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EA Conference Was One Small Step for Gay Gaming, One Giant Leap Still Waiting to be Taken
When Electronic Arts pulled together a roomful of journalists, bloggers and gaming industry types, it didn’t look like an historic event. But while it can...
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Bill Clinton pens strongest support yet for ending his DOMA law
Former President Bill Clinton took his biggest step yet in distancing himself from the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act that bears his signature, writing in...
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Spa World Policy Remains Muddy
Spa World, the suburban Centreville, Va., Korean-style spa at the center of a public-relations storm in recent days following news surfacing of a November incident...
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Pro-gay panel coming to CPAC despite GOProud ban
While GOProud remains banned from the annual Conservative Political Action Conference organized by the American Conservative Union (ACU), that won’t stop one sponsor of CPAC...
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Travel show provides lots of opportunities to escape
The Travel and Adventure Show will be held at the Washington Convention Center, on Sat., March 9 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sun.,...
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Obama signs LGBT-inclusive VAWA back into law
President Barack Obama signed the Violence Against Women Act back into law Thursday, which for the first time includes explicit protections for LGBT victims of...
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Punk-Funk D.C.
Did you know? Washington, D.C., circa the 1980s was a hotbed of pop music, helping germinate two very distinct strands of sound. There was hardcore...
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Heart of Bling
Feeling a tad lackluster in the set department, director/designer and costumer John Pascoe's interpretation of Puccini's Manon Lescaut seems to have lost some burnish since...
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Whitman-Walker Honors Tammy Baldwin
Whitman-Walker Health, the local nonprofit community health center that specializes in HIV-related and LGBT care, announced today that it will present Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.)...
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Coverboy: Aaron
Witty, creative and analytical, Aaron isn't one for dull conversation. The Indiana native first came to the District to attend Gallaudet, where he studied sign...
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Of Meteorites and Marriage
About 20 days ago, a blazing meteorite tore through our atmosphere and exploded over Russia. This was a minor rock, relatively speaking, didn't even see...
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Pushing Forward
''This time we're really excited because we get to be in an actual theater,'' Mara Levi says. The past two years at the Atlas Intersections...
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Woes of Oz
There's something rotten in the state of Oz. It reeks of the billable hour, the legal retainer, the foul stench of litigation. Yes, that fiend...
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Electronic Arts, HRC and Brendon Ayanbadejo to tackle anti-LGBT hate speech in gaming
Tomorrow in New York, video game giant Electronic Arts and the Human Rights Campaign are hosting a discussion on LGBT issues in gaming, including the...
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Artists back away from Superman and Boy Scouts due to anti-gay controversies
An illustrator for DC Comics says he will not work on a new Superman project due to controversy associated with one of its authors, Orson...
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Dancing Bears
'' was pretty much just bears in bars,'' Matt Bearracuda says of the bear scene in San Francisco. ''It was a little too conservative and...
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Mautner on the Move
The Mautner Project has earned its party. Away from all the daily chaos and hoopla of Capitol Hill and iWatch whispers, the ''National Lesbian Health...
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The Best Medicine
Nearly 10 years ago comic Suzanne Westenhoefer told Metro Weekly she had quit smoking, in part because of the Mautner Project. ''I'm not going to...
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Valerie Harper, actress and 2009 Capital Pride Marshal, diagnosed with brain cancer
”I don’t think of dying. I think of being here now.” Actress Valerie Harper, 73, as quoted by People magazine regarding her diagnosis of terminal brain cancer. ...
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LGBT co-eds: Key West is offering great savings for spring breakers
Discounted flights, accomodations and activites are all available to LGBT co-eds seeking to escape to Florida’s gay-friendly Key West for spring break. And, BTW, there...
