News + Politics
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Fun in the Sun
It was 98 degrees in New York today, one of the hottest days we've had all year. Several businesses have been distributing donated bottled water...
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Method Man
The stretch of 17th Street -- roughly between P and R streets NW -- is one of the district's foremost gay villages. It hosts the...
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Age Rage
This wasn't supposed to happen. Well, it was supposed to happen, really -- I never hoped to not make it to 35. But as far...
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The Heat Is On
As the saying goes, if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. But when...
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Family Affair
The big picture is a family portrait. It's a picture of the African-American community coming together to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Million Man...
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Losing Sight of Freedom
Following the recent celebration of our 30th Capital Pride, it's worth reflecting how far we've come and at what cost. In 1975, ''gay liberation'' activists...
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Human Rights Revisited
To bolster the nearly 30-year-old D.C. Human Rights Act's protections for transgender people in the district, council members Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) and Vincent Orange...
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A Phoenix from the Flames
This time last year, LLEGÓ was suffering ill health. That this organization -- the sole national organization representing the LGBT Latino/a community exclusively -- would...
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The Cat's Meow
Let's say you are 18, almost 19, living by yourself for the first time. You're doing an internship in a small Ohio town and you...
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Trainspotting
I'm on an Amtrak train heading north from New York City to Boston, and normally I'd feel guilty about spending the extra money for an...
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New STD Fee
As part of an ongoing effort to achieve fiscal stability, the Whitman-Walker Clinic has announced a new $25 fee for all clients of the Gay...
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Graham Goes Smoke-free
During a Ward 1 town-hall meeting Thursday, June 9, Councilmember Jim Graham publicly offered his support to expanding the city's smoke-free workplace laws to include...
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Flames of Passion
Everyone's heard of climbing a stairway to heaven. But last weekend, one local recreational sex venue unintentionally offered a stairway to a little slice of...
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Traffic Jam
This year's annual Capital Pride Parade was a larger event than in the past, with an extended route that stretched from the far edge of...
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Financial Woes Increase at Whitman-Walker
In a move that sent ripples through both the Washington metropolitan HIV/AIDS service network and the gay and lesbian community, Whitman-Walker Clinic announced major restructuring...
