News + Politics
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Let Catholics Discriminate
As laws protecting gay Americans from discrimination proliferate, they increasingly conflict with important liberties. The latest example of this clash comes from Massachusetts, where the...
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Upping the Ante
I was in Spanish class when the note came. It was a small piece of memo pad paper with an office staffer's handwriting on it....
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Log Cabin's Councillor
In the middle of March, new members were sworn-in for the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA). Considering the epidemic's disproportionate infection rate in the...
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Sudden Departure
Whenever my phone rings and I see my parents' number in the little window, my first thought is always that my grandmother died. She's very...
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Anniversary Gift
The Center, ''home for GLBT in metro D.C.,'' was counting its blessings Tuesday, March 14, in the company of about 40 well-wishers. The rough count,...
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Last Dance
The party at VelvetNation is coming to an end, promoters announced Wednesday, March 22. The biggest ongoing, weekly gay bash in D.C. will be going...
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Oldham Redux
He may not be a native son, but New York native Frank J. Oldham Jr. is no stranger to D.C. In the early '90s, he...
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FAIR's Fair?
Much of the reaction to the Supreme Court's 8-0 decision in Rumsfeld v. FAIR to uphold the Solomon Amendment has been ill-informed. Commentators, especially in...
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PSA tackles ''PNP''
Crystal methamphetamine has plagued the local gay community, with addiction to the drug growing steadily during the past five years, according to public health officials....
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Healthy Dialogue
As part of National LGBT Health Awareness Week, Whitman-Walker Clinic on Tuesday night presented a public forum on gay health. ''It's a little smaller crowd...
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Doggie Style
From the start, the dog was unruffled, collected and mature. She quietly waited for her two new owners to stop yelping and jumping on the...
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Learning Lessons
Though much will be made of it, the federal Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) is unlikely to be the most important story of the marriage fight...
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First To Go
Two big steps were made over the weekend toward the transformation of the area of Southeast D.C. that is home to a number of long-time...
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The Cost of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell'
A new study from the University of California estimates the financial costs of the military's ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy, under which more than 10,000...
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Run baby, run!
Running laps around the football field in high school phys. ed. was just not for me. I did it because it was required and I...
