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Liquor board suspends Ziegfeld’s/Secrets license

Liquor board suspends Ziegfeld’s/Secrets license

Activists, customers denounce sex-related charges as unfair, ‘silly’

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Betts murder draws attention to gay pick-up crimes

Betts murder draws attention to gay pick-up crimes

Police report three gay chat-line incidents since December

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Death of patron forces nightclub’s early closing

Death of patron forces nightclub’s early closing

Town Danceboutique, a gay D.C. nightclub, closed about two hours early at 1 a.m. Sunday after a patron collapsed on the dance floor and was pronounced dead a short time later. Town co-owner Ed Bailey said paramedics, who arrived on the scene within minutes after the club called 911, indicated the man suffered a heart [...]

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Eleven individuals and one organization were recognized Tuesday at the Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance Distinguished Service Awards. The recipients included DC Agenda senior news reporter Lou Chibbaro Jr. GLAA described Chibbaro as “the standard-bearer for gay-focused journalism” in D.C. who has spent more than 30 years “chasing down leads to get to the bottom of all manner of stories related to the LGBT community.” Awards also went to Joan Biren, Sean Bugg, Michael Crawford, Rev. Monique Ellison, Brian Flowers, Mark Levine, David Mariner, Nick McCoy, Brian Moore and Sultan Shakir. D.C. Clergy United for Marriage Equality, co-chaired by pastors Dennis Wiley, Christine Wiley and Rob Hardies, also won recognition. (DC Agenda photo by Michael Key)

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GLAA honors local leaders & more

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Brian Betts (Photo by Bel Perez Gabilondo; courtesy of D.C. Public Schools)

Slain D.C. middle school principal was gay

Brian Betts hailed as innovative educator, hero to students

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New GLLU officers welcomed at reception & more

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GLOV elects new co-chairs

GLOV elects new co-chairs

Members of Gays & Lesbians Opposing Violence, also known GLOV, voted at their monthly meeting Jan. 29 to elect D.C. residents Kelly Pickard and Joe Montoni as the group’s new co-chairs. The two succeed outgoing co-chairs Chris Farris and Tod Metrokin, who are credited with reactivating GLOV a little more than a year ago after [...]

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