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MOST ELIGIBLE SINGLES: Carlos Maza
Meet D.C.’s top 20 LGBT bachelors and bachelorettes
Carlos Maza (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)
Name: Carlos Maza
Age: 28
Occupation: Video producer
Identify as: Existentially anxious, but also a gay male
What are you looking for in a mate? Previously: intelligence, ambition, compassion, an unsettling sense of humor. Now: survival skills.
Biggest turn-off: A guy who takes himself too seriously. Come on, man.
Biggest turn-on: When someone does something that scares them because they want to conquer the self-doubt in their head.
Hobbies: Every time I get asked this question I remember that I have literally no interesting hobbies. Miniature horse racing? I race miniature horses that I steal from traffickers. Let’s go with that.
Describe your ideal first date: Anything that gets me to forget about worrying about the fate of the country for 30 minutes.
Favorite TV show: “The Walking Dead”
Celebrity crush: Alyssa Edwards
One obscure fact about yourself: My high school principal made me shut down my VERY funny Xanga because I was being too mean to other high school debaters on it.
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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