News + Politics
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A New Blow to DADT
Bit by bit, support for the military's ban on openly gay service members is crumbling. In a recent and important op-ed in the New York...
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The Invisible Youth
My mother called me the other night looking for answers. A childhood friend of mine had killed herself, and my clearly shaken mother wanted to...
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Back on the Streets
When D.C.'s new chief of police met with supervisors from the city's various police units to discuss plans for a new community policing effort, Sgt....
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Local Briefs
The D.C. Crystal Meth working group will be conducting surveys and outreach efforts in gay bars and clubs Jan. 25 through 27, part of the...
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Changes Ahead
Few clinics offered free services in Washington in 1968, yet that was the year that the Washington Free Clinic credits itself as the first such...
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Missing Arlington man found dead
Michele Anne Riley never had a chance to say goodbye to her brother, Donald Charles Ebe, who vanished nearly three months ago. On Wednesday, authorities...
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Calling All Non-profits
Shortly after joining Whitman-Walker Clinic in July 2006, ReGina Newkirk came to a realization about the annual Capital Pride event: As the new head of...
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Death Strikes in Transgender Community
In the week since news surfaced about the Jan. 3 murder of Grafton Lee Person, a 42-year-old transgender woman known in the community as Diamond...
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Face to Face
Virginia may have passed one of the nation's most restrictive constitutional amendments banning gay marriage and civil unions last November, but that hasn't slowed down...
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Singular Sensation
Couplehood is such a smug thing that when it ends, one of the hardest parts is telling the people you know. My boyfriend Carl and...
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Capital Pride Invites Input
Capital Pride organizers from the Whitman-Walker Clinic are asking nearly every GLBT not-for-profit organization in metropolitan Washington to take part in planning this year's week...
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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...
