News + Politics
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From D.C., with Love
Romantic relationships are often fraught with pitfalls and puzzlement -- gay relationships often more so, given social stigmas and bureaucratic obstacles. Sometimes, the added difficulties...
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Republican Soul Searching
Being a Republican and a gay-rights advocate is one thing. But being a pro-gay Republican and a devoted Catholic? That might be pushing it. Leave...
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Transgender Tragedies
In the past decade in Washington seven people were murdered, or died, as a result of someone else's wrongdoing because they were transgender. And those...
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Breaking Point
For the past few years, the world's 70 million Anglicans -- better known in the United States as Episcopalians -- have been grappling with a...
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Coffee Talk
Grant P. Thompson is not HIV-positive. But 20 years ago, everyone in the gay community -- positive or negative -- was affected by the burgeoning...
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A Canadian Lesson
The new Conservative government in Canada has lost its promised attempt to repeal same-sex marriage in that country. The vote in Canada's Parliament was even...
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A Life Remembered
It's been more than a decade since Tyra Hunter, following a car crash, died on a street in Southeast D.C. But her story has lived...
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Change at BHT
Several months from now you may not find Larry Stansbury of Brother Help Thyself working from his office on 14th Street NW. You may not...
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Fenty Moves Forward
Democratic Mayor-elect Adrian Fenty won't take office until Jan. 2, but his transition machine has been churning efficiently for weeks. Several cabinet-level appointments have been...
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Unfettered Access
Trey Watkins is modest. The second-year, gay grad student at George Washington University's School of Public Health is quick to point out that he's not...
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Ambling Along
I've never really been to church before. My family always went skiing instead. I grew up in northern Massachusetts, not far from the White Mountain...
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Correction
''One More Step: Gay marriage gets its day in Maryland's high court,'' (12/7) incorrectly reported that 17 people -- one widower and eight couples --...
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Labor Pains
It's sort of official: Mary Cheney, the vice president's lesbian daughter, and partner Heather Poe are going to have a baby. In Virginia. The pregnancy,...
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Tina Time
A full spectrum of anti-crystal-meth groups, from the grassroots on up, turned out at Whitman-Walker Clinic for a local recognition of National Methamphetamine Awareness Day,...
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A Night of Vigilance
''There is a killer on the loose.'' That was the message from Rev. Dyan Abena McCray at the World AIDS Day Candlelight Vigil at Freedom...
