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  • Virginia Villages

    By on September 19, 2007

    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...

  • Citizen Nick

    By on August 8, 2007

    With a foundation built on journalism and baseball, Nicholas F. Benton's start in life was nothing if not all-American. At 7, he got the scoop...

  • Local News Briefs

    By on February 28, 2007

    Virginia Legislative Session wraps Sarah Gustafson, president of Equality Fairfax, says she is ''pleased'' with the outcome of Virginia's 2007 legislative session, which convened Jan....

  • Location, Location, Discrimination

    By on February 21, 2007

    VOTERS AND LEGISLATORS in Virginia have been increasingly busy in recent times, seemingly vying for the title of most homophobic state in the union. As...

  • Gays Win Some, Lose Some in Virginia Legislature

    By on February 7, 2007

    A bill that ensures hospital-visitation rights for same-gender couples in Virginia has passed the House of Delegates by a unanimous vote, and will be voted...

  • Local Politics: A Look Back at 2006

    By on January 3, 2007

    Ballot Boxes Fenty IT MAY HAVE seemed like a political gimmick when Adrian Fenty ran his months-long campaign focusing on knocking on just about ever...

  • Labor Pains

    By on December 13, 2006

    It's sort of official: Mary Cheney, the vice president's lesbian daughter, and partner Heather Poe are going to have a baby. In Virginia. The pregnancy,...

  • Calling All Voters

    By on November 1, 2006

    All good things must come to an end — even when ”good” is a somewhat relative term. So it is that on Tuesday, Nov. 7,...

  • A Dominion Decision

    By on November 1, 2006

    While D.C.'s election stories may have burned brightest back in September, the states that surround the nation's capital have taken up the torch for closely...

  • The Fine Print

    By on October 18, 2006

    Tuesday was a good day, as battles against anti-gay constitutional amendments go. That was the day the Washington Post released its latest polling on the...

  • Freddie's Funhouse

    By on March 29, 2006

    ''Take Jimmy Buffett and a drag queen, mix them together and add lots of purple,'' says Tony Rivenbark. And what does that get you? Freddie's...

  • 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...

  • At Home in the Old Dominion

    By on September 28, 2005

    There comes a moment when you realize you're doing something right. For Virginia State Del. Adam Ebbin (D), the moment came near the end of...

  • Virginia's Resolved Outpost

    By on March 23, 2005

    Thirty years ago, on March 25, 1975, the Alexandria City Council made a big step toward securing its reputation as one of Virginia's most progressive...

  • Hostile Territory

    By on February 2, 2005

    ''Why did you move to the hate state?'' That's what I've been asked, in various forms, since I left D.C.'s Adams Morgan/Columbia Heights neighborhood last...