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Homeless USA Cup Soccer at the New Kastles Stadium

The Homeless USA Cup brought street soccer players from across the country to Washington, D.C.’s new Kastles Stadium this weekend. The team from Minneapolis won the championship game, Sunday June 29, 2008. At top right, one player from New York City is overjoyed to learn he has been picked to join the the US team that will travel to the Homeless World Cup in Melbourne, Australia.

Kastles Stadium is the newly created stadium at 11th & H, NW, for the World TeamTennis Pro League Washington Kastles, featuring Serena Williams and Justin Gimelstob, who will have their home opener at the stadium on July 8.

Published June 30, 2008 in Sports. Photography by Joe Tresh (RSS).
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Ships and Dip III Sails Away

Passengers board the Carnival Victory for Ships and Dip III, a rock-and-roll cruise with Barenaked Ladies, Guster, Carbon Leaf, Great Big Sea and others, January 27, 2008. These two are dressed to fit the Tacky Tourist theme of the day. At right, passengers board the ship underneath one of the ship’s features they don’t want to use - lifeboats.

Members of Barenaked Ladies (BNL) perform a “Sail Away Set” on the Lido deck during disembarkation. From left to right: Ed Robertson singing, Kevin Hearn on accordion, Tyler Stewart drumming, and Jim Creeggan intent on his upright bass. Below, Steven Page belts out a loud one.

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Published June 27, 2008 in Music. Photography by (RSS).
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One Man’s Pride

Danny Guyton, from Bethesda, MD, during the Capital Pride Festival, Sunday, June 15th, 2008, in Washington, D.C. Guyton can be seen yelling at the anti-gay protesters’ bullhorn the night before in the the WaPhoJo video “Anti-Gay Bullhorn Protest Met With Crowd Ridicule,” which was published last week. Asked about that moment, he recalled he was arguing to the protesters that they were misinterpreting a “glorious book … of love.”

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Capital Pride 2008

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Published June 25, 2008 in LGBT Life. Photography by (RSS).
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Smiling Capital Pride 2008 Faces

George Johnson, 19, from Gaithersburg, MD, greets visitors to the Capital Pride Festival, Sunday, June 15th, 2008, Washington, D.C. by inviting them to join the Human Rights Campaign.

“Quality Virgins” Seth Croft from Richmond, VA, and Esteban Hernandez of Arlington, VA, man the Equality Virginia booth at the Capital Pride Festival.