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MOST ELIGIBLE SINGLES: Kate Ross
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Kate Ross (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)
Name: Kate Ross
Age: 33
Occupation: Owner, Ross Business Management. Working with entrepreneurs, musicians and artists by serving as an outsourced CFO. Co-founder, the Coven D.C., serving the LGBT community by providing places to dance, play, educate and get to know each other.
Identify as: Gay
What are you looking for in a mate? Compassionate, a good sense of humor, dog lover, someone who can keep things in perspective, someone who is passionate about something, someone who will approach me first because I am shy, someone who likes to go to shows, someone who takes less time to get ready than me.
Biggest turn-off: Bad hygiene. I have a very sensitive nose.
Biggest turn-on: Kindness, because we need more of this in the world.
Hobbies: Shopping for hair extensions online.
Describe your ideal first date: I don’t know what my ideal date is, preferably somewhere we can talk. Surprise me!
Favorite TV show: I don’t usually pick favorites, it depends how I’m feeling.
Celebrity crush: Angel Haze
One obscure fact about yourself: I once was a rapper named Lab Rat. Here’s a second for good measure: I worked at Colonial Williamsburg in costume for 10 years.
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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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