Beninda, Budd nominated for D.C. Commission on Human Rights: If approved by...
News: Neither Alexandra Beninda nor Earline Budd is a stranger to the LGBT community, so it came as little shock when Mayor Vincent Gray (D) nominated the two for seats on the D.C. Commission on Human...
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Making Connections: NGLCC brings together LGBT businesses and big...
Business: It's a maxim in business: It's not what you know, it's who you know. While much can be said for the inverse, good connections are vital to business success. Programs around the country have...
View ArticleServants of Misrule: Taking issue with Richard Grenell's mea culpa and grand...
Opinion: People in scorned social positions can sometimes transcend their subservient roles by their wit. This is no substitute for a liberation movement, but it can offer a ray of hope during dark...
View ArticleScenes from North Carolina: Despite the outburst of bigotry, it's difficult...
Opinion: ''Watch out for copperheads.'' That seems to be my earliest memory of North Carolina, a casual warning that I don't recall the context for but that filled my 8-year-old mind with the fear of...
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Horoscope: May 10-16, 2012
Horoscope: Heavenly Round Up: What will the wind bring back to you after you blow the dandelion fluff away? What will the tide wash up on the shore after you toss in that message in a bottle? Simple,...
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DC Gay Flag Football League Championship 2012 (DCGFFL) (video):
Video: DCGFFL The DC Gay Flag Football League capped off its season with semi-final and championship games. The championship game featured the players from Tsunami, the tie-dye blue team, and Back...
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Gershwin Jukebox: Despite a lackluster Matthew Broderick, the Tony-nominated...
Stage: They're no Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, but Kelli O'Hara and Matthew Broderick make quite the dancing pair in the new Broadway musical Nice Work If You Can Get It. In fact, the charming...
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Golden Tribute: Though there are flaws in End of the Rainbow, there's nary a...
Stage: Maybe you don't love Judy Garland. Maybe you don't understand or – gasp! – respect her ties to the gay community, or why she still has a hold on so many gay men of a certain age. There's even a...
View ArticleClose to Home: Town-hall event set to discuss local LGBT youth homelessness
News: It may not be a topic that fills the community with pride, but it's certainly relevant: LGBT youth homelessness. That's the topic the community will tackle Thursday, May 31, when The DC Center...
View ArticleVirginia's Vexing Politics: State politicos see possible course correction on...
News: As the saying goes, ''Virginia is for lovers.'' While few would argue the tourism slogan applies to gay people, one might wonder when the state will reach its anti-LGBT bottom. An approved 2006...
View ArticleNAACP Gets to Yes: An ally's announcement is ample reason for celebration
Opinion: A group calling itself the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People hardly sounds cutting edge. Yet 62 of 64 board members for the nation's oldest civil rights organization...
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Double Serving: If you like your slapstick shameless and your gags spelled...
Stage: At one point in the middle of the complicated hijinks of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's The Servant of Two Masters, Truffaldino, the servant in question, turns to the audience and asks:...
View ArticleLaunching Pride: The kick-off to the pride season, DC Black Pride weekend is...
Opinion: Back in the younger years of DC's Black Pride celebration, I was coordinating HIV-prevention outreach efforts with one of my black co-workers at Whitman-Walker Clinic. ''Okay, so you're...
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Board, Sponsors and Guide Masthead: DC Black Pride 2012
Black Pride Guide: The 2012 Black Lesbian & Gay Pride Day, Inc. Board Maxanne CheathamDerrick DunningJimma Elliot-StevensEarl Fowlkes, Jr.Kenneth HopsonKenya HuttonMarc MorganJune SpenceAndrea...
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Poolside View: Swimsuits for Men 2012
Feature Story: (Photo by Julian Vankim) AFTER A WINTER'S worth of work hitting the gym, counting calories and achieving that shape, you can indulge with a little showing off in the summer sun. What...
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Film Forum: This year's DC Black Pride screens three powerful, provocative films
Black Pride Guide: ''It's disheartening for me to see how the island is saturated with homophobia,'' says Dre Woody Macko. Macko hopes the new documentary Taboo Yardies helps shine a light on her...
View ArticleRelease, Change of Bond Denied for Furr: Off-duty MPD officer accused of...
News: Kenneth Furr, the off-duty Metropolitan Police Department officer who allegedly shot at a car containing five people, including at least two transgender women, remains held in jail without bail...
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Royal Welcome: From crafts to king, Peggielene Bartels has long been a...
Black Pride Guide: LGBT pride festivals are no strangers to divas. Genuine royalty, on the other hand, is quite a bit more rare. Arriving in D.C. from Ghana decades ago, a twist of fate in 2008 saw...
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Partying with Pride: This year's DC Black Pride nightlife returns in a big way
Black Pride Guide: Ashanti will perform at Fur Nightclub this Friday, May 25, as part of a ''mega party'' for DC Black Pride. It's purportedly the R&B singer's first headlining gig at a gay event....
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Official 2012 International Federation of Black Prides Events Calendar: June...
Black Pride Guide: June SAY IT LOUD!Albany, NYJune 1-2, 2012Contact: Jasán WardPhone: 518-432-4188Email: info@inourownvoices.orgblackandlatinogaypride.org PORTLAND BLACK PRIDEPortland, ORJune 6-12,...
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