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What is your favorite Fran Drescher performance?: Take our poll. Enter to win...

Poll: // Don't miss this related story: Frantastic! An interview with Fran Drescher. ...more

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Rise of the Griffin: As Chad Griffin prepares to take over at HRC in June,...

News: ''I truly believe, unlike any other issue, whatever it takes to win we will do, and we will not cut a single corner,'' Chad Griffin said. In May 2011, two years after having launched a federal...

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Whitman-Walker Touts Growth, Fiscal Health: Community health center expected...

News: Whitman-Walker Health, the local community health center specializing in the treatment of HIV/AIDS and LGBT health care, announced Monday that it is projecting an operating gain of more than $2.6...

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Cendana Surges: Next Generation winner bests councilmembers for Dem...

News: An out gay Asian-Pacific Islander-American brought together a coalition of voters, boosted by support from the LGBT community and labor, to beat out sitting Councilmembers Marion Barry (D-Ward 8)...

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Showdown at Stein: Sekou Biddle, Vincent Orange split LGBT Democrats support

News: Former Councilmember Sekou Biddle (D-At Large) and sitting Councilmember Vincent Orange (D-At Large), who replaced Biddle in an April 2011 special election, sparred over their positions on LGBT...

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Deal Reached After DOJ Joins Bullying Lawsuit: Five-year consent decree aims...

News: ''I made change for kids that aren't strong enough to make change," Dylon Frei, an out gay student in the Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota, told reporters on Tuesday morning, March 6....

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Athletic Supporters: Team DC's fashion show ultimately supports LGBT student...

Events:   2011 Team DC Fashion Show (Photo by Julian Vankim) Years ago, a model passed out onstage at Team DC's Fashion Show. ''He hadn't eaten that day because he thought he was too fat – which, of...

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Town and Gown: This month Town welcomes two of the strongest contestants on...

Clublife: One day, maybe D.C. will have another homegrown contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race. But for now, every weekend Town features Miss Tatiana, season two's third runner up. This month, however, the...

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Mars Barred: Awkward and inconsequential, ''John Carter'' tries to pass...

Film: Based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs story that debuted in a pulp magazine 100 years ago, John Carter is a very expensive movie. If there's any other reason why the movie was evacuated from the...

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Musical Theater Band: The pop/rock group GrooveLily writes its own musicals

Stage: ''She was certain that I was gay, because I was in New York to study musical theater and I was playing piano [at a gay bar] on Christopher Street,'' says Brendan Milburn. But Milburn convinced...

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Musical Theater Band: The pop/rock group GrooveLily writes its own musicals

Music: ''She was certain that I was gay, because I was in New York to study musical theater and I was playing piano [at a gay bar] on Christopher Street,'' says Brendan Milburn. But Milburn convinced...

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Musical Communion: Indigo Girl Amy Ray takes listeners to a punk-folk church

Music: Amy Ray takes listeners to church on her new solo album, Lung of Love. The church, that is, of rock music. ''Oh the rock is my foundation,'' she sings. ''Jesus is at the bass, God is on the kick...

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Divine Dance: JD Samson + MEN offers liberal dance communion

Music: LAST YEAR, JD SAMSON, of the feminist dance-punk trio Le Tigre, released Talk About Body with her queer dance collective MEN, which also sometimes includes Le Tigre's Johanna Fateman. It was one...

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Rocky Concert: The Gay Men's Chorus of Washington presents a ''glitzier,''...

Stage: Craig Cipollini, and Anthony Preston as Rocky, photographed by Todd Franson, Friday, Feb. 24 If Lady Gaga were to stage The Rocky Horror Show, the result might be similar to what the Gay Men's...

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Amsterdamned: David Ives's portrait of a city and citizen in crisis features...

Stage: Who over 30 hasn't thought at some point that know-it-all twentysomethings -- lounging in their skinny jeans, tweeting about their favorite CW shows -- will surely be the downfall of...

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Good Wood: Mautner Project chooses the organization's Volunteer of the Year

Feature Story: As an associate broker at D.C.'s City Houses, it's no wonder that Ed Wood volunteers some of his time professionally, serving on the board of the D.C. Association of Realtors and...

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Making a Splash: Judy Dlugacz has taken the Olivia brand from local lesbian...

Feature Story: It's March 1, and Judy Dlugacz – '''de-loo'-gatch,' it's very common in Poland'' – is getting ready for a party. She's got a day to wait for her 60th birthday blowout at The Washington...

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Reaching Out to the Church: In light of recent controversies,...

Opinion: A few weeks ago I was invited to sit down with the cast of American University's Bare, The Musical, and discuss my life as a gay Catholic. Being gay and Catholic is central to the plot of this...

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So Sorry: From Rush Limbaugh to Kirk Cameron to NOM, anti-gay proselytizers...

Opinion: There are few things in life as insulting as an insincere apology for an insult. We know this because it is one of life's guarantees that we will receive more than one — and give a few of our...

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Then and Now: White House won't comment on a federal contractor...

News: Despite the refusal of the White House to comment for months on whether the president supports a federal nondiscrimination policy based on sexual orientation or gender identity for federal...

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