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  • Celebrating a Movement

    ''I'll never forget this moment the rest of my life,'' a beaming RuPaul shouted last Sunday from the Capital Pride main stage. With the Capitol...

  • Pro-Gay, Pro-Choice

    As night fell on May 31, the candlelight vigils around the country for the murdered Dr. George Tiller included one at Dupont Circle. Several dozen...

  • Pumped for Pride

    Here's a tidbit that might surprise you: The person RuPaul admires most is... Judge Judy. ''I love her!'' exclaims the performer who skyrocketed to national...

  • Referendum Rumble

    The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics this morning, Wednesday, June 10, heard arguments from both sides in a contentious fight regarding recent legislation to...

  • Festival Booths and Vendors

    (As of May 26, 2009. Subject to Change) ACE Adventure Resort ACLU of the National Capital Area ADMC Realty Group Adventuring Affirmation GLBT Mormons, Washington...

  • 2009 Capital Pride Parade Contingents

    Dupont Circle, 17th Street, and P Street Saturday, June 13, rain or shine Stepoff is 6:30 p.m. at 23rd & P Sts. NW (As of...

  • Community Partners

    As Capital Pride -- now marking its 34th year -- evolves, it has gone from the greenest of grassroots celebrations in a schoolyard to local...

  • Divine Intervention

    When it comes to marriage equality, the conventional wisdom is that God is on the side of those opposed, that homophobic clergy are the rule...

  • Three of a Kind

    Pride in Washington is not just a weekend affair. Everyone knows the big Capital Pride Parade and Festival -- June 13 and 14, respectively, along...

  • Captive Audience

    On Sunday evening of DC Black Pride weekend, African-American Collective Theater (ACT) presented a sneak peek at Play Ball, a new play by director/writer Alan...

  • 2009 Black Pride Festival Vendors

    Sunday, May 24, 2998 LOVE Nightclub 1350 Okie St. NE Noon to 6 pm $10 Capital Area gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Carl Vogel...

  • Woman on the Verge

    When the June/July issue of The Advocate magazine featured ''Forty under 40,'' an exhaustive list of young GLBT people, running through the worlds of business,...

  • Marriage Matters

    The setting was nearly divine, as marriage-equality activists gathered in a hall of All Souls Church, Unitarian, in Columbia Heights. The sky turned to twilight...

  • GLOV Gears Up

    Five months have passed since Pedro Martins' gay twin brother, Durval Martins, was shot and killed at the corner of 11th and Q Streets NW...

  • Mayor Signs for Marriage

    Mayor Adrian Fenty signed legislation on Wednesday, May 6, requiring D.C. to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions. Mafara Hobson, Fenty's director of communications,...