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  • State of Mind

    By on May 17, 2006

    It's been a busy a time in Maryland. And that suits Dan Furmansky just fine. The 32-year-old executive director of Equality Maryland, the state's most...

  • Secret Service

    By on May 10, 2006

    In a time of war, a good man is hard to find. Which makes it all the more frustrating that the U.S. military continues to...

  • Pink Politicking

    By on May 10, 2006

    Five of the district's front-running Democratic mayoral hopefuls entered the rainbow arena Monday night for a political forum that included some verbal fireworks, a literal...

  • Task Force Titans

    By on May 10, 2006

    From enthusiastic political polemics to impassioned calls for GLBT activism to make its home both in the city and on the range, the stage at...

  • Punky Brew

    By on May 3, 2006

    ''For all my life,'' Ariel Aparicio sings in a raspy voice, ''I wanted to be in a cool as fuck band.'' He's now fulfilled that...

  • The Kids Are Not Alright

    By on April 12, 2006

    There was a full house of about 150 people in the Human Rights Campaign's Equality Forum space April 5. It was a ''who's who'' of...

  • Gay Old Timers

    By on April 5, 2006

    Rainbow Retirement Sitting at the southern tip of the mouth of Tampa Bay, there is a spot akin to somewhere over the rainbow. It's here,...

  • Joe Solmonese

    By on March 15, 2006

    ''This weekend is all about the election.'' As almost 200 people are streaming into D.C. for the Human Rights Campaign's annual spring meeting, Joe Solmonese...

  • Learning Lessons

    By on March 8, 2006

    Though much will be made of it, the federal Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) is unlikely to be the most important story of the marriage fight...

  • Run baby, run!

    By on March 1, 2006

    Running laps around the football field in high school phys. ed. was just not for me. I did it because it was required and I...

  • Losing an Ally

    By on February 15, 2006

    The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated nearly 40 years ago, is a global icon for civil rights and social justice. In the years since...

  • Fighting the Holy War

    By on February 1, 2006

    Given the poll-driven pieties of so many politicians, it is hard to imagine a public figure quoting Christ's admonition in Matthew Chapter 6 against making...

  • Homefront

    By on January 4, 2006

    Living Check to Check IN ONE OF THE MOST striking moments of 2005, Whitman-Walker Clinic announced in May that it would be unable to meet...

  • Health Matters

    By on January 4, 2006

    Crystalization CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE had D.C.'s gay community buzzing in 2005, but not in the usual way. In March, the D.C.-based National Coalition for LGBT Health...

  • Reticent and Respected

    By on December 21, 2005

    Brian A. Johnson may not be a big name in politics. To many, he may not be a big name at all. But if you...