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  • Gay Is Good

    Frank Kameny's life in the upper Northwest, Palisades corner of Washington looks quiet enough. The retiree lives in a modest home on a serene, tree-lined...

  • Closed Door for Navy Hopefuls

    Two women were ready to join the Navy on Tuesday, but the Navy wasn't ready for them. Continuing a 30-city campaign of protest against the...

  • Stage and Theater

    ACTORS' THEATRE OF WASHINGTON 202-319-7227 www.atwdc.org Never the Sinner -- John Logan's ''docu-drama'' about 1924's infamous Leopold and Loeb case, in which two young heirs...

  • Classical and Choral Music

    BACH SINFONIA 301-362-6525 www.bachsinfonia.org Henry Purcell -- Dido and Aeneas (10/28, Woodside United Methodist Church, Silver Spring, Md.) · From Shakespeare to the Sephardim --...

  • Art Museums & Galleries

    ARTHUR M. SACKLER GALLERY 1050 Independence Ave. SW 202-633-1000 www.asia.si.edu Perspectives: Simryn Gill -- The first major exhibit in the U.S. of contemporary Singapore-born artist...

  • A Moral Movement

    This past Valentine's Day, I had dinner with someone I had been seeing for a little more than two weeks. For a young man, my...

  • Vacation Outing

    My most beloved tropical vacation began with a single border crossing. There is no other way to get to Dulles than to cross into Virginia....

  • Dedicated to D.C.

    During a town-hall forum focused on the state of the black GLBT community in Washington held earlier this month, a member of the audience asked...

  • Raising the Dead

    The Pale Blue Eye Your first reaction upon hearing that Louis Bayard, author of the very successful Mr. Timothy (where he raised the literary spirit...

  • Secret Service

    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...

  • GLAA Marks 35 Years

    When the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance celebrates a milestone, it's a bit like the tortoise making his victory lap to the hare's chagrin. Steadily,...

  • Soundwaves

    SONIA BOMBS THE DANCE FLOOR... Even in remixed form, it's not often that you hear a folk song on the dance floor. And it's almost...

  • FAIR's Fair?

    Much of the reaction to the Supreme Court's 8-0 decision in Rumsfeld v. FAIR to uphold the Solomon Amendment has been ill-informed. Commentators, especially in...

  • The Cost of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell'

    A new study from the University of California estimates the financial costs of the military's ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy, under which more than 10,000...

  • The Big Picture

    Waves of Relief (Photo courtesy of Connect) AS 2004 CLOSED OUT with the tsunami of gargantuan proportions, 2005 saw more of the same. And the...