As we continue our look at LGBT history in the runup to the Capital Pride Festival, we will look at some of the bars on Capitol Hill that catered to the LGBT community over the years. According to the Rainbow History Projects walking tour of Capitol Hill, the earliest site was 500 8th Street SE, where […]
The carnival at RFK is back next weekend! Now under the auspices of Broccoli City, the immensely successful event and community organizers who brought us the Broccoli City Festival back in April, the carnival, officially called The Smile Project: Carnival & Concert, will take over the post-apocalyptic parking lots of RFK for four glorious days: […]
While it has become less and less the case, Washington can be a reserved place where the status quo limits change, and passion and action-oriented enthusiasm gets squashed. There is no such tamping down in the award-winning Bedlam Theatre Company’s production of Saint Joan at the Folger Theatre. Joan and her message are as powerful as a […]
Over the next three weeks, leading up to the Capital Pride Festival, beginning on June 7, I will look at some of the sites connected with LGBT history on the Hill. We will start today with the place where many of my stories end: Congressional Cemetery. In the 1980s, at the height of the AIDS […]
This week's open houses around Capitol Hill and surrounding areas. Be our neighbor!