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HIV-vaccine trial halted after review board finds no effect
“These results do not change the fundamental view that an AIDS vaccine remains critical to any long-term strategy to end the AIDS epidemic.” Matthew Rose,...
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LGBT groups warn of shortcomings as ENDA reintroduced
Today’s reintroduction of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) in the Senate and House of Representatives has largely been greeted with cheers, but some are expressing...
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Good Times for Bad Boys
Long story short, I found myself cruising around the Tidal Basin in the back of a black limousine with famed porn director Chi-Chi LaRue, a...
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Preventing a Mob
On April 19, after the arrest of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (hereinafter ''Johar''), residents of Boston's Watertown neighborhood applauded the police and chanted, ''USA! USA!''...
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Allies on the Ice
As far as the D.C.-area hockey community is concerned, the time to end any stereotypes of hockey as a virulently homophobic sport filled to the...
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Rhymes with ''Gay''
Earlier this year, when Chamber Executive Director Mark Guenther shared his excitement over plans for a networking event sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency, he...
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As ENDA returns to Congress, Obama’s White House remains a key component
When the White House puts its full weight behind a piece of legislation it wants to see become law, that push is hard to miss....
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Mark Bingham’s mother takes on 9/11, Boston bombing conspiracy theorists
“I’ve come to the conclusion that you really can’t talk to those folks. You cannot reason with them, because they are so invested in the crazy...
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R.I. Senate passes gay-marriage bills, 26-12, sending them back to House for final vote
The Rhode Island State Senate overwhelmingly approved amended House and Senate versions of a marriage-equality bill on a 26-12 vote Wednesday evening, sending the measures...
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New Xbox to be announced on May 21st
“On Tuesday May 21st, we’ll mark the beginning of a new generation of games” So says Xbox’s Major Nelson, who announced the news today on...
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Los Angeles: a gay summer in the city
And babe, don’t you know it’s a pityThat the days can’t be like the nightsIn the summer, in the cityIn the summer, in the city...
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Lightning Strikes Again
Like so many others, Patrick Little credits Tracks in making him the gay man he is today. ''It's a common story of Tracks,'' he says....
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Bailey's Crossroad
METRO WEEKLY: What did Tracks mean to you? ED BAILEY: Tracks was where my passion and my love affair with nightlife and nightclubs started, absolutely....
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Tracks Star
Michele Miruski is still in the entertainment business -- in a manner of speaking. ''I entertain the residents all day long, or make sure they're...
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Remembering Tracks
Metro Weekly asked readers to submit their memories of Tracks. Some highlights. ''I believe a lot of people became 'straight, but not narrow' because of...
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Rapping Bear
The raunchy gay bear rapper known as Big Dipper has gained a reputation as a sexual provocateur. ''Every venue I go to, after my show,...
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Saturday Night Euphoria
''Some bands are definitely more hetero. Some bands aren't gay enough,'' says Kim Moyes, chuckling. ''Whereas we definitely have our fair share.'' Moyes is one-half...
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War Torn: ''Wallenstein''
Playing in rep with Coriolanus, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Wallenstein offers another angle on a powerful military man falling fatally from grace. As extraordinary as...
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The Sweet Smell of Ba'Naka
{Ba'Naka and friends (Photo by Julian Vankim)} Dustin Michael Schaad developed his drag alter ego Ba'Naka early. ''The first time was at a high school...
