News + Politics
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HRC vs. MAM
So many parties, so little time. It's a view easily taken by revelers this fall as two mainstays of the gay social calendar -- the...
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Sidewalk Stories
Trio restaurant is a venerable Dupont Circle institution, in some ways, perhaps, even more important to the neighborhood than the namesake fountain. From its corner...
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Primary Pains
To paraphrase a line from the classic Star Trek episode, ''The Trouble with Tribbles,'' one little robocall is not dangerous! Unfortunately, of course, we were...
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Back on the Saddle
At first I thought it was old-fashioned joking around: I agreed that next July, I would ride a bicycle across the state of Iowa --...
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Youthful Magic Moments
My family looks great when we're young. I mean, we look good older, too -- my mom, nearing 60, routinely gets mistaken for 10 years...
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Rove's Family History
Did political mastermind Karl Rove -- who as President Bush's top political aide helped craft campaign strategies using same-sex marriage as a homophobic political weapon...
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Queer Campuses
Billing itself as ''the first and only guide for LGBT students and their families on finding the right college,'' Alyson Books last month released The...
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A Moral Movement
This past Valentine's Day, I had dinner with someone I had been seeing for a little more than two weeks. For a young man, my...
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Gay Dems Honor Own
The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the city's primary organization for GLBT Democrats, has chosen four recipients for its 30th Anniversary Leadership Awards. Eric Stern, former...
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Broncs, Boots and Beats
In these parts, the start of the Atlantic hurricane season means more than flash flooding and power outages. It means it's time for another Atlantic...
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Historic Record
Franklin Kameny was, as they say, a pioneer of the early days of the modern gay civil rights movement. Before even the 1969 Stonewall riot...
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Richmond in the Pink
With a vote on a gay marriage amendment looming, and other GLBT issues remaining at the fore of Virginia politics, The Pink Party this Labor...
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Sister Schism
Since 1976, women have been gathering in the wilds of Michigan, creating a space that, say attendees and organizers, is at once political, liberating, nurturing,...
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Alternative Lifestyle
One of my earliest lessons about homeownership in Takoma Park -- a certified Hippie Town -- was that gas-powered lawn mowers are, like, so uncool....
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Murder in Dupont
The beginning and ending of Robert Wone's fatal last night are clear -- it's the unknown story of how and why he was murdered that...
