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Mayor Vincent Gray reflects on the International AIDS Conference: Special...
Feature Story: In 2008, during the XVII International AIDS Conference, held in Mexico City, one speaker helped set the tone. Ron MacInnis, a D.C. local, who was working as the director of policy and...
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Torture Garden: ''The Addams Family'' is a torture -- not just for the...
Stage: Slap some skates on Gomez, Morticia and company, ship 'em off to some suburban arena like the Patriot Center, and call it The Addams Family on Ice. At least that would honestly reflect the crass...
View ArticleSummertime Travel: From surf to skies, it pays to market to LGBT jetsetters
Business: With the days shortening – if just barely – hopeful travelers may be thinking of squeezing in one more summer vacation before settling in for the autumn grind. But a vacation isn't just a...
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Managing Migration: With its lease expiring Dec. 1, the DC Eagle is on the...
News: Ted Clements and Peter Lloyd are hoping the fourth time will be the charm for the DC Eagle. The co-owners of the Eagle, the D.C. area's primary venue for the LGBT leather, biker and BDSM...
View ArticleOwens Leading Anti-Marriage Minority: Mitt Romney's NAACP Speech Shows Some...
News: An organ played ''God Bless America'' as Mitt Romney took the stage at the NAACP's annual convention in Houston July 11. The audience stood to welcome him, but for most of the presumptive...
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Teaching Acceptance: Having seen the heartbreak of parents rejecting gay...
News: To hear Caitlin Ryan talk about her 40-year career helping families come to terms with LGBT children is to be reminded how much things have changed. Ryan was an early LGBT organizer with an...
View ArticleInternational Flights: As a pandemic evolves, we come together, each making a...
Opinion: The end of America's HIV immigration ban has allowed the XIX International AIDS Conference to be held in Washington. This welcome change reminds me of the years when the ban caused problems...
View ArticleTrue Talk: Approval of Truvada to prevent HIV infections is an opportunity...
Opinion: Back when I was still a young HIV-prevention worker in the long-ago 1990s, I came across a new campaign for gay men that had launched in Australia. It focused on negotiated safety within a...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Decries Condom Confiscation: New report charges police in...
News: The international human rights organization Human Rights Watch released a report July 19 that claims police in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington are confiscating condoms from...
View ArticleGay Couple Attacked in Eckington: Late-night altercation sends one man to the...
News: A local gay couple was attacked just after midnight Sunday, July 22, as first reported by NBC4. The attack occurred in the Eckington neighborhood of Northeast D.C. ''There were just some teenage...
View ArticleDo you plan to upgrade to Mountain Lion?: Take our poll. Win great prizes
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View ArticlePetitions Challenging DOMA Piling Up: 83-year-old Widow's Case Becomes Fourth...
News: Last week the Supreme Court received its fourth petition in less than a month asking the high court to review the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. On July 16, lawyers for Edith...
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Hometown Girl: From her start in D.C. to her support for LGBT issues, Mary...
Feature Story: ''When I've been lucky enough for people to tell me that they've experienced many of the same things,'' says Mary Chapin Carpenter, ''you just invariably feel a little less alone. You...
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Generating Sparks: ''Ruby Sparks'' smartly picks apart romantic tropes, but...
Film: Socially inept boy meets cute, oddball girl. Boy woos girl. Despite his self-absorbed neuroses, girl loves boy just the way he is. Girl doesn't change, ever. Through the awesome power of her...
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Pop-Up Books: The DC Center's OutWrite offers a pop-up gay bookstore
Books: Next weekend, D.C. gets its own pop-up gay bookstore. "We are temporarily taking over the empty storefront right next to the center,'' explains The DC Center's David Mariner. ''There are so many...
View ArticleNational LGBT Briefs: Heartland Horror, Massachusetts Mensch And Marriage...
News: Apparent Lincoln Hate Crime Stirs Community Community members are rallying around a Lincoln, Neb., woman following a Sunday, July 22, home invasion during which, she says, three masked attackers...
View ArticleWorld LGBT Briefs: Women on the Verge: Liberian President Sirleaf says she...
News: Liberian Legislature Takes Up Anti-Gay Bills While the Liberian House of Representatives considers a bill to make sex between people of the same gender a first-degree felony, the country's...
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A Progressive Pushes Back: Karen Gautney hopes to become the first lesbian...
News: Karen Gautney has always been a fighter. And bullies – whether neighborhood troublemakers or legislators in Richmond – don't scare her. A lesbian resident of the commonwealth, Gautney is running...
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Boy Scout Fallout: Opponents rally after Boy Scouts uphold gay ban
News: Pressure is mounting on the Boy Scouts of America in the wake of the organization's decision last week to uphold a ban on out gay members and leaders. Thousands have lent their names to multiple...
View ArticleKeeping Up with AIDS 2012: Conference continues in the convention center, in...
News: Though the official start for the XIX International AIDS Conference – marking the conference's return to the U.S. after a 22-year absence due to the now-repealed HIV travel ban – was Sunday...
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