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Rocking the Chamber: From networking to awards to community outreach, 2012...

Business: For those of you who are reading about the Chamber for the first time, it's short for Capital Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce; to everyone else, congratulations! You know who we are,...

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Floyd Lee Corkins Status Conference Continued: Status hearing rescheduled for...

News: The status conference of a Herndon, Va., man accused of shooting a security guard at the D.C headquarters of the anti-LGBT Family Research Council (FRC) was continued Monday in U.S. District...

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Art as Politics: Touchstone Gallery offers an Inauguration-inspired group show

Art: ''When do I get to vote on YOUR marriage?'' That's the question posed on a rainbow-bedecked T-shirt worn by one older, presumably gay, white man, captured in a group photo by Michael Lang. And...

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Commitment to a Cure: HIV/AIDS legislation allowed to die in the last...

Opinion: As an emigrant from a developing country in Sub-Saharan Africa, I know firsthand what HIV/AIDS has done to my home country. In 1990, 1992 and 1995, I lost my youngest sister, my father and...

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Haggling over Chuck Hagel: For our LGBT community to move forward on...

Opinion: Everything old is new again. What goes around, comes around. Pissing in the wind brings ill returns. There are simply so, so many clichés to reach for when it comes to the nomination of former...

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''Howard Three'' Accept Plea Deal: Three accused of stabbing gay 16-year-old...

News: Three individuals accused of stabbing and attempting to rob a gay minor in front of the D.C.'s Howard Theatre in June pleaded guilty yesterday to various charges stemming from the incident as...

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Furr Sentenced to Probation, Community Service: Off-duty MPD officer accused...

News: Kenneth Furr, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer accused of shooting his service weapon while off-duty at a car of five people, including two transgender women, was sentenced today...

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Activists Blast Furr Sentence: DC Trans Coalition and GLOV say punishment...

News: Members of the District's LGBT community are slamming the decision yesterday by D.C. Superior Court Judge Russell Canan to suspend the sentence of Metropolitan Police Department Officer Kenneth...

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Trans Rights Top Maryland Activists' ''To-Do'' List: Many organizations...

News: If the third time wasn't quite the charm, maybe the seventh time will be, with some of Maryland's LGBT community leaders hopeful that 2013 will be the year a gender-identity nondiscrimination...

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Coverboy: Nigel: As the Mr. DC Eagle soars

Coverboy Interview: Call him the MacGyver of the gay world. Armed with only a passport and his self-confidence, U.K.-born Nigel loves seeking out new, exciting activities and can adapt to changing...

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Gay Judge Confirmed by Virginia Legislature: House, Senate vote to confirm...

News: The Virginia General Assembly voted today to confirm Richmond General District Court Judge Tracy Thorne-Begland, Virginia's first out gay judge, to the bench. Thorne-Begland has been serving on...

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The Uncivil War over Jodie Foster: We all need to talk about what ''coming...

Opinion: Rather than my usual rambling preamble I'll jump right in because I have limited space and this topic inspires a vomitous number of words: Jodie Foster did not come out during her rambling...

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Sexually Speaking: Jefferson hosts sex-positive storytelling events at Black...

Stage: ''I would get up and tell a story that might take place in an orgy or something … and I could see the NPR crowd at the Moth going, 'Who's this guy and what's he talking about?''' The man in...

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Family Ties: Sifting the 20th century like panhandlers, TACT has surfaced yet...

Stage: For those who squirm at the mere mention of the word "vaudeville," a quick glance at the The American Century Theater's ad for The Show Off, with its in-your-face boater-wearing showman, is...

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Progressive Pop: Erin McKeown serves up powerful, tuneful progressive fight...

Music: Did you know Rachel Maddow wrote a song? ''I asked her if she wanted to sing it,'' says Erin McKeown. "She refused. She describes her singing voice as 'weapon-grade.''' So McKeown just sings the...

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Political Parties: Your guide to Inauguration-pegged nightlife in D.C.

Clublife: It's never as magical the second time around, but the second inauguration of President Barack Obama definitely offers plenty new to celebrate. After all, since the first inauguration in 2009...

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Better Business Blogging: Some pro tips on getting the most out of your blog,...

Business: In 1999, Peter Merholz jokingly used the term ''we blog'' and in a cyber moment the creator of peterme.com renamed the weblog, as the platform was originally known. In October 2012 the...

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Bryce Caine Wins Mr. MAL 2013: Pittsburgh man continues keystone streak for...

News: Pittsburgh native Bryce Caine won the Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather 2013 contest Jan. 13, held as part of the Centaur Motorcycle Club's 29th Leather Weekend, a three-day event based at the Hyatt...

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Giglio Illustrates Advance: With the anti-gay reverend out of the...

Opinion: If you want to be effective as an activist, you learn that everything is not about you. For example, you don't have to be religious to respect other people's religion, or to employ religious...

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Frank Talk: Barney Frank's decades-long House career has come to a close, but...

Feature Story: Barney Frank is office-less a few hours after the Jan. 3 swearing-in ceremony for the 113th Congress, having moved out of the large office he once occupied in the Rayburn House Office...

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