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  • Letter from Cornelius Baker

    By on June 9, 2004

    As Charles Dickens wrote, ''it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.'' For the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community, it...

  • Pride + Vote = Power

    By on June 9, 2004

    ''Rock the vote.'' ''Every vote counts.'' ''Choose or lose.'' ''Vote as if your life depended on it.'' Each election cycle we hear the admonishments. From...

  • 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...

  • Doctor, Doctor

    By on April 14, 2004

    Take Charge of Your Health by Talking to Your Doctor Among the uncomfortable experiences that are part and parcel of life is that first visit...

  • Sliding Scales

    By on February 4, 2004

    Since December, clients receiving medical health services from the Lesbian Services Program at Whitman-Walker Clinic have been required to pay a fee for their care,...

  • 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...

  • Fighting Hepatitis

    By on October 29, 2003

    Previously we looked at hepatitis A and all the excellent reasons to get the readily-available vaccine. Now it's time to learn about hepatitis B and...

  • Living Art

    By on October 15, 2003

    by Shawn Davis by Fay Kelley by Susannah Sayler by Michael Sprouse by Charles R. Gaynor by Dominique Samyn-Werbrouck For the past decade, the Art...

  • Push for Pap

    By on October 1, 2003

    If a woman rarely or never has sex with men, should she still get regular Pap smears? Absolutely, say experts in lesbian health. Yet a...

  • Page Turners

    By on June 25, 2003

    Photography by Michael Wichita In the back of Sparky's coffee shop members of Boys and Books sit on folding chairs, bar stools, or crowded on...

  • Weatherproof Pride

    By on June 11, 2003

    Photographs by Randy Shulman and Michael Wichita It didn't rain. Not a single drop. Not on the parade, not on the festival. But as late...

  • To Your Health

    By on March 19, 2003

    The first annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender health week is currently underway, reminding the LGBT community that its health needs go way beyond ginseng...

  • Crystal Clear

    By on March 19, 2003

    To combat a growing tide in both sexually transmitted diseases and the abuse of meth-amphetamines (crystal meth), the Whitman-Walker Clinic hosted a community forum Monday...

  • The Wait Is Over

    By on February 12, 2003

    Plugging the new rapid HIV Test in his meeting with the Presidential Advisory Commission on HIV/AIDS on January 31, President Bush couldn't help but sound...

  • Spare Any Change?

    By on October 30, 2002

         Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays wants you to go straight, and they've enlisted a hot guy to convince you.      He looks like he's...