New Plea Deal in Works for Furr: U.S. Attorney's Office expected to offer...
News: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia is expected to offer a plea deal within the next week to Kenneth Furr, the off-duty Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer who...
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On the Record: Ward 5 Candidates: The contenders vying to replace former...
News: NAME / PHOTO PARTY NEIGHBORHOOD BACKGROUND John C. Cheeks Independent Brookland Manufacturing, industrial consultant (views on LGBT issues) Tim Day Republican Brookland Accountant, former ANC...
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Bully Pulpit: Lee Hirsch made ''Bully'' to help him cope with his own baggage...
Feature Story: Last month, Bully was fighting for its life. After being handed an R rating by the Motion Picture Association of America -- effectively ruining any chance that an underage audience could...
View ArticleA Complete Guide to Dining Out for Life 2012: Thursday, April 26, 2012
Feature Story: A complete guide to all participating restaurants as of press time, by neighborhood, including meals and what percentage of each bill will be donated to Food & Friends. This year's...
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To Serve, with Love: Freddie's Beach Bar
Feature Story: ''I collect them like baseball cards – I know all their names, I know their styles,'' teases Sonya Boring. She's talking about drag queens. ''I'm not particularly feminine myself,'' she...
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Light Touch: Café Berlin
Feature Story: Washington is an international city, overflowing with embassies and other global institutions. That's not to say, however, that the District is brimming with Old World charm. That's...
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Hunter's Beacon: Beacon Bar and Grill
Feature Story: Steven Hunter's first job as head chef was at Perry's in Adams Morgan. ''I was there when they started the drag brunch,'' says Hunter, who worked at Perry's until 1996. ''It started off...
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Bully for 'Bully': It's a documentary with some shortcomings, but the power...
Film: There's no such thing as an honest documentary. Any one, told in any way, will be twisted and tacked into place by a filmmaker's intentions. An experience, even if it's captured in its entirety,...
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Family Restaurant: Annie's Paramount Steak House
Feature Story: For the latter half of the 20th century and now moving dependably into the 21st, Annie's Paramount Steak House has offered a warm welcome to those looking for a bite or beverage along...
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Dining Out for Life 2012: Guide to charity-giving restaurants
Feature Story: Food is universal. We have the technology to reduce our necessary daily intake of calories to a few ounces of liquid. That might be an amazingly efficient route to giving bodies what...
View ArticleNational LGBT News Briefs: Campus, Catholics and Cops: Bathroom politics hit...
News: Pitt Bathroom Policy Contradicts City/County Nondiscrimination Codes A University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) facilities policy contradicts that of the city and county in which the university is...
View ArticleGlobal LGBT News Briefs: Ads and Infection: London mayor bans ''conversion...
News: London Mayor Bans ''Conversion Therapy'' Bus Ads Advertisements promoting ''conversion therapy'' – which claims to make gay people straight – scheduled to run on some of London's major bus routes...
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Broadway Rock: Gavin Creel's stunning new album offers far more than just...
Music: Gavin Creel is a two-time Tony-nominated actor (Hair, Thoroughly Modern Millie), who's currently gearing up to star in the national tour of The Book of Mormon (though not the version coming to...
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Mercy McKay: Compassionate cabaret/pop artist Nellie McKay has displayed...
Music: ''I often think, 'Where's Rosie when you need her?''' laughs Nellie McKay. Rosie O'Donnell was nowhere to be found last year, after the New York-based cabaret/pop artist McKay performed a couple...
View ArticleGLAA Celebrates 41st Anniversary: Longest-running LGBT advocacy organization...
News: The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C. (GLAA), the nation's oldest continuously running gay rights advocacy organization, will mark its 41st anniversary with an April 26...
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Sweet 16 in Dupont: Youth Pride Day returns to the circle for 2012
News: While Youth Pride Day may have gotten its start in Dupont Circle, there was much more room out of the way down at P Street Beach. Marking the 15th anniversary of the Youth Pride Alliance's annual...
View ArticleSigns of Life for Anti-Bullying Initiatives in D.C.: City Council prepares to...
News: A City Council bill aimed at preventing physical and electronic forms of harassment, intimidation and bullying in District schools, libraries, parks and recreation centers – introduced more than...
View ArticleMarriage Matters: Celebrating gay weddings can teach us important things...
Opinion: Internalized homophobia is commonplace. You could say it's the result of powerful marketing – repeated catch phrases, sermons and punditry reinforcing a notion that gay people are somehow...
View ArticleHIV Bills Moving Swiftly in D.C.: Catania legislation aims to increase...
News: Two bills designed to increase awareness and promote a dialogue on HIV/AIDS between patients and service providers are closer to becoming law after being passed on consent – meaning without any...
View ArticleStick in the Eye: LGBT people understand political pragmatism, but not why...
Opinion: Whether or not we are hard-core political junkies, most of us in the LGBT community share some common understandings about politics as it relates to our lives. We know that the stances and...
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