News + Politics
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Cheers and Tears for Hattoy
In what may have been exactly the sort of politically star-studded event the recently deceased Bob Hattoy would have appreciated -- and, some would argue,...
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Honor Roll
Lieutenant Alberto Jova, and several other representatives from the Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU) of the Metropolitan Police Department were all present to accept...
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Leadership changes
Tasha Hill was already on her way to Washington from Colorado before accepting a position as the new executive director of the Sexual Minority Youth...
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Murderer sentenced to 26 years
There was no seat to be found on Friday morning in Courtroom 111 at the D.C. Superior Court, as Preston Randolph Logan awaited his sentence...
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Strike Two
The ongoing saga that began roughly a year ago with the closing of D.C.'s gay nude-dancing -- and drinking -- venues in order to transform...
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Combating Hate Crimes
On March 14, 2007, a 25-year-old gay man named Ryan Keith Skipper was murdered in Polk County, Fla. He was stabbed 20 times in what...
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Correction
In the April 12 issue of Metro Weekly, District II Board of Education candidate Sekou Biddle was reported to have secured the Gertrude Stein Democratic...
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Revising Treatments
From ''super strains'' of HIV, to exotic and resistant forms of chlamydia, news of sexually related bugs, germs and microbes is certain to prick up...
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Buying Time
It's been two months since Preston Randolph Logan pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, but it will be at least one more week before he receives...
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A Family Affair
''Men have seeds, and women have eggs... and if two women fall in love and want to have a baby together, they need a seed.''...
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Acknowledging Accomplishment
Washington is a city bursting at the seams with history, though gay history doesn't often come to mind. New York trumps other locales with the...
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Local Briefs
Gay Men's Chorus appoints new E.D. Robert Johnson has been playing the piano since he was 9 years old. Now 31, Johnson, a member and...
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Gays Groups Evaluate May 1 Candidates
Ahead of the May 1 special election for D.C. City Council seats from Wards 4 and 7, as well as a Board of Education seat...
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Talking About Silence
It is perhaps the quietest day of the school year: The Day of Silence, a national effort in which students at high schools, colleges and...
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Policing the Police
Relations between D.C.'s gay community and the police have come a long way in the past 50 years. Where vice cops once routinely entrapped gay...
