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  • The Goddess of Gay Days

    There's something about Judy Tenuta and gay audiences. There is a mysterious connection that's kept the two intertwined for the duration of her comic career,...

  • Room to Share

    For loads of gay people throughout the mid-Atlantic region, having a summer share at a house in Rehoboth Beach, Del., is a must. It gets...

  • Transatlantic Treks

    Imagine yourself at sea on a lovely cruise ship. Not bad, right? Now imagine the next port is five days away. To some, a blissful...

  • Dulles and BWI Welcome New Routes

    The airline business is pretty bumpy. Once upon a time, Pan Am and TWA might have been the big dogs at Dulles International Airport. In...

  • Spring, Busting Out All Over

    March Amsterdam Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Through March 24 rozefilmdagen.nl Autre Regard Film Festival Mulhouse, Alsace, France March 17-24 gaymulhouse.fr The Black Party New...

  • Stein Club Fielding Forum Questions

    The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club is now accepting your questions. In a recent email blast, the Stein Club, among D.C.'s most prominent local political clubs,...

  • Boy Scouts send out a survey with gay-related questions

    “Bob is 15 years old, and the only openly gay Scout in a Boy Scout troop. Is it acceptable or unacceptable for the troop leader...

  • So You Think You're a Drag Queen? Season 2, Episode 2

    In this second installment, hosts Shi-Queeta-Lee and lena Lett preside over D.C.'s amateur drag competition. Five new contestants and two returns take to the stage...

  • Keeping Games Out of Will & Grace-land

    Confession time: I never really watched Will & Grace. There are a number of small reasons for this — including the fact that I wasn't...

  • Forgiving Bill Clinton

    Gay opinions on Bill Clinton were always mixed. On election night in 1992, Washington's Shoreham Hotel – where gay activists had zapped the American Psychiatric...

  • Magic Show

    What happened to Steve Carell? He set the comedy world on fire with his naive-fool shtick in The Office and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, sweetening his...

  • Who's That Girl?

    In the words of Jean Genet, ''Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.'' And anyone who likes their...

  • Political Animal

    Having West Wing withdrawal? House of Cards DTs? Richard Schiff has the answer for you. It's called Chasing the Hill, and it's a political Web...

  • Skate Away

    ''I remember my dad taking me to the roller-skating rink when I was a kid, and I did have roller blades in college,'' James Ellzy...

  • Perfect Storm

    It's no surprise that Synetic would turn its hand (and bodies) to The Tempest as one of its Silent Shakespeare series. The dreamy, island-bound narrative,...

  • Maryland Gender-Identity Bill Killed

    The Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee failed Thursday to pass SB 449, the Fairness for All Marylanders Act of 2013, which would have prohibited discrimination...

  • Economic Outlook

    Now that the dust has settled on the 2012 election, the fiscal cliff and budget sequestration, the business of governing in President Obama's second term...

  • Extreme Celebration

    Next week, Abel Aguilera, the celebrated gay circuit veteran known as DJ Abel, will turn fifty. So naturally Ric Sena is throwing him a big...

  • Mixtape Master

    ''Coffee is my vice,'' laughs Matt Bailer. ''I literally drink coffee when I'm DJ-ing at Nellie's. It's kind of the running joke around there.'' Bailer,...

  • Dignity’s gay Catholics respond to Pope Francis’ past rhetoric with hope

    Daniel Barutta, the President of Dignity/Washington, went on WUSA-9 to speak about the choice of Cardinal Bergoglio to be the new leader of the world’s...