| Feature Story | Sweet 16 | Celebrating Metro Weekly's birthday with 16 of our favorite covers | Text by Sean Bugg Photography by Todd Franson Models: Roger Reavis and Edwin Brownell |
| News | Moving to MAP | In the midst of uncertainty with DADT, Palm Center's Nathaniel Frank moving to broad-based LGBT think tank | by Chris Geidner |
| News | Mya Homecoming | Local singer to headline 2010 Capital Pride Festival | by Yusef Najafi |
| News | Culture and Recruiting | Latino LGBT History Project offers open house ahead of Pride; seeking immigration experts | by Yusef Najafi |
| News | Bruce Onboard | GOProud starts an advisory board, naming ''Independent Conservative'' lesbian radio show host Tammy Bruce to take the lead | by Chris Geidner |
| News | Commissions Calling | Presidential Appointments Project's new push promotes LGBT candidates for unpaid positions | by Will O'Bryan |
| News | Wone Reckoning | Restraints, sex toys, blocked from trial | by Yusef Najafi |
| Film | Iron Fortified | Iron Man 2 is most fun when being the least serious, but when soul-searching takes center stage, it drags the film down | by Tim Plant |
| Music | Icelandic Surprise | Jónsi's solo debut surprises for its fiery music with pop power, while Bitch refines her theatrical punk approach | By Doug Rule |
| Stage | Young Bucks | Graham Hamilton plays Hamlet with a creeping and dark charisma, while Tom Carman meets his match in Mrs. Robinson | By Tom Avila |
| Clublife | DJ SPIN-OFF | All this month Cobalt hosts the first amateur DJ contest focused on relative unknowns in D.C. nightlife. | By Doug Rule |
| Opinion | Focusing Forward | Everyone loves celebrating a birthday, but it's not the most important part of the magazine | by Sean Bugg |
| Opinion | Pentagon's Perilous Pause | Gates and Mullen owe servicemembers leadership in repealing DADT, not caution | by Will O'Bryan |
| Opinion | Where Truman led, Obama defers | It's time for President Obama to lead the way for repeal this year of ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' | by Aubrey Sarvis |
| Horoscope | Horoscope | May 6-12, 2010 | by Carrie Megginson |
| Video | Daly Dose of the Arts [video] | The Creative Coalition's Tim Daly on the state of the arts in America | Interview: Randy Shulman Video/Editing: Aram Vartian |
| Video | Youth Pride Day on Stage [video] | SMYAL, Michelle Raymond and Private Tails perform at DC's 2010 Youth Pride festival | Videos by David Uy |
| Video | ''Raising the Roof'' at Town [video] | The cast of Fiddler on the Roof raises more than $6,000 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS | Video/Editing: Aram Vartian Producer: Aram Vartian |
| Snapshots | Metro Weekly's Next Generation Awards Reception | The Donovan House Hotel Rooftop, ADC | Ward Morrison |
| Snapshots | Youth Pride Day | P Street Beach | Cavin Le and Randy Shulman |
| Snapshots | Amateur Dancer Contest | Ziegfeld's / Secrets | Ward Morrison |
| Snapshots | Whitman-Walker Clinic's Annual Gala | Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium | Ward Morrison |