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  • DC Center Elects Officers

    By on January 6, 2014

    The board of directors for The DC Center, the District's LGBT community center, on Jan. 3 announced the center's new board members and officers for...

  • Leather Family Picnic

    By on June 2, 2011

    ''It started out as just a twinkle in my eye,'' Michael Sessa says. Six years later, Sessa's twinkle of an annual local Leather Pride event...

  • Rhee's Tardy Response

    By on June 10, 2010

    Two years ago Michael Sessa was outraged by the results of the city's 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) for students attending public schools in...

  • Dark Victory

    By on June 3, 2009

    ''I didn't know what was happening -- I thought he was having a mid-life crisis or something,'' says composer Michael Shaieb of a close friend...

  • Three of a Kind

    By on June 3, 2009

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

  • Civil Strategy

    By on December 17, 2008

    California voters spoke Nov. 4 when they pulled the plug on marriage equality for gays and lesbians -- won in the California Supreme Court less...

  • Lending an Ear

    By on December 10, 2008

    In the District, people talk about HIV/AIDS -- a lot. Of course, with a statistical profile that puts D.C. on par with sub-Saharan Africa when...

  • Budding Prides

    By on June 4, 2008

    Unity might be key in celebrating Capital Pride. There is, however, also something special about celebrating what might set a group apart, says SaVanna Wanzer,...

  • Calling on Rhee

    By on March 26, 2008

    Students at D.C.'s public high schools who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual were four times more likely to attempt suicide over the past year,...

  • Locating Linder

    By on December 19, 2007

    Nearly three years ago, Feb. 20, 2005, Geraldine ''Jerrie'' Linder passed away. At 83, it was no surprise that she died of natural causes. What...

  • D.C. Center Plans 2008

    By on December 12, 2007

    The D.C. Center, metropolitan Washington's GLBT community center, held an annual brunch and planning meeting Saturday, Dec. 8, asking community leaders to offer upcoming events...

  • Meth by the Numbers

    By on December 5, 2007

    Thomas McDermitt was battling addiction long before discovering ''crystal.'' In the five years since graduating from high school in 1986, McDermitt outgrew his alcohol addiction...

  • A New Honor

    By on September 12, 2007

    The Center-Home for GLBT in Metro D.C. has announced it will be holding its annual fall fundraiser Sept. 19 to honor the five co-founders of...

  • The Kids Are All Right

    By on May 2, 2007

    Unlike the past two years, it didn't rain. And by midday, there was an exuberant mood and plenty to see and do at the 11th...

  • Homefront

    By on January 4, 2006

    Living Check to Check IN ONE OF THE MOST striking moments of 2005, Whitman-Walker Clinic announced in May that it would be unable to meet...