News + Politics
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HAA calling for HIV/AIDS listings
The Department of Health's HIV/AIDS Administration (HAA) is currently preparing an updated version of its free ''Directory of HIV/AIDS Services in the District of Columbia,''...
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Crawling for Kids
The Youth Pride Alliance's ''Fall Crawl,'' scheduled for 3 to 7 p.m., on Saturday, Oct. 20, hitting a number of venues on 17th Street in...
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Out On the Web
There's not exactly a ''main event'' on National Coming Out Day. Mark Shields, the 30-year-old Logan Circle resident, who directs the D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign's...
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One Stroke at a Time
There are plenty of sports clubs in the D.C. area catering to the gay crowd -- from softball to running to biking to ultimate Frisbee....
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Last Word
''It is an absolutely unfair burden. It is a burden no one else is asked to bear, and it is something I will not do.''...
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Dr. Discrimination
While presenting her testimony to the Montgomery County Council Tuesday, Oct. 2, against the passage of a bill that would protect transgender people by adding...
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Mouse Trap
From violence, to dilapidated schools, to alarming HIV-infection rates, Washington is not necessarily the easiest place to be a kid. These understood realities of the...
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Last Word
''Moving forward on this bill now will also better serve the ultimate goal of including people who are transgender, than simply accepting total defeat...
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HRC honors GLLU
The Human Rights Campaign is scheduled to recognize the efforts of Washington's Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU), on Friday, Oct. 5, at the Washington...
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Georgetown Suspect Arrested
Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier announced Thursday, Sept. 27, that Philip Anderton Cooney has been arrested and charged with simple assault, following a Sept. 9...
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Suspected Shooter Surrenders
A six-day search for 34-year-old Raina Johnson, suspected of shooting a former domestic partner in the neck, came to an end Oct. 1 when she...
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Filling the Vaccine Vacancy
September ended with some discouraging news in the effort to make a vaccine against HIV. Pharmaceutical giant Merck announced it was halting its large-scale clinical...
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Celebrating Growth
True to its title, the Mautner Project's annual gala dinner and auction is all about ''Love, Strength and Hope.'' ''It's really a time for us...
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Call to Arms
It was a different Army when Aubrey Sarvis served for just over three years in the mid-Sixties, a portion of that time in Vietnam. And...
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Mean Streets
It's been three years since the brutal shooting death of Adrian Alstad, the popular gay waiter at Annie's Paramount Steakhouse, and the string of violent...
