Lawrence Webb made history this month. May 6 saw several elections across Virginia, including the race for three seats on the Falls Church City Council....
Out2Paddle The 2008 Washington, D.C., Dragon Boat Festival, originally slated to take place May 17-18 at the Georgetown/Kennedy Center Waterfront, has been postponed to mid-June,...
It's Mother's Day and, as usual, I'm prepared. The tulips I ordered so many days ago arrived right on time on Mother's Day Eve, as...
“There’s political support for this educational strategy. It’s the best thing that’s happened to us…. is helping us a lot … not only because...
“It’s an honor to serve a sentence for something that may help improve our community, that may help us take further steps on the road...
“This police officer, upon seeing my boyfriend and I kiss, walked up to me, grabbed my arm and told me that I was going to...
“I fought so hard for Danny and David. And I stood my ground. I said, This kid is needed – especially Danny- because he is...
“Everyone knows. It is not a secret in that sense. It is just that people do not talk about what goes on in private and...
“Representing a sexual minority, I will make sure the new constitution protects sexual groups, people with disabilities, small indigenous casts and others.” — Sunil Babu...
“To use this word and to get it imposed internationally constitutes a rape of our historic identity and our human rights.” –Charges from a legal...
“In this so-called liberal industry, no one has the guts to come out because of the box office, but someone has to be first in...
“I am not angry at gay men. But, I am against what they’re actually doing.”— Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales, head of Manila’s Roman Catholic Church, on...
Hanging around my father's auto-body shop during my summer vacations wasn't exactly the same as hanging out with longshoremen or sailors, but I still learned...
The recent suicide of D.C. Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who faced a prison sentence for doing something that harmed no one, raises a question unrelated...
Local transgenders, Latinos, youths and sex workers have all been victims of several human-rights violations at the hands of police, claims a recent study conducted...