News + Politics
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Birds and Bees
The mood in the basement ballroom of the downtown JW Marriott seemed fairly sedate Sunday afternoon, July 15, as Joan Roughgarden of Stanford Univesity presented...
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Wondering About 'Down Under'
Although the District has, effectively, erased nude-male dancing venues off the city's nightlife map in favor of a baseball stadium, adult entertainment of a female...
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Exposing the ''Experts''
Here in Washington, being publicly discredited is no bar to employment for the industrious and well-connected. If you are sufficiently shameless, being a disgraced former...
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Permanent Tribute
Those volunteers and caregivers who have responded to the calls of the HIV/AIDS crisis will soon be getting a permanent tribute. On July 14, the...
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Public Opinion
The Metropolitan Police Department is asking Washington's gay community to offer input before finalizing any plans to ''enhance'' access to all of its liaison units,...
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Seeing the 'T' in GLBT
If you haven't been to Unity Fellowship Church in Northwest in the past two weeks, you might not know that it's Transgender Awareness Month. But...
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Blessing in Disguise
Just a few short weeks ago, Cheryl Spector was devastated when her apartment caught fire and destroyed some of the hundreds of videotapes, photographs and...
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Arc of Progress
I spent last Saturday in a video-watching marathon with Noah's Arc, the black gay dramedy that ran for two seasons on the Logo channel. I...
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Safety first
High school may be over for recent graduate Robin Greenwood, a lesbian from Dearborn, Mich., but she's not going to write off the four years...
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Wrapping up GLLU's loose ends
It was not a technical error. Washington's Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit's volunteer-operated Web site, www.gllu.org, was intentionally taken down for three days last week....
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The Rainbow Samaritan
The pleas for pink dollars are never ending, an annoying byproduct of the increasingly well-oiled machine of GLBT politicking. Whether it's to fight HIV/AIDS, gain...
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Premature Closing
Bob Siegel, owner of the recently opened 2120 venue at 2120 West Virginia Ave. NE, closed the adult theater Tuesday morning, June 26, in compliance...
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Raising the Bar
Even as a child, Melvin White showed interest in the law as an avid fan of TV courtroom dramas such as Perry Mason. ''I was...
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A 'Fix-It' Job at D.C. Fire Department
While attending college, Sgt. J.B. Wallace never intended to become a paramedic. It was only after she earned a bachelor of science in psychology and...
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Looking Back on Pride
The storm clouds remained at bay and the pavement never made it to the melting point. It's a tried and true formula for a perfect...
