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LGBT enthusiasm out in force for Clinton’s undeclared candidacy
The Iowa caucuses, which have long been the start of the presidential-nomination process, are more than 700 days away, but it felt like the height...
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Where Leather Meets Levity
As dependable as cherry blossoms in spring, Washington is once again ready to welcome the Centaur Motorcycle Club's Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend, Jan. 17 to 20....
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A Helper's Heart
''For a long time,'' Ramien Pierre says, ''I would surreptitiously look at leather images, watch leather porn and follow it on the Internet.'' In other...
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Remembering Jim Raymond
As the Centaur MC's Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend unfolds, many taking part will have Jim Raymond in their thoughts. A Centaur and a longtime fixture in...
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MAL 2014 Calendar of Events
The host hotel for the 2014 Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend is the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Ave. NW. Events marked with...
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Fashion Forward
In The Devil Wears Prada, Miranda Priestly is quick to correct Emily No. 2 when she dared to say she did not care about fashion....
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Blowoff Bows Out
Did Rich Morel and Bob Mould come to blows a few months back? Is that why the Blowoff this Saturday, Jan. 18, is the last...
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IHOP Shooter Gets 6 Years
LaShawn Carson, a 29-year-old mother of two young children, was sentenced Thursday to a total of six-and-a-half years in prison on a charge of aggravated...
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Reinventing the Wheels
This week, the Detroit Motor Show gets into full swing, with reveals, concepts and model debuts coming thick and fast as the world’s leading manufacturers...
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Marvin's Room
''It was very heartbreaking for our whole company.'' Marissa McGowan is recalling the 2012 death of storied American composer Marvin Hamlisch. ''He meant so much...
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Misdirection
The popular inability to distinguish fantasy from reality is not a new phenomenon. Snake-oil salesmen have long relied upon their marks' eagerness to believe in...
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Leather's Superheroes
''When you get all these men together, and they stand in these power stances,'' Anthony Dortch Jr. says, ''all I think of is, 'Wow, this...
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French Toast
On the surface you might not expect a collaboration between the InSeries's Carla Hubner -- originally from Chile -- and the Washington Ballet's Septime Webre...
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Sounds of Silence
He's not gay, but members of the LGBT community will identify straightaway with the character Billy in Studio Theatre's arresting production of Nina Raine's Tribes....
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Did Gov. Chris Christie know about Bridgegate?
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Hell Bent for Leather: a musical primer for Mid Atlantic Leather
Later this week leather afficianados from all over the world will descend upon Washington, DC for the annual Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend. Old friendships will be...
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U.S. sounds the alarm over anti-gay Nigerian law
The State Department and human rights advocates are voicing concerns over a new law in Nigeria that not only outlaws same-sex marriage, but LGBT organizations...
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Mizeur Wins More Endorsements
Heather Mizeur, the Montgomery County delegate seeking to become the first female governor of Maryland – and first out lesbian governor of any state –...
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McBride Gets 10 Years for Non-fatal Attack on Transgender Woman
A Washington man who pleaded guilty in October to a charge of aggravated assault while armed for stabbing a transgender woman last June was sentenced...
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Federal judge strikes down Oklahoma’s same-sex marriage ban
Oklahoma’s ban on same-sex marriage was declared unconstitutional by a federal judge Tuesday. “The Court holds that Oklahoma’s constitutional amendment limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples...
