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  • Courting Greatness

    In a world where gay professional sports icons are few and far between, Martina Navratilova definitely stands out. But even if the pro playing fields...

  • Chipping In

    One 21st birthday that's not being celebrated in a bar will be Saturday, Oct. 6, as Whitman-Walker Clinic presents its annual AIDS Walk Washington. Instead,...

  • Virginia Villages

    DRIVE WESTWARD OUT of Washington, and you'll most likely come to a fork. Take the high road -- the Dulles Toll Road -- and you'll...

  • Boys and Balls

    As summer-camp memories go, mine are scant. I've settled for the vicarious pleasure of listening to my gay pal, Mike, share his memories of charmed...

  • Witch Slapped

    It was probably one of those ideas followed by the exclamation, ''That's so crazy it just might work!'' Don't simply create a stage version of...

  • Crosscurrents in 2008

    Gore Vidal once said that God is a convenient fiction. The same can be said of ''gay community.'' Despite the common tendency to generalize based...

  • Cheers and Tears for Hattoy

    In what may have been exactly the sort of politically star-studded event the recently deceased Bob Hattoy would have appreciated -- and, some would argue,...

  • 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...

  • Spreading the Word

    Pam Grier enjoys being something you don't expect. She is, after all, the iconic star of such '70s blaxploitation action classics as Coffy and Foxy...

  • Shining in the Spotlight

    The spotlight that usually shines on Doug Spearman, whose roles include playing Chance on Logo's Noah's Arc, is the kind associated with Hollywood glitz. But...

  • A New Blow to DADT

    Bit by bit, support for the military's ban on openly gay service members is crumbling. In a recent and important op-ed in the New York...

  • Soul Searching

    ''Back away from the blog.'' That's hard for Andrew Sullivan to do, even if his partner and fiancé is the one asking him to do...

  • From the Bottom Up

    At the intersection of P and Ninth streets NW, there is evidence that the gay gentrification of Logan Circle may be creeping ever eastward. On...

  • El Calentito

    Reel Affirmations 2006 Review by Nancy Legato Rating: (4 out of 5) Wednesday, 10/18/2006, 9:00 PM Feature presentation, $9 at Landmark's E Street Cinema Spanish with English subtitle

  • State of Health

    Reel Affirmations 2006 Review by Sean Bugg Rating: (4 out of 5) Saturday, 10/14/2006, 1:00 PM Shorts presentation, $9 at Goethe Institut Inter Nationes A LESSON LEARNED may...