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  • The Heat Is On

    By on July 27, 2005

    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...

  • Family Affair

    By on July 20, 2005

    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...

  • Losing Sight of Freedom

    By on July 13, 2005

    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...

  • Human Rights Revisited

    By on July 13, 2005

    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...

  • A Phoenix from the Flames

    By on July 13, 2005

    This time last year, LLEGÓ was suffering ill health. That this organization -- the sole national organization representing the LGBT Latino/a community exclusively -- would...

  • The Cat's Meow

    By on July 6, 2005

    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...

  • Trainspotting

    By on June 29, 2005

    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...

  • New STD Fee

    By on June 29, 2005

    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...

  • Graham Goes Smoke-free

    By on June 15, 2005

    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...

  • Flames of Passion

    By on June 15, 2005

    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...

  • Traffic Jam

    By on June 15, 2005

    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...

  • Financial Woes Increase at Whitman-Walker

    By on June 8, 2005

    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...

  • Graham Joins Smoke-Free Effort

    By on June 8, 2005

    During a Ward 1 town-hall meeting last night, June 9, Councilmember Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) publicly offered his support to expanding the city's smoke-free workplace...

  • Tending the Grassroots

    By on June 1, 2005

    When the capital-area LGBT community looks for its boogeymen, attention often turns to the Virginia General Assembly, making itself more and more infamous by the...

  • Oh, Brother

    By on May 25, 2005

    A TV, if you want one, comes in basically any size. There is actually such thing as a 72-inch screen TV. Since TV screens are...