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  • No Ifs, Ands or Butts

    By on October 13, 2004

    Washington's newest local celebrity is Mary. She's the central figure in a new campaign aimed at smokers who are trying to kick the habit. Ads...

  • Pink Bunny

    By on October 13, 2004

    My partner and I, the good aunts that we are, recently agreed to host two of our little nieces overnight while their parents took a...

  • Outside the Box

    By on October 6, 2004

    Last night I got dumped by my loft. My one, true loft. The loft of my life. I was in Massachusetts for the weekend, inhaling...

  • A Rodeo Hate Crime

    By on October 6, 2004

    Hyper-macho men chase, harass, and brutalize terrified victims. They do it simply for their own amusement, or because they are addicted to the rush of...

  • Adult Zone Shut Out

    By on October 6, 2004

    When it comes to entertainment, Americans look to a variety of sources. Those who live in the Washington area and have an affinity for baseball...

  • This Man's Army

    By on September 29, 2004

    By 71, a thoughtful person should reach a point where he has learned a thing or two. One thing Keith Kerr has learned is that...

  • Booby-Gazing

    By on September 22, 2004

    It felt so stereotypically lesbian: My partner and I saved our money, conspired with a travel company, got our documents in order, wrote some big...

  • 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Goes to War

    By on September 22, 2004

    Today, the Department of Defense can offer a count showing that military operations related to invading Afghanistan and Iraq -- operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi...

  • Grand Old Protestors

    By on September 15, 2004

    There's been a lot of talk about elderly protesters lately. Women, specifically. From Kansas. Midwestern, blue-rinsed, female Medicare-recipients marching with U.N. flags. It's a hot...

  • Setting the Course

    By on September 15, 2004

    Boston may have gotten the Democrats, and New York the Republicans, but Washington hosted a major political conference of its own last weekend as the...

  • An Office of One's Own

    By on September 15, 2004

    Wednesday, Sept. 8, was a gray day in Washington. Among Mayor Anthony Williams's announcements at that day's routine press briefing were what flood preparations the...

  • Politics of Interpretation

    By on September 8, 2004

    Same-sex marriage has taken center stage in the 2004 presidential election. The Republican effort to amend the Constitution to prevent same-sex marriage from taking root...

  • Charmed, I'm Sure

    By on September 1, 2004

    It's that time of year: I make my annual trek to Somewhere in the Heartland -- the exact destination varies each year -- and I...

  • A Changing Rehoboth

    By on September 1, 2004

    When I tell anyone not from the mid-Atlantic region that I vacation and plan to retire in Delaware, the response is usually, ''Why?'' My two...

  • Fun in the Sun

    By on August 25, 2004

    One day in early June, I was sitting on one of the West Side piers, and summer felt like a conductor's hands poised in mid-air...