| Feature Story | Finding Hope | Adam Tenner of Metro TeenAIDS greets this year's World AIDS Day with newfound optimism | Interview by Will O'Bryan Photography by Todd Franson |
| News | Two Decades and Change | With the HIV travel ban lifted, the District will host the International AIDS Conference's return to the U.S. in 2012 | by Chris Geidner |
| News | Editing for Inclusion | D.C. police department will amend hate-crime report to include transgender data, says city's LGBT liaison | by Yusef Najafi |
| News | Trans Target | Montgomery County activist claims harassment by county's Ethics Commission | by Yusef Najafi |
| News | Lacking Liaison | LGBT activists decry de-emphasis of MPD's gay liaison unit, lack of transgender inclusion in tracking hate crimes | by Yusef Najafi |
| Art | Viral Campaign | Jeff McElhaney created AIDS activist art from advertising | by Will O'Bryan |
| Film | Road Weary | Moments of horror and suspense alleviate The Road's slow pacing, but mostly we're trudging along with the travelers | by Tim Plant |
| Music | Musical Monstrosities | Recently released albums from pop up-and-comers Adam Lambert, Rihanna and Leona Lewis leave a lot to be desired | by Doug Rule |
| Stage | Lights! Camera! Fraction! | As You Like It steers a forced and sometimes indecipherable course through time and space, quickly growing tiresome | by Tom Avila |
| Stage | Victorian Plunge | Filled with wry humor and visceral drama, Lulu contains a not-so-subliminal message about the end of innocence | by Kate Wingfield |
| Horoscope | Horoscope | November 26-December 2, 2009 | by Carrie Megginson |
| Spree | Merry Markets | Holiday shopping need not be a ''big box'' affair | by Yusef Najafi |
| Snapshots | Lace's First Anniversary Party | Lace | Ward Morrison |
| Snapshots | Whitman-Walker Clinic's Art for Life Auction | Carnegie Institute | Ward Morrison |
| Snapshots | Brent Everett at Town | Town Danceboutique | Ward Morrison |