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MOST ELIGIBLE SINGLES: Justin Fyala
Meet D.C.’s top 20 LGBT bachelors and bachelorettes
Justin Fyala (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)
Name: Justin Fyala
Age: 34
Occupation: executive director, Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington
Identify as: gay
What are you looking for in a mate? Intelligence, patience, kindness and honesty. Must like traveling, art and music events, adventures, good dogs and good food. Must accept my odd work schedule and laugh at my bad jokes.
Biggest turn-off: Indifference
Biggest turn-on: A large vocabulary
Hobbies: Reading, hiking, cars, botany, swimming and dancing
Describe your ideal first date: To share a drink and a meal, then be taken to one of my date’s favorite places. Bonus points if no one else knows it’s your favorite place.
Pets, kids or neither? pets
Would you date someone whose political views differ from yours? I would consider dating a fiscally conservative-leaning person, but not one who voted for a conspirator.
Celebrity crush: Adele and Meryl Streep, in equal measure
One obscure fact about yourself: My ears are featured in medical textbooks.
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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