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  • Coverboy: Gary

    By on December 5, 2011

    Call out the welcome wagon, Gary has arrived. The 25-year-old – originally from Detroit, and most recently Atlanta – moved to metro D.C. in August...

  • Coverboy: Fame

    By on November 30, 2011

    Fame grants that his name wasn't awarded to him by his parents. ''It was given to me by a friend because I was popular in...

  • Straight Sister of the LGBT Movement

    By on November 23, 2011

    At first glance, Sharon Lettman-Hicks doesn't seem like your typical LGBT activist. For starters, she's a straight woman. She's married to a military husband. She...

  • Attacking Indifference

    By on October 27, 2011

    Washington residents, government agencies and community groups rallied at an Oct. 24 town hall to sound an alarm about problems facing ''black LGBTQI youth'' in...

  • Coverboy: Jason

    By on October 6, 2011

    Jason, 24, has a strong relationship with God, but is hesitant about church. He used to love it, even participating as a pastor's assistant. Then...

  • Tea Time

    By on September 29, 2011

    Intimate one-man shows are like that friend who's just been on a cooking course. You know, the one who's frantic to make you dinner? On...

  • NBJC Takes the Hill

    By on September 14, 2011

    Following on an annual outing begun last year, the National Black Justice Coalition will be returning to Capitol Hill next year for ''Out on the...

  • NAACP Joins Maryland Marriage Fight

    By on September 9, 2011

    The Baltimore branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has become the latest organization to join the umbrella organization Marylanders...

  • Honoring the Dream (UPDATED)

    By on August 26, 2011

    When the new Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial is dedicated Sunday, Aug. 28, it will certainly be a national event, if not one that...

  • Video Recap: NAACP tackles black & gay tensions at national convention [video]

    By on August 2, 2011

    A week ago, the NAACP held a groundbreaking discussion about LGBT issues in Los Angeles for its 102nd Convention. The panel was hosted by CNN’s...

  • Coverboy: London

    By on July 18, 2011

    London is new to the nation's capital. The 28-year-old native of New Orleans moved to D.C. from Detroit two months ago to consider a job...

  • Coverboy AJ

    By on June 23, 2011

    Looking at his busy schedule, AJ no longer has downtime. He's been modeling since he was 16, and these days, when he gets a free...

  • History of Pride

    By on June 9, 2011

    Almost three decades before Stonewall, a gay African-American man named Bayard Rustin organized a 1941 March on Washington so successful that it never even took...

  • All of Us

    By on February 2, 2011

    There are different ways to mark the anniversaries of Us Helping Us, People Into Living Inc. Bishop Kwabena Rainey Cheeks formed the organization in 1985....

  • Voice of America

    By on January 26, 2011

    Although known by many Americans for her portrayal as Dr. Nancy McNally, the national security advisor on NBC's The West Wing, or as Gloria Akalitus,...