie Review: Saving Mr. Banks
Saving Mr. Banks is the tale of how the legendary Walt Disney, after an arduous 20-year ”wooing” process, finally wrested the rights to Mary Poppins...
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2013 ends with flurry of advances for marriage equality
The year it set to end after a series of victories for marriage equality in numerous states, culminating with one federal court’s decision leading to...
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Duck Amuck
One of the more frustrating aspects of the annual media rite of ''Year in Review'' stories is that they start hitting around Dec. 1, which...
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Robin Roberts caps 2013 list of famous gay, bisexual and transgender celebs
Morning TV host Robin Roberts used her Facebook page to thank those who have helped her recover from a rare and serious blood disorder. Somewhere between...
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Elevation Tahoe added to 2014 schedule of LGBT ski weeks
First it was Mammoth, then Utah, and now it is Tahoe that will play host to a new LGBT ski week by promoter Tom Whitman....
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Giorgio Moroder: 10 of his classic productions
It’s impossible to overstate the importance of Giorgio Moroder to pop and dance music in the late ’70s and throughout the ’80s and beyond. His...
