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Hate Crimes Against Gays and Lesbians Increase In 2011
Hate crimes against gays and lesbians are on the rise in America, according to the latest report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Released earlier...
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Coverboy of the Year [video]
Who will be the 2012 Coverboy of the year? Watch our trailer to see who the top three finalists are and then visit http://www.metroweekly.com or pick up...
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Setting the Richmond Stage
LGBT rights groups, led by Equality Virginia, the largest such group in the state, are rallying around an antidiscrimination bill ahead of the 2013 legislative...
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BREAKING: Supreme Court To Weigh In On Same-Sex Marriage
The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear a pair of cases regrarding state and federal same-sex marriage laws, determining the constitutionality of California’s...
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FRC Shooting Case Continued to January
The man accused of shooting a security guard at the D.C. headquarters of the anti-LGBT Family Research Council (FRC), appeared in U.S. District Court Thursday...
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Annapolis Business Drops Weddings
With the start of the new year, same-sex couples will have access to legally sanctioned marriage in Maryland. This comes after the state already recognized...
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Jim DeMint To Leave Senate To Head Conservative Think Tank
Anti-gay Sen. Jim DeMint announced Thursday that he would resign from the Senate to head one of the country’s largest conservative think tanks. The South...
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Wealthy LGBT Americans Urge Support for Obama’s Plan to Avert “Fiscal Cliff”
In a Dec. 5 letter sent to Democratic and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, 24 of the country’s most financially successful gays and lesbians urged...
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Cities of Refuge
On the night of Dec. 1, members of Light Brigade Maryland, joined by members of GetEqual DC and the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA),...
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Protest Shines on Ugandan Embassy
Groups of local activists joined Saturday evening, Dec. 1, to protest the renewed push in the Ugandan Parliament for a bill that would further criminalize...
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Giving Thanks
Philip Pannell is getting a vacation. Finally. ''It's only the second vacation I've ever had in my life,'' says Pannell, 62, an icon of grassroots...
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A Pop-Up Success
Now you see them, now you don't. One of the hottest trends in business, from corporate giants to sole proprietorships, is ''pop-up retail.'' Also known...
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Breakups and Breakdowns
There are several moments on Rihanna's new album Unapologetic in which the synthesizers sound as if they simply couldn't handle all the pressure and sputter...
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Birchmere Babes
''I like to say I went from being a Hag to being a Bitchin' Babe, which is clearly a promotion,'' jokes local singer-songwriter Debi Smith....
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Musical Trips
No doubt, you've heard the hype. Last month The Washington Post reported that Signature Theatre decided to stage Dreamgirls, purely and simply, as a showcase...
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Back to the Bard
''Elizabethan London and contemporary Washington, D.C., probably have more in common than any two other cities,'' says Ethan McSweeny. It's because of that link that...
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Fairy Dust
Enchantingly atmospheric and often funny, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's A Midsummer Night's Dream is rich with love's intangibles: wistfulness, a touch of cynicism, and its...
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Winter Travel
The so-called holiday season is just the beginning of winter. The D.C. days might start getting the tiniest bit longer by Dec. 22, but that's...
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Desert Diamonds
In the 1960s, five men who defined cool took Las Vegas and Palm Springs by storm. The Rat Pack's Frankie, Sammy, Joey, Dean and Peter...
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Snow Hope
Let's just say it: The 2012 ski season was crap. Ski resorts across the country received some of their smallest amounts of snowfall in recent...
