News + Politics
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Fantasy Island
My mother's main goal in life is to be warmer. At any given moment, she's devoting a significant portion of mental resources to figuring out...
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Busted!
Among the more scintillating New Year's resolutions I heard this year was one friend's declaration that 2005 is the year of cleavage. While I don't...
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Barriers to Health
Ironically, a few weeks after Melissa Etheridge's breast cancer diagnosis helped put ''a lesbian face'' on cancer, the same-sex marriage backlash as witnessed in the...
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Tsunami Spares Gay Enclave
On Dec. 26, 2003, an earthquake in Bam, Iran, killed nearly 30,000 people. A year later to the day, history made a terrifying encore with...
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Baker Bids Clinic Farewell
After five years at the helm, Cornelius Baker is stepping down as the head of Whitman-Walker Clinic. The Dec. 15 announcement comes not long after...
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You Shouldn't Have
A billionaire talk show host had a psychotic episode on national television, and then everyone got Pontiacs. ''Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car!''...
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Challenging Principals
Minors may not be allowed to vote, but that certainly doesn't allow them to live outside politics. According to a Dec. 9 press release issued...
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Equal Opportunity
Job change is in the air. I know this because I've just given notice at my current place of employment and am poised to start...
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SLDN's Full Court Press
When Monica Hill joined the Air Force in the 1990s, she and her partner thought it was an excellent way to both act on her...
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Shake-Up at HRC
Less than one year after taking the helm, Cheryl Jacques has resigned as the head of the Human Rights Campaign, the organization announced Tuesday evening,...
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Suit Your Shelf
There's something so clean and benign about a Skandia shelving unit that you hardly notice it's a tool of the devil until you assemble it...
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Making the Syphi-list
Recently released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracking sexually transmitted diseases in 2003 does not offer much good news for...
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No Cherry on Top
Four gay and lesbian community groups that were the designated beneficiaries for last spring's Cherry 9 circuit party will not be receiving any Cherry donations...
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First Class
In the coldest stretch of Iowa winter during my last two years of high school, there was a bittersweet part of each day: walking outside...
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Expo Absent
Since the spring of 2001, gay Washingtonians have been greeted by more than cherry blossoms. That's when the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Expo comes...
