-
New Hope Pride celebrates 10 years
A popular vacation destination for gays throughtout the Mid-Atlantic area, New Hope, Pa., will hold its 10th anniversary Pride, May 11 to 19. “It amazes...
-
Creating Space
It was just over five-and-a-half years ago that I first brought the idea of the Next Generation Awards to Metro Weekly. Because I happen to...
-
A Star Is Born
Jason Collins is not the first active professional athlete to come out. Tennis star Martina Navratilova came out in 1981. Her courageous act, however, was...
-
EV Advocates Entering Election Mode
It's the poll heard round the commonwealth. EV Advocates, a nonprofit affiliate of Equality Virginia that performs voter outreach and education, sent an fundraising email...
-
Real Estate Roundup
The Capital Pride Parade still winds around Dupont Circle every June, but Realtor Ted Smith of Stages Premier Realtors Washington argues that the epicenter of...
-
Wretched Excess
What kind of maniac tries to adapt The Great Gatsby? Few books are legitimate touchstones in American culture, and for better or for worse, F....
-
Texas Hold 'Em
A decade ago, when Texas-based filmmaker Yen Tan regularly commuted between Dallas and Houston, he wondered if he was alone out there. ''I would stop...
-
Showy Boat
In a second act scene in Show Boat, the character Magnolia auditions to be a singer at Chicago's popular Trocadero Club. Magnolia was a star...
-
The 2013 Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards
Life gets better. That's a comforting truism for those of us on the older side of the LGBT community, who've watched as our country has...
-
AJ King
It hit Alexander AJ King when he was only in high school. ''I was getting calls back to back to back from my friends saying,...
-
Michael Komo
Michael Komo came to activism early in life. More than half of his 24 years have been spent advocating for LGBT equality and he describes...
-
Joseph Lewis
Throughout his life, 26-year-old Joseph Lewis has struggled with embracing the different facets of his identity – as a gay man, a deaf person and...
-
Je-Shawna Wholley
Thanks, in part, to high school years in the Junior ROTC in Forrestville, Md. – where she rose to the leadership rank of regiment commander...
-
Cardio Shmardio
One of the longest held beliefs in the fitness community is Cardiovascular exercise (jogging, walking, bike riding, etc) are the way to a shredded physique,...
