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  • Paul Kawata

    By on November 30, 2005

    When Paul Kawata agreed to serve as executive director of the National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) in 1989, the organization had a staff of four...

  • Adam Tenner

    By on November 30, 2005

    Headquartered in a basement along Pennsylvania Avenue SE, nearly spitting distance from the Capitol, the drop-in center and offices of Metro TeenAIDS (MTA) are very...

  • Julie Scofield

    By on November 30, 2005

    Among the quotes one could only hear in Washington, add the following: ''I have a great passion for the role of state government.'' It's a...

  • Five Alive

    By on August 17, 2005

    Under the noonday sun Monday, a group of local religious leaders offered another ray of light. Downtown, on the steps of the Metropolitan African Methodist...

  • Party Crasher

    By on May 25, 2005

    Titan Bar held all the elements for a party Monday evening. Beyond the regular bar offerings, there was a buffet. The crowd of about 50...

  • Talking Tina

    By on March 16, 2005

    Crystal methamphetamine was on dozens of people's minds Monday afternoon at the Barceló Hotel on P Street. While mention of a hotel and crystal meth...

  • Blonde Ambition

    By on February 16, 2005

    One could almost say Mrs. Robinson is the original desperate housewife. But there's nothing desperate about the woman currently playing her on The Graduate's national...

  • Art History

    By on December 1, 2004

    Peter Stebbins remembers meeting David Jamieson when the two entered the University of Vermont as freshman in 1983. ''I came home to find a gathering...

  • 'Our Heroes: A 20-Year Journey of AIDS Through Our Eyes'

    By on December 1, 2004

    Martin Luther King Jr. Public Library 901 G St., NW Multiple exhibits through Dec. 31 LaQuis Harkins, ''And So Goes a Nation'' poetry reading 6:30-8:30...

  • Chef's Best

    By on November 3, 2004

    Graham Beard Graham Beard, Volunteer Graham Beard holds the distinction of being Food & Friends' first volunteer, having responded to a classified ad in 1988....

  • Community Kitchen

    By on November 3, 2004

    Food & Friends started from scratch in 1988, when the Rev. Carla Gorrell decided that she wanted to help nourish Washingtonians suffering from AIDS-related illnesses....

  • Legendary Ladies

    By on May 19, 2004

    ''It's not a huge evening, '' says A. Cornelius Baker of ''A Celebration of Life, '' the Whitman-Walker Clinic's eleventh annual Spring gala. ''It's not...

  • HIV Positive Drop-In Coffee House

    By on April 21, 2004

    HIV Positive Drop-In CoffeeHouse Hosted by FriendsMeeting House of Washington Mission: Provide people living with HIV a comfortable and social place to interact. Founded: 1984...

  • Song of the Quilt

    By on November 19, 2003

    Photographs by Todd Franson The Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington and D.C.'s Different Drummers on their first full rehearsal, Tuesday, November 18th, 2003. ''When...

  • Far From Over

    By on November 19, 2003

    It's been a long time since the first World AIDS Day in 1988. In those earlier days of the epidemic, it was one of many...