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Which bowling ball color does Rick Santorum find most offensive for...

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Outspoken #51: Capital Queer Prom Night: LGBT prom partiers share why this...

Video: Host Ebone Bell had to recuse herself from asking the questions this week, as she's the producer behind the Capital Queer Prom. But that didn't stop us from putting her on the other side of the...

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Victim of Georgia Ave. Robbery Speaks: He and partner answer Metro Weekly's...

News: Following the March 12 beating and subsequent robbery of a gay man by two separate groups of people in the city's Park View neighborhood, Washington's LGBT community sprang into action. The...

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Coverboy: Luke: Budding globalist and crafty creator

Coverboy Interview: Growing up in the relatively rural Shenandoah Valley, Luke now lives in Alexandria and is appreciating that the world is his oyster. ''My last trip was Spain for a month,'' he says....

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Skinner Scheduled for Trial: Man accused of threatening teenage lesbians...

News: The man accused of approaching two teenage girls, 15 and 16, near the Minnesota Avenue Metro Station and threatening to rape them in front of two witnesses was ordered yesterday to enter an...

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Counting the Crimes: D.C. police reports show 15 possible gay and transgender...

News: The March 20 demonstration for victims of crimes that seemed to target members of the LGBT community may have been more warranted than organizers imagined. While three attacks were specifically...

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Horoscope: April 5, 2012

Horoscope: Heavenly Round-Up: You're ready to look for the light at the end of the tunnel. You're on the brink of cracking the code and going on the offensive. You're moving forward without the stress...

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Spiderspoof: Landless Theatre Company spoofs the musical ''Spider-Man''

Stage: ''It seems like a lot of theaters take themselves a little too seriously,'' says Mickey DaGuiso. That's certainly not true of Landless Theatre, the company the gay actor and music director is...

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A Woman Alone: 'Strange Interlude': Shakespeare Theatre Company masterfully...

Stage: In the pantheon of social types, there have always been the over-qualified and under-employed. These are the alphas that, never quite launching, end up using their iron wills and formidable...

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Kahn Bravura!: The applause began when Michael Kahn joined the Shakespeare...

Feature Story: Ask Michael Kahn if he's happy and here's the response you'll likely get: "Last night, I was walking around the house and I said to myself, 'Are you happy?'" muses Kahn, seated in the...

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LGBT National Briefs: Campus and Coffee: California schools considering...

News: COLLEGES MAY ASK STUDENTS ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATION/GENDER IDENTITY California state institutions of higher education are considering adding some questions to applications or enrollment forms, the...

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LGBT News Briefs: Pageant and Parish: Transgender beauty contestant in Canada...

News: Beauty Pageant Hopeful Takes on Miss Universe Over Gender Identity Jenna Talackova, 23, spoke on Tuesday, alongside celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, about her ordeal of being kicked out of, then...

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Incumbency Trumps in DC and Maryland: Amid light turnout, voters stick with...

News: As with District residents writ large, D.C.'s LGBT community shouldn't expect any major changes in its collective relationship with the city's elected officials. With results nearly wrapped, but...

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Dancing through Wonderland: The Washington Ballet's forthcoming ''Alice'' is...

Dance: ''It's a big one,'' says Septime Webre, ''a really loud, wild dream.'' The artistic director of the Washington Ballet isn't joking about the brand-new production Alice (in Wonderland), which is...

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When in Rome: Away from home, your mores take a backseat to local law

Opinion: Vacations are supposed to be a time to relax, recharge or let loose. A holiday trek may also be highly educational. Certainly, that was the case for Dennis Jay Mayer and his partner, John...

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Our Little Girl: Coming out as parents of a transgender child was our way to...

Opinion: We are the parents of a transgender child, Jackie. And we decided to tell our family's story on television, in the April broadcast of the national public television newsmagazine series In the...

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Say What We Mean: Seeking to be inclusive by using ''LGBT'' rather than...

Opinion: So Tony Perkins, the longtime bigoted mouthpiece for the rabidly anti-gay Family Research Council, was rather apoplectic this past week over the news that a soldier in Afghanistan raised a...

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Coverboy: Robert: Family man meets gypsy dancer

Coverboy Interview: Robert, 25, is one Buffalo, N.Y., native who actually can ''Shuffle Off to Buffalo.'' As a professional dancer, that's kid stuff. ''Shuffling off'' is actually something he's...

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Which Shakespeare play is your favorite?: Take our poll. Enter to win an XBox...

Poll: // Read our interview with Michael Kahn, Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company. ...more

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Checked Out: Gay man claims hostile environment at the Library of Congress...

News: On one hand, the Library of Congress is the institution that houses a large portion of the late gay-rights icon Frank Kameny's legacy – despite criticism from anti-gay activists. It's a federal...

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