Plea Deal Offered to Three in Howard Theatre Stabbing: Preliminary hearing...
News: This morning, three co-defendants accused of stabbing a 16-year-old male three times while yelling homophobic slurs at him had their preliminary hearing continued to Monday, July 9, after...
View ArticleDC GOP Adopts Inclusive Platform: Becomes first state GOP delegation to adopt...
News: The D.C. Republican Committee, the District's equivalent of a state party, has become the first Republican state party to endorse LGBT-inclusive language into its party platform ahead of the...
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Losing Tim Lipka: Sudden death of young Washingtonian shocks DC Gay Flag...
News: July began with the worst possible news for family and friends of Petworth resident Tim Lipka, 25. ''It was a shock,'' says Lipka's close friend and fellow player on the DC Gay Flag Football...
View ArticleOne Stabbing Suspect Held, Two Released: Judge finds probable cause, issues...
News: A D.C. Superior Court judge this morning found probable cause that three suspects accused of participating in stabbing a teenage male while yelling homophobic slurs at him June 26 may have...
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Remembering David Chung: Popular Nellie's bartender, who died last weekend,...
News: If you set foot in Nellie's Sports Bar over the past four years, you knew David Chung. He may not have been the face of Nellie's, exactly, but Chung, a popular bartender and assistant manager who...
View ArticleEpiscopal Church Votes To Sanction Same-Sex ''Blessings'': Clear majority of...
News: Leaders of the Episcopal Church voted overwhelmingly July 9 to approve blessings of same-sex weddings and the church's general convention in Indianapolis, according to the Episcopal News Service....
View ArticleHunting for Fair-Housing Violators: A new advertising campaign, made possible...
News: The D.C. Office of Human Rights (OHR) launched a campaign July 9 to educate District residents about housing discrimination, including discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender...
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Fringe Follies: The Capital Fringe Festival offers a bit of everything
Stage: Over the next couple weeks you can see a theatrical spoof of Fox-TV's Glee, in which troublemakers are forced to form a comedy club. Also on tap is one man's take on The Princess Bride, and a...
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In Tune: Afro-Blue Vocal Band sings new life into a cappella music
Music: ''I think a lot of people weren't even sure what a cappella music was before The Sing Off,'' says Eliza Berkon. Berkon's D.C.-based a cappella group the Afro-Blue Vocal Band ended up placing...
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Coming to Terms: Mary Chapin Carpenter's ''Ashes and Roses'' follows the arc...
Music: ''And the world that I see is returning once more, to the world that I knew it be long before,'' Mary Chapin Carpenter sings on ''Fading Away.'' ''It had merged with your laugh, it had locked...
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Magic Realism: 'Beasts of the Southern Wild': Behn Zeitlin has made a...
Film: I've never been to Louisiana. Not New Orleans, not Baton Rouge, not Grand Isle, not any of it. I can't begin to grasp what it's like to live there, and I won't pretend to know what Cajun culture...
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Networking for Women: Positive Women's Network brings the group's important...
News: Ahead of the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012), an Oakland, Calif.-based HIV/AIDS organization for women is partnering with the conference to advocate for research and strong, bold...
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Strategizing Ahead of AIDS 2012: Experts call for more comprehensive federal...
News: A panel of experts on HIV/AIDS told a room full of journalists at Tuesday media briefing that the right federal policies could essentially end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States. Held 10...
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Young, Black and Leading the Way: Gay Men's Health Summit
Feature Story: Frank Walker thought his life's work was with the Chicago Cubs. ''Growing up I was such a huge Cubs fan, and all I wanted to do was work in the front office of the Cubs,'' Walker says....
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Message with an Edge: Gay Men's Health Summit
Feature Story: Daniel O'Neill and Brant Miller have a success story to share. At their Gay Men's Health Summit Workshop, ''Repackaging the Condom Question: Using Sexually Explicit Messaging to Inform...
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Summit Strength: Advocate Christopher Dyer gets the conversation started...
Feature Story: As the District prepares for the XIX International AIDS Conference, aka AIDS 2012, locals are preparing a smaller gathering for the days just prior. And, though smaller, this Gay Men's...
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Progressive Pocan: Mark Pocan hopes to become Madison's second out gay...
News: While Wisconsin's capital city, Madison, is often dismissed by conservatives, including the state's Republican governor, as a liberal bastion out-of-step with the rest of the state, the college...
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Rep. Barney Frank and Jim Ready Marry: The two men exchange vows in...
News: More than 25 years after becoming the first gay man to voluntarily come out as gay while serving in Congress, and just months away from retirement, Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank once...
View ArticleWhat's in a Name?: The ''MSM'' label negates community, the very key to our...
Opinion: In the late 1980s, epidemiologists adopted the expression "men having sex with men" to categorize routes of HIV transmission, to acknowledge that not all such men identify as gay or bisexual....
View ArticlePretty Pretty Bang Bang: While showing our nephew what it's like to live in...
Opinion: So here we were, just an hour since our arrival at my sister's home in oh-so-rural Kentucky. Cavin and I brought our nephew, Andrew, here for a summer vacation to experience farm life,...
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