A Pox on Purity: Absolutes and perfection are extremes best suited to fantasy
Opinion: In political advocacy, as in statecraft, purity is a luxury an effective practitioner cannot afford. The tea party's aggressive push for ideological purity has yielded a GOP at war with itself...
View ArticleIt's the ENDA the World (as We Know It): A lack of divine wrath over marriage...
Opinion: About five years into Barack Obama's socialistic — or fascistic, depending on which side of the bed congressional Republicans woke up on this morning — reign of terror imposing homosexuality...
View ArticleLGBT Outlook on Virginia's Special Elections: Election Day vacancies put...
News: Just hours after Sen. Ralph Northam (D-Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Mathews, Accomack, Northampton counties) declared victory in the race for lieutenant governor of Virginia Tuesday night, three...
View ArticleMizeur Wins Progressive Neighbors Endorsement: Montgomery Co. grassroots...
News: Del. Heather Mizeur (D-Montgomery Co.), seeking to become Maryland's governor – which could give the state its first female governor and the country its first out lesbian governor – has earned...
View ArticleRounding Out Stein's Slate: Incumbent president, vice president announce...
News: The two executive committee officers running for re-election to lead the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the District's largest LGBT political organization, have announced three newcomers who...
View ArticleActivists Applaud DOC: Amended policy allows shaving exception for...
News: The D.C. Department of Corrections (DOC) has amended its policy to permit transgender female inmates to shave, even when other inmates may not be permitted to use razors themselves, according to...
View ArticleWWH Secures Federal Recognition: Federally Qualified Health Center...
News: Whitman-Walker Health, the nonprofit community health center specializing in HIV/AIDS and LGBT-sensitive health care, was recognized Nov. 8 as a Federally Qualified Health Center by the U.S....
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Launch Pad: Xbox One vs. PS4: There's plenty to tempt gamers of all creeds...
Feature Story: PS4 Killzone With two new consoles launching this holiday season, it can be difficult to choose which is more deserving of your hard-earned dollars. Each has a unique lineup of exclusive...
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Aisha Tyler: Girl on Game: Aisha Tyler's busy life may have cut into her...
Feature Story: "The Walking Dead, that game broke me." Aisha Tyler is sitting in a cramped, cluttered side room within the Ubisoft encampment at E3, the video game industry's massive annual expo,...
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Game Change: The State of LGBT Gaming: LGBT characters have played roles in...
Feature Story: I love being a gamer. The exhilarating feeling of loading up a new game, the potential new worlds and experiences awaiting me, the joy of wandering through a creation designed to...
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Transgender Day of Remembrance's Double Duty: Memorial event honors victims...
News: As Washington's LGBT community puts the final touches on a ceremony marking the Transgender Day of Remembrance, Nov. 20, the mood of this year's D.C. event is likely to be underscored by the...
View ArticleListening and Learning: Laws give us rights, but our stories make us human
Opinion: With the holidays around the corner, plenty of us are bound to find ourselves in alien surroundings. It might be at the family home of a new romantic interest for Thanksgiving dinner. A...
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Haunted Theater: Keegan Theatre's The Woman in Black is a good ghost story...
Stage: Another Halloween has already come and gone, but a mysterious specter is still haunting the stage at the Keegan Theatre. Maybe if its full story is told, the ghost and its unspeakable horrors...
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It's a Thin Line: STC offers a powerful vision of all that is possible and...
Stage: It is hard to see Yael Farber's play Mies Julie without reflecting on J.M. Coetzee's extraordinary novel Disgrace. Both set in post-apartheid South Africa, each in its own way grapples with the...
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English Lesson: Nigel Williams reflects on his year as Mr. DC Eagle, billed...
Clublife: Next year, Nigel Williams turns 40. He insists the four-decade mark is causing him none of the midlife angst it does for so many. ''I think I have that more European mindset,'' says Williams,...
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Wowing with Women's Wednesdays: Upcoming Chamber event looks at DOMA ruling's...
Business: Among the chief benefits of membership in the Capital Area Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, aka The Chamber, according to many members, are the numerous opportunities for networking...
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Acceptance Speech: ''I Am My Own Wife'' pricks at questions challenging our...
Stage: ''Have we really come very far in terms of acceptance?'' Actor Michael Stebbins says that's a question provoked by the play I Am My Own Wife, whose central character is Charlotte von Mahlsdorf....
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Edie's Follies: L'Enfant Cafe presents Jeffrey Johnson's Edie Beale revival
Stage: Relatively few people ever got the chance to see Edie Beale perform cabaret. ''She was getting calls from all over the world, and she just didn't want to do it,'' Jeffrey Johnson says of Beale...
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Survival Instinct: Commerce meets compassion in ''Dallas Buyers Club,'' the...
Film: The American dream, more than whatever else, is a longing for health and wealth. We want to live and make good livings. So, naturally, the people who embody those basic ambitions fascinate us....
View ArticleOne Gay Man's Russia: Asylum seeker again shares his story with D.C. audience
News: In the comfortable second-floor meeting space of Dupont Circle's Le Mirch restaurant Wednesday evening, Nov. 13, the conversation had zero to do with anything so pleasant as fine dining. Instead,...
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