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  • Sissy Fuss

    A freak and a sissy. Not to mention an orphan and, most challenging, a Southerner. Such was the childhood of Kevin Sessums, best known for...

  • Talking About Silence

    It is perhaps the quietest day of the school year: The Day of Silence, a national effort in which students at high schools, colleges and...

  • Local Briefs

    Gay Men's Chorus appoints new E.D. Robert Johnson has been playing the piano since he was 9 years old. Now 31, Johnson, a member and...

  • Campus Pride

    You needn't enroll in a class at Northern Virginia's George Mason University to learn about the various activists, popular artists, scientists and authors who have...

  • Defeated Bill

    The House Judiciary Committee voted 12-8 against Del. Don Dwyer's (R-Anne Arundel) proposed amendment that would ban marriage rights for same-sex couples in the state...

  • Cybill Rights

    How can you not love Cybill Shepherd? From her stunning on-screen debut as the sexually manipulative Jacy Farrow in 1971's The Last Picture Show to...

  • Revealing struggles

    Dilcia Molina is not a criminal. Yet in Honduras, where she was born and raised, the 42-year-old lesbian and mother of two says she was...

  • D.C. Marriage 101

    Did you know that the District of Columbia now ranks sixth in the nation (as compared with states) in legal protections for same-sex couples? This...

  • Local News Briefs

    Virginia Legislative Session wraps Sarah Gustafson, president of Equality Fairfax, says she is ''pleased'' with the outcome of Virginia's 2007 legislative session, which convened Jan....

  • State of the Movement

    Nearly 100 people gathered at the Human Rights Campaign's headquarters on Tuesday, Feb. 20, for the D.C. Chapter of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists...

  • Last minute break

    The answer was in his wallet all along. And when Howard Daniel stumbled upon on the business card of Steven S. Smith in November 2006,...

  • OHR Head Speaks to Stein Democrats

    Gustavo F. Velasquez, recently confirmed director of the D.C. Office of Human Rights, spoke at the regular monthly meeting of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club...

  • Gays Win Some, Lose Some in Virginia Legislature

    A bill that ensures hospital-visitation rights for same-gender couples in Virginia has passed the House of Delegates by a unanimous vote, and will be voted...

  • Maryland Lobby Day

    At first glance, there may seem to be a romantic subtext to scheduling the annual Equality Maryland Lobby Day -- for the past several years...

  • That '70s Show

    Abe Lincoln would be proud. Gazing out over the stage of Ford's Theatre, our 16th president might be pleased as punch to witness the late...