POEFV Rallies On: Virginia interfaith group holds rescheduled Loudon Co....
News: A group of about 50 people, led by the pro-LGBT group People of Faith for Equality in Virginia (POFEV), gathered behind the Loudoun County Circuit Courthouse in Leesburg, Va., at noon Thursday,...
View ArticleCharge Against Sahle Dropped: Simple assault case from Manny and Olga's...
News: A D.C. Superior Court judge last week disposed a case against one of two women accused in the June beating a local drag performer in a take-out restaurant following the accused woman's completion...
View ArticleLHP Ceremony Celebrates Women: D.C. LGBT Latino group holds third annual...
News: The Latino GLBT History Project (LHP) will offer its third annual ''Mujeres en el Movimiento'' awards ceremony and networking happy hour Friday, March 28, honoring Latina lesbians in the D.C....
View ArticleNGLF Camp Applications Open: Leadership foundation readies its inaugural...
News: For some youths, summer camp provides all the traditional offerings of canoeing, cabins and popsicle-stick crafts. For the select 20 who will spend a June week in Washington as participants in...
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Hair Apparent: Keegan Theatre lets the sunshine in with a rousing, energized...
Feature Story: ''I feel like it's one of the greatest achievements of our career,'' says Keegan Theatre's Susan Rhea of the company's current production of Hair. ''I feel more proud than I've ever felt...
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Cherry's Blossom Is Back: The Cherry Fund's annual spring dance party returns...
Clublife: ''After such a brutal winter, D.C. deserves a special weekend,'' says the Cherry Fund's James Decker. Of course, the weekend he has in mind will require just a little more patience. But Kurt...
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Love Is the Drug: It may get off to a slow start, but most will likely find...
Opera: Although people often call Donizetti's rom-com The Elixir of Love a good opera for the uninitiated, director Stephen Lawless's production requires a caveat: Remember that old-fashioned thing...
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Andrew Barnett's Goodbye: SMYAL's longtime leader stepping down to pursue...
News: After nearly a decade, Andrew Barnett is bidding the organization he has worked for goodbye. The 31-year-old Barnett, who started as an intern and later rose up the ranks to executive director of...
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Washington Wordsmith: Regie Cabico is sharing the art of celebrating syntax
Events: "People think it's karaoke, but it's not karaoke," Regie Cabico says about the weekly variety show he runs at Black Fox Lounge. "You really do need to know your song, you need to know what...
View ArticleThe Universe in Us: We are surrounded by social and physical frontiers we can...
Opinion: Carl Sagan, host of the original 1980 Cosmos series, said we are made of star stuff, because our atoms were created billions of years ago inside a star. Sagan's words are echoed by Neil...
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Boy Wonder: Though he's far less shocking than he was 30 years ago, Boy...
Feature Story: "That's got more swing than a hooker with a broken heel and a brick in her handbag." In addition to a steady flow of swinging deep house tunes, Boy George's Club Culture podcast also...
View ArticleStepping Out: Dissonance Dance's Black to Silver festival celebrates ''black...
Events: "I can't think of many dance concerts that I've seen where it's been two black men dancing a story that was LGBT," says Shawn Short, head of Dissonance Dance Theatre. And those stray dance...
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Acting American: ''Spelling Bee'' and ''Hair'' fill their stages with...
Stage: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is as American as apple pie -- especially as portrayed in the new production at Ford's Theatre. The musical about contestants and characters at a...
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German Engineering: disappear fear's SONiA reflects on her experiences in...
Music: Sonia Rutstein recently met a man in Germany who inquired about her name. ''Oh, 'Rutstein.' This is a German name. Are you German?'' she recalls the man asking. ''And I said, 'Well, I was once.'...
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Twin Birthdays: April 4 should be a date that lives in humanity's aspirations
Opinion: Celebrating my husband's birthday last week, there were a couple unintentional themes at play. I'd taken him to Puerto Rico for a long weekend, a place where it's impossible for me as a...
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Bowser Beats Gray for Dem Nomination: Ward 4 councilmember romps in...
News: District voters went to the polls April 1 to select nominees from each of the city's four major political parties for various offices in this November's general election, turning incumbent Mayor...
View ArticleNext Gen Nominations Open: NGLF on the lookout for 2013's outstanding young...
News: The Next Generation Leadership Foundation (NGLF), the D.C.-based, national nonprofit aimed at encouraging and mentoring LGBT youth leaders, announced Thursday that it has opened nominations for...
View ArticleOHR Launches ''#safebathroomsDC'': New campaign aimed at enforcing city...
News: The D.C. Office of Human Rights (OHR) today launched a new public-awareness campaign, ''Safe Bathrooms DC,'' aimed at making it easier for transgender people in the District to access facilities...
View ArticleGLOV Co-Chair Leaving: Tuesday fundraiser offers a chance to celebrate Hassan...
News: The local Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV) group, a program of The DC Center and one of the key community partners in combating area hate crimes, is hosting a fundraiser social Tuesday,...
View ArticleThe ''Sore Winners'' Fallacy: Those who call gay people intolerant for...
Opinion: Several prominent gay writers deplored the furor that brought down Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla Corp. last week for supporting California's anti-gay Proposition 8. Andrew Sullivan blogged...
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