| Feature Story | Coming Out ''Mike-sexual'' | Real World's Mike Manning talks about God, government and going both ways | Interview by Will O'Bryan Photography by Todd Franson |
| News | Departure at PFLAG | Local PFLAG chapter's executive director announces exit | by Yusef Najafi |
| News | No Camera, Lots of Action | First day of California Proposition 8 trial puts forward arguments for – and against – marriage equality | By Lisa Keen Keen News Service |
| News | Another Loss for Marriage | With the legislature voting no, the New Jersey fight for marriage equality turns to the courts | By Chuck Colbert Keen News Service |
| News | ''Ex-gay'' Mother Disappears with Daughter | A bitter custody dispute escalates as a mother defies court orders in two states to comply with custody decision | By Dana Rudolph Keen News Service Originally published January 5, 2010 |
| News | Southeast Slaying | MPD asking the LGBT community for information regarding gay man's homicide | by Yusef Najafi Originally published January 5, 2010 |
| News | Madness and Marriage | Kennedy Center mainstay welcomes its first same-sex proposal | by Will O'Bryan |
| News | Fighting Words | A free-speech split emerges in the LGBT community over bus ads promoting an end to D.C. marriage equality | by Yusef Najafi Originally published January 5, 2010 |
| Dining | Delicious Deals | Restaurant Week | By Doug Rule |
| Film | Hormonal Activity | Youth in Revolt is obsessed with sex, sex, sex, while Crazy Heart offers washed-up redemption, country style | by Tim Plant |
| Music | Metric System | Metric draws much of its influence from club music, while Polly Scattergood captures the depressed mood of the times | By Doug Rule |
| Clublife | Going Green | Halo becomes MOVA as the lounge prepares changes and expansion. | By Doug Rule |
| Opinion | Free To Be | Free speech deserves to be defended, especially when it offends us | by Sean Bugg |
| Opinion | Coming Out Conservative | GOProud's sponsorship of CPAC is a step forward, despite opposition from gay left | by Christopher R. Barron |
| Opinion | Feedback Farrago | End-of-year downtime allows for some examination of the virtual in-box | by Richard J. Rosendall |
| Horoscope | Horoscope | January 7-13, 2010 | |
| Snapshots | Town Danceboutique's New Year's Eve Party | Town Danceboutique | Ward Morrison |
| Snapshots | Shift New Year's Eve Party | Cobalt | Ward Morrison |
| Snapshots | Ziegfeld's / Secrets New Year's Eve Party | Ziegfeld's / Secrets | Ward Morrison |