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Soul-Stirring: Fifteen homeless women make their Kennedy Center debut in...
Stage: Most actors don't make their stage debut at the Kennedy Center. But then the 15 women in the Theater Lab's My Soul, Look Back and Wonder aren't like most actors. ''All of them are homeless and...
View ArticleSister Courage: Regardless of faith, advocates of social justice have reason...
Opinion: The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) used to be called the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition. That came to mind last week when the...
View ArticleBackward Glances: Seeing gay politics through the prism of the 1990s...
Opinion: Some large portion of the collective Democratic mind will always see the world as if it's still 1993. That's when the backlash against President Bill Clinton's promise to end military...
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Coverboy: Mark: Free spirit with a zest for life
Coverboy Interview: A childhood accident nearly claimed Mark's life. It also shaped his worldview. When he was six, he fell out of a boat and was about to be sucked into the propeller just as his...
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Lauper's D.C. Date: Grammy-winner coming to Washington for SAMHSA honor and...
News: She won't be belting out her signature songs, but Cyndi Lauper is heading to Washington nonetheless. It will be a visit for the kids. ''I am doing something really important,'' Grammy-winner...
View ArticleThink Pink: The Task Force plans to paint the town queer this weekend
Clublife: The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force produces the famed Winter Party Festival in Miami, with the tagline ''party with a purpose.'' But why should Miami have all the fun? ''Not everything...
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The 2012 Next Generation Awards: Christopher Barnhill, Iimay Ho, Terra...
Feature Story: As a community, it is vital that we understand our past so our history can be told. But if we hope to see change come in the ongoing fight for LGBT equality, the future is where we need...
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2012 Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards Selection Panel:
Feature Story: The Next Generation Awards are chosen from a pool of community nominations by a panel of Washington-area LGBT leaders from the worlds of arts, activism, business and politics. The 2012...
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David M. Pérez: The Next Generation Awards 2012
Feature Story: Some gay people grow up to run screaming from conservative Christian upbringings. Not David M. Pérez. This Southern California native embraced the values of his youth and carries them...
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Terra Tempest Moore: The Next Generation Awards 2012
Feature Story: Describing Terra Tempest Moore, Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League Executive Director Andrew Barnett wrote, ''She is a natural leader, talented public speaker, and fierce advocate...
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Iimay Ho: The Next Generation Awards 2012
Feature Story: Iimay Ho remembers one of the first times direct activism paid off for her. While a junior in high school, one of her classmates drew a Chinese man during a discussion of Confucianism....
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Christopher Barnhill: The Next Generation Awards 2012
Feature Story: Christopher Barnhill may be only 25 years old. But to hear this Metro Weekly Next Generation Award winner tell it, he's already fulfilling his life's purpose. As a schools engagement...
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Avenging Marvels: Magnificently helmed by Joss Whedon, ''The Avengers'' is a...
Film: Take a minute to consider how incredible it is that The Avengers exists. This movie, after all, is more than seven years in the making. Along the way, five others had to be filmed, released, and...
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Uplifted: Pilobolus: Baltimore native Nile Russell was all ready to give up...
Dance: Nile Russell was all ready to give up dancing. ''In modern dance, there were people freaking out the audience just for the sake of freaking them out, chaos for the sake of chaos,'' says Russell....
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Black Bluegrass: Carolina Chocolate Drops drum up interest in little-known genre
Music: The black string music tradition predates the blues. It even influenced and echoes what is today commonly known as traditional folk and bluegrass. But don't worry if you haven't heard of it....
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Dancing to Memories: Kyle Abraham honors memories of his father in ''The...
Dance: ''It started out as kind of a stutter,'' says Kyle Abraham, about his father's aphasia, a type of brain damage. ''Two years later, it started getting worse. So it was just a gradual thing.''...
View ArticleCircle Celebration: D.C.'s Youth Pride marks a second year back in Dupont Circle
News: D.C.'s 16th annual Youth Pride celebration went ahead as planned Saturday, April 28, with periods of cloudiness and sunshine, but none of the showers that have forced postponements in the past....
View ArticleRuby Corado to Open LGBT Latino Resource Center: Local transgender activist...
News: Everybody is welcome at Casa Ruby. That's the pitch from local transgender activist Ruby Corado, who plans to open an LGBT-targeted resource center in Columbia Heights this month at a...
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