Obey Your Thirst: Marco Rubio's badly timed parch was just another...
Opinion: The post-State of the Union social media explosion of mirth over Sen. Marco Rubio's slurp heard round the world — a phrase that appeared so quickly and ubiquitously that I don't even know who...
View ArticleLove's Lens: Duo breaks new ground with photography guide for same-sex weddings
Feature Story: It seems that in Kathryn Hamm's family there is a tradition of harnessing necessity. In her mother's case, that meant launching an online business to connect same-sex couples to wedding...
View ArticleFrom Covert to Commercial: Images from decades past illustrate a homoerotic...
Feature Story: In 1966, photographer Marie Cosindas captured a seductive image of two shirtless male sailors posing in cozy, close quarters: one reclining sideways and open-legged on a rug, the other...
View ArticleAn Eye for It All: Photographer and filmmaker Amanda Lucidon shares the...
Feature Story: When Amanda Lucidon and her husband made the decision to move back East from California, the motivation was to be near family. That she'd been working as a photojournalist for the...
View ArticleVisions of Love: Images from past and present, celebratory and solemn,...
Feature Story: Harvey Milk was famous for, among other things, imploring gay people to come out. Milk knew the power of visibility. He's not alone. That's not always easy, though. Sometimes the world...
View ArticleVirginians Rally for Marriage: Courthouses across the commonwealth forced to...
News: It's a bittersweet Valentine's Day for Virginians like Janice Canterbury and Nadia Malley. The Arlington couple of 14 years has weathered a bout with cancer, a house fire, the deaths of family...
View ArticleD.C. Is Tops in Gallup's LGBT Tally: District bests all 50 states for highest...
News: An analysis of recent Gallup polls surveying those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender has found the District has the highest percentage in the United States of self-identified...
View ArticleMemorial Set for Dan Massey: Local pioneer of sexual freedom movement, 70,...
News: In some ways an ally, in some ways a member, Dan Massey was inarguably an advocate for the LGBT – and queer – community, as well as a visionary of sexual freedom for all. Massey died of cancer...
View ArticleIHOP Shooting Suspect Arraigned: LaShawn Carson, accused of shooting gay man,...
News: The Washington woman accused of shooting a gay man at an IHOP restaurant in Columbia Heights last year, during an altercation where she and two friends allegedly made derogatory comments toward...
View ArticleFurr Appealing Conviction: MPD officer found guilty of off-duty assault and...
News: A lawyer for Kenneth Furr, the Metropolitan Police Department officer found guilty of an off-duty assault with a dangerous weapon and solicitation of prostitution, filed a notice with D.C....
View ArticleBy Design: Artisphere presents a months-long festival celebrating design as art
Art: Douglas Burton has spent well more than a decade focused on showcasing and celebrating the latest designs and designers. ''I'm passionate about design, and I love sharing the new things that are...
View ArticleWigging Out for Charity: JR.'s plays host this Saturday to Wig Night Out, an...
Clublife: ''Fifteen years ago when I came out, my parents had a really hard time with it, particularly my mother,'' Jack Jacobson says. But now? Things have come full circle – or at least full wig....
View ArticleAnd the Oscar Goes To...: Our film critic takes a hard-nosed look at the...
Film: There are only three things certain in life: death, taxes and petty arguments about the Oscars. (Well, four if you count Joan Rivers. She will outlive us all.) There's an inherent ridiculousness...
View ArticleGoing Weill: The InSeries offers a musical revue celebrating Kurt Weill
Stage: ''I'm not sure the new generation really knows who he is, or his place in musical theater history,'' Abel Lopez says of Kurt Weill. The composer is best known for The Threepenny Opera and its...
View ArticleMagical Metamorphoses: From academic to entertaining, Mary Zimmerman offers a...
Stage: Mary Zimmerman is a professor at Northwestern University, and her show Metamorphoses had its genesis as an academic exercise there nearly two decades ago. But if you let that scare you away from...
View Article25 Gay Films Everyone Should See, Part 3D:
Feature Story: Okay. I know you're thinking, ''Why 3D? What gay films are in 3D? Are there even 25 gay films that were made in 3D?'' Well, apart from the XXX-rated 3D film Reel Affirmations showed one...
View ArticleFundraising on Fear: Rallying the faithful against gays distorts...
Opinion: ''No I honestly don't [think gays have a purpose in life]. Sorry, but I don't,'' proclaimed Diana Medley, the now infamous Indiana special education teacher. Medley has found herself,...
View ArticleBully for You: The religious right's campaign to cast themselves as victims...
Opinion: One thing about living in Virginia is that it makes you sensitive to small victories. While my friends in D.C. and Maryland enjoy the local legal benefits of getting gay married, my husband...
View ArticleDaniel Hernandez on Giffords, Guns and Community Inolvement: With a new...
News: Shortly after 10 a.m., Jan. 8, 2011, Daniel Hernandez heard what he thought were fireworks at an event for Rep. Gabby Giffords in the parking lot of a Safeway outside Tucson, Ariz. ''Ten minutes...
View ArticleSuspect in Transgender Assault Case Reprimanded: D.C. Superior Court judge...
News: A D.C. Superior Court judge this morning reprimanded Ahmad Robinson, accused of attacking a transgender woman in D.C.'s Chinatown neighborhood in August, for not complying with release terms....
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