News + Politics
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Before He Can Marry
Forty years ago this week, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote in Loving v. Virginia, ''The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of...
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Diving for Dollars
Lambda Divers, a not-for-profit social organization that works to promote scuba diving among the gay community, donated a total of $5,700 to three organizations that...
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'Raw' Deal
Sometimes it's not the four-letter words that cause a commotion. Sometimes it only takes three: r-a-w. That's the word that rankled some local sensibilities when...
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Up in Flames
A video archive documenting more than 21 years of Washington's GLBT community was destroyed on Wednesday, June 6, when the apartment complex it was stored...
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Rowing Your Boats
Continuing to grow the city's annual Stonewall Regatta, the local GLBT rowing club, D.C. Strokes, on June 2 offered the 14th regatta with 22 rowing...
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Granting Entry
Brother Help Thyself (BHT) announced on June 2 that it has begun taking applications for grants from organizations that serve the GLBT and HIV/AIDS communities...
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Death in the Family
Richard Rausch will be noticeably missing at this year's Capital Pride festival. In previous years, Rausch, a founding member of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club...
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Frank's Day
To mark two occasions -- the District's 2007 Capital Pride week and the 50-year anniversary of Frank Kameny's entry into the public fight for gay...
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Building Bridges
''Building a bridge to a brighter future'' was the theme as a panel of Washington-area GLBT leaders took the stage at Studio Theatre to discuss...
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Relocation Reloaded
Councilmember Jim Graham's (D-Ward 1) legislation to help nude-dancing, liquor-licensed venues displaced by they city's eminent-domain move to claim District land for a new baseball...
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Gay in Court
Attorneys from GAYLAW, a local organization of GLBT attorneys, made a bit of history Tuesday morning, as they were sworn-in to the Bar of the...
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Marching Forward
There's something appropriate about all the uncertainty that surrounds this year's Dyke March. Just a few weeks ago, local folk singer Mara Levi found out...
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A Pride Trans-formation
With new protections for transgender people going into effect in October 2006, Washington has the distinction of leading the country in protecting the transgender community...
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Debate Heats Up
For those who could not make it to the May 16 town-hall meeting called by Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. (D-Ward 5), at Bethesda Baptist Church...
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Power in numbers
About 100 people gathered at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Southwest Washington Thursday, May 17, for D.C. Fights Back's HIV/AIDS Speak Out. The goal: Start...
