News + Politics
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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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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...
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Correction
The March 29, 2007, story ''The Beat Goes On,'' incorrectly referred to Richard Rosendall's statement as ''an open letter.'' The statement was oral testimony on...
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Departing Mautner
After nearly eight years heading the nation's largest lesbian health organization, Kathleen DeBold announced her resignation from the Mautner Project just four months after going...
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Campus Pride
You needn't enroll in a class at Northern Virginia's George Mason University to learn about the various activists, popular artists, scientists and authors who have...
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Screening for Staff
It's not always easy to see the problems other people face. For gays and lesbians who were born in the United States, for example, it...
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Rolling Along
Hundreds of families are expected to gather on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday, April 9, for the annual Easter Egg Roll,...
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Defeated Bill
The House Judiciary Committee voted 12-8 against Del. Don Dwyer's (R-Anne Arundel) proposed amendment that would ban marriage rights for same-sex couples in the state...
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Athletic Support
Greg Campbell was attending a gay-straight alliance meeting at Wakefield High School in Arlington, where he teaches math and coaches swimming, when he came to...
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Tackling Tomorrow's Taxes
With the deadline for individual income-tax returns little more than two weeks away, storefronts are teeming with signs and banners touting ''instant'' tax refunds, some...
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The Beat Goes On
Despite some recent reports, Lieutenant Alberto Jova, the gay assistant to Washington's interim Police Chief Cathy Lanier, says the chief has no intentions of removing...
