News + Politics
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Community Connectors
A week's worth of Capital Pride events may be synonymous with outward expressions of celebration. The week began, however, with a chance to pause for...
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AIDS at 25
''I was sitting in my office at NIH reading the article on five gay men in Los Angeles who presented with pneumocystis pneumonia, and felt...
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Life After Meth
When five o'clock arrived on Friday afternoon, my 64-hour vacation began. First priority: to hit the Internet for a hot guy to host. Perhaps 12...
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Making a Splash
The D.C. Strokes seems the very embodiment of the ''work hard, play hard'' ethos. It's Friday night at Titan, and a few topless, chiseled, Lycra-panted...
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Refusing to Run
Since its founding in 2004, the National Black Justice Coalition, the national organization dedicated exclusively to advocating on behalf of the African-American GLBT community, has...
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Fighting Back
It's possible, perhaps even likely, that when he walked into the room, Wayne was as surprised to see me as I was upon seeing him....
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Taking the Lead
While I appreciate Will O'Bryan covering the GLBT Mayoral Forum I would have appreciated even more if he was clear about the...
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Dedicated to D.C.
During a town-hall forum focused on the state of the black GLBT community in Washington held earlier this month, a member of the audience asked...
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Friendly Fire
In the style sections of more than one newspaper, I've seen features on how to divorce a friend. These articles usually ooze with self-congratulation over...
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Trans Regs Advance
The D.C. Commission on Human Rights, the city's Office of Human Rights entity with authority over private sector human-rights complaints, took a step May 11...
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Honored Quartet
For 25 years, the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C. (GMCW) has been fulfilling a mission ''to entertain through excellent musical performance, to affirm the...
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Where's the wedding?
The Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, which opposes gay marriage, has just issued a new report finding that relatively few gay couples are getting...
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Rough and Tumble
The tumbleweed, it turned out, was a harbinger. I was a passenger in a car traveling down a small highway in Idaho and the tumbleweed...
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Task Force Titans
From enthusiastic political polemics to impassioned calls for GLBT activism to make its home both in the city and on the range, the stage at...
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Pink Politicking
Five of the district's front-running Democratic mayoral hopefuls entered the rainbow arena Monday night for a political forum that included some verbal fireworks, a literal...
