Washington County, Md., to Offer Benefits: County will extend benefits to...
News: Lambda Legal, an LGBT legal organization, announced June 13 that Washington County, in Maryland's panhandle, will extend spousal benefits to county employees with spouses of the same sex. The...
View ArticleMayor Set To Sign: Gray sets June 22 ceremony to sign LGBT-inclusive...
News: Mayor Vincent Gray (D) has set a date, June 22, to sign the recently passed bill to combat bullying, intimidation and harassment of youth in D.C. schools, libraries, recreation centers and other...
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Crock Rock: ''Rock of Ages'' deserves a special place to suck on its own
Film: There are two kinds of people in this world: those who think hair metal is good, and those who realize it isn't. If you're allied with the former, Rock of Ages is probably something you want to...
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Scissor Sisters: 'Magic' Moves: Latest album is a stunner, while Gossip's...
Music: ''I'm gonna let you have it,'' the Scissor Sisters' Ana Matronic says halfway through Magic Hour. And on ''Let's Have A Kiki,'' the self-described drag queen-trapped-in-a-woman's body gives it...
View ArticleWhitman-Walker and Walgreens Join for HIV Testing: Retail chain partners with...
News: Whitman-Walker Health, the local nonprofit community health center that specializes in LGBT care and HIV/AIDS, will be providing free rapid HIV testing for three days at a local Walgreens store...
View ArticleGay-Owned Social Driver Honored: DC Chamber of Commerce names local website...
News: The DC Chamber of Commerce recently named local digital agency Social Driver its DC Small Business Champion of 2012, making it the first LGBT-owned business honored by the chamber. Social Driver,...
View ArticleWill Microsoft's Surface be the iPad Killer?: Weigh in at our two-second poll.
Poll:Related Stories: Rhuaridh Marr reports on the forthcoming Microsoft Surface and its new Type and Touch Covers. // ...more
View ArticleArea Hospitals Get High Marks: HRC ranks D.C. area a top region for...
News: The D.C. metropolitan area is among the top regions in the country when it comes to the quality and LGBT-friendliness of health care policies and practices at hospitals, according to the Human...
View ArticleWashington Brothers Get Fall Trial: Suspects accused in 2011 Columbia Heights...
News: The two brothers accused of assaulting five women – some of whom identified as lesbians – in Columbia Heights in July 2011 will go to trial this fall, D.C. Superior Court Judge Herbert B. Dixon...
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AIDS Quilt: 25 Year Anniversary (video): National Mall display has over...
Video: The AIDS Memorial Quilt has returned to Washington, D.C., where it will celebrate its 25th anniversary. The quilt, which now contains more than 48,000 panels filled with the names, pictures and...
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Horoscope: June 28-July 4, 2012
Horoscope: Heavenly Round-Up: Feeling all hung up and conflicted? Not able to settle in to those horns on the dilemma? You may feel more enervated than chilled out, but you could get there from here....
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Musical Venues: Summer Music Issue 2012
Feature Story: 9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW202-265-0930930.com THE BIRCHMERE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave.Alexandria703-549-7500birchmere.com BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW202-667-4490blackcatdc.com BLACK FOX LOUNGE...
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Summer Concert Highlights: Summer Music Issue 2012
Feature Story: JUNE Brandi Carlile (6/28, Wolf Trap)Ledisi – Soul singer describes new fiery, expressive album Pieces of Me as ''my Shug Avery-like project'' (6/29, Pier Six Pavilion; 7/25, DAR...
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The Top 5 Songs of Summer 2012: Summer Music Issue 2012
Feature Story: DJ Steve Henderson Ziegfeld's/Secrets Florence and the Machine - Spectrum (Calvin Harris Mix) Maroon 5 - Payphone (Cosmic Funk Mix) Karmin - Brokenhearted (Razor and Guido Mix) Madonna -...
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Making Merry: A Pims or two at the Sidney Harman bar, and you'll find much to...
Stage: Though it is without doubt intended to please the hopeless anglophile – and slides in just in time for the post-Jubilee afterglow of the alarm clock-setting crowd – the Shakespeare Theatre...
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Fred Schneider Confidential: The B-52s singer answers our Coverboy questions
Feature Story: ''It's the travel aspect that gets me,'' says Fred Schneider, of the grinds of summer touring. ''It's overnighters on a bus, the waiting, flying. Flying's no treat anymore. You might as...
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Anything but Comatose: Nina Diaz stirs interest and icons in her band
Feature Story: Girlina Coma (Photo by JoshHuskin) ''It was very surreal at times, being in France or in Scotland, and opening for one of our icons,'' says Nina Diaz of Girl in a Coma. A few years...
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Cinematic Details: Patrick Watson is no one-man, chamber-rock band
Feature Story: Patrick Watson creates what you could call ''chamber-rock music'' – something like a more expansive and happier Antony & The Johnsons, or a dreamier, more instrumental Rufus...
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Robyn's Musical Nest: Robyn's ties to club culture mirrors the gay community's
Feature Story: Robyn Why do gays around the world love Robyn? ''I think it would be ignorant of me to assume all gay people are the same, and the reason why you like me is the same reason everywhere,...
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Shears Force: Scissor Sisters, the world's most popular gay band, helps...
Feature Story: Scissor Sisters (Photo by Neil Krug) Do you know what a ''kiki'' is? If not, it's just a matter of time. ''I really had no idea that the response would be so nuts,'' says Scissor Sisters...
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