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  • Coverboy: Circon

    This week's Coverboy was born in Istanbul and raised in Pennsylvania, but it was an internship in arts management that first attracted Circon to the...

  • Carnival links drag to inappropriate behavior

    UPDATE: Carnival apologizes for ‘miscommunication’ surrounding drag cruise An eight-day cruise with nearly 40 stars of RuPaul’s Drag Race seems like it should be a...

  • Up Town

    In the early '90s, nationally recognized club singers, from Crystal Waters to CeCe Peniston, were the chief draw for gay nightclubs. Soon after, DJs became...

  • Bunny Business

    ''I have no idea what hatefulness is in store,'' Lady Bunny says. ''But all I have to do is slap my thigh and laugh and...

  • Needles and Pins

    It's only natural that a drag queen named Sharon Needles would have pointed things to say, even about herself. But it's still shocking she hits...

  • The Attractions of Pride

    ''People have told me that they feel empowered, that my songs are so empowering,'' singer Deborah Cox told Metro Weekly in 2010. ''Even though some...

  • To Serve, with Love

    ''I collect them like baseball cards – I know all their names, I know their styles,'' teases Sonya Boring. She's talking about drag queens. ''I'm...

  • Coverboy: Andrew

    Andrew must have been fated to be in the spotlight. The 24-year-old aspiring opera singer started out as a math major in college, but switched...

  • Unchained Arias

    Joey Arias is one strange fruit. That's true not just because the gay male performance artist gained some fame a couple decades ago singing –...

  • Coverboy: Long

    When he was 15, moving to the U.S. from Vietnam, Long says it was the equivalent of winning a Wonka-esque golden ticket. But the reality...

  • Town and Gown

    One day, maybe D.C. will have another homegrown contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race. But for now, every weekend Town features Miss Tatiana, season two's third...

  • Madonna’s Superbowl half-time has fans and critics all a Twitter [video]

    Madonna‘s Superbowl Half-Time Show was all the rage on Twitter and Facebook Sunday night. Opening with her gay dance anthem “Vogue,” Madonna covered a number...

  • Cruz Control

    ''I won't be specific,'' Wilson Cruz says, ''but there's a show on television right now, a fairly new show, that wanted me to come in...

  • Pope jabs at gay marriage with “threatens human dignity” speech? Gingrich’s got his back

    The ruler of the Vatican City State, Joseph Ratzinger (aka Pope Benedict XVI), appears to have taken another antagonistic swipe at the increasing acceptance of...

  • Outspoken #43 – Drag Band [video]

    In this installment of Outspoken, Ebone Bell heads over to Omega for the DC Different Drummers amateur drag event, ''DCDD Does Drag, Too'' on Sunday,...