Arts & Entertainment
Out & About: DC (April 20)
GMCW ensembles to perform, Stonewall Dems honor Frank and more

Potomac Fever, an ensemble that's part of the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, performs this weekend. Joshua Bennett takes lead in this file photo. (Blade file photo by Michael Key)
Chorus’s smaller ensembles join forces
The Gay Men’s Chorus outreach ensembles, Potomac Fever and Rock Creek Singers, perform Saturday at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church (1313 New York Ave., N.W.) at 5 and 8 p.m.
Selections from the ensembles will include songs like Cee Lo Green’s “Forget You,” George Michael’s “Faith” and classics like “Make Them Hear You” and “If We Only Had Love.”
These performances will also be recorded live for the groups’ next album.
Tickets are $35 and available online at gmcw.org.
Gay Democrats to honor Frank
The National Stonewall Democrats will honor Congressman Barney Frank at its Capital Champions reception on Tuesday at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters building (25 Louisiana Ave., N.W.) from 7 to 9 p.m.
Standard tickets are $100, host tickets are $250 and include two tickets and a listing in the program and student and non-profit tickets are $65.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit stonewalldemocrats.org.
Dancing in Dupont
In the Circle Productions presents “Dance in the Circle” on Saturday in the center of Dupont Circle Park from 3 to 9 p.m.
The event will feature performances and instruction in various styles of dance from dance companies across the D.C. area such as Bomb Squad Dancers, Calico Cloggers, DCypher Dance, Urban Artistry and more.
There will also be a sound system, DJ and dance floor set up in the park.
For more information, visit danceinthecircle.org.
HRC hosts lecture on gender non-conforming children
Human Rights Campaign is kicking on its new speaker series “Equality Talks” on Monday with a conversation with Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D., author of “Gender Born, Gender Made: Raising Healthy Gender-Nonconforming Children,” at the HRC building (1640 Rhode Island Ave., N.W.) at 6 p.m.
Ehrensaft, a developmental and clinical psychologist and director of mental health at the newly formed Child and Adolescent Center in the San Francisco Bay Area, will use clinical experiences and personal experiences as a mother of a gender-nonconforming child to present her theories of gender and advice for parents.
For more information and to RSVP for the event, visit hrc.org/equalitytalks.
Baltimore
This John Waters interview has been edited for readability — but perhaps not human decency
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By WESLEY CASE | At 80 years old, John Waters is still the ideal dinner guest — incisively sharp, quick-witted and funny as hell.
The chic Baltimore native proved it again and again in a recent Zoom interview, calling from his summer home in Provincetown, Mass.
The occasion was the Blu-ray releases of two of his movies — the 1977 dark comedy “Desperate Living” and his enduring 1988 musical “Hairspray” — on June 23 by the Criterion Collection, which publishes restorations of films it deems culturally important. The Criterion stamp of approval has become the gold standard among cinephiles.
“It’s like getting an award,” said Waters, who wrote and directed both films.
The rest of this article can be read on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
The Washington Blade held the seventh annual Pride on the Pier at The Wharf DC on Saturday, June 13.
(Washington Blade photos by Landon Shackelford)



















The 2026 Lost River Pride Festival was held on the scenic grounds of the Lost River Farmers Market in Lost City, W.Va. on Saturday, June 13. Headliner Tom Goss performed at the festival and gave a second performance at the nearby Guesthouse Lost River.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)




















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