All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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No Easy Pieces
Over the past weekend, the military leadership began weighing in on the post-election – and ever-narrowing – window for the repeal of ''Don't Ask, Don't...
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DOMA Taking More Hits
The Defense of Marriage Act faced a two-pronged attack on Nov. 9 as two separate organizations and sets of lawyers, representing different plaintiffs, filed lawsuits...
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Trans Remembrance
Thursday, Nov. 20, is the National Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day in which many pause to remember transgender victims of violence, intolerance and injustice....
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A Decade of History
There are times when something good comes from sheer frustration. That's the case with the Rainbow History Project, which came to being in 2000, founded...
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Helping Us Grow
In the two decades since Us Helping Us was founded to help improve the health of African-American gay men, the organization's scope has grown, says...
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Rock Solid
To quote the 1984 Deniece Williams song from the Footloose soundtrack, let's give the boy a hand, because James Franco's performance in 127 Hours is...
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Soul Stirring
Darius Nichols as Hud, photographed by Todd Franson in the Kennedy Center's Africa Room, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 Darius Nichols almost passed on auditioning for...
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Home on the Range
Arena Stage artistic director Molly Smith is hoping there's a little Ado Annie in all of us. Annie is, of course, the gal from the...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: The Four Horsemen of the temperamental Teutonic Apocalypse—Sturm, Drang, Angst and Schadenfreude—jaunt across the inner landscape bringing turmoil and self-pity along with great...
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PFOX in the World Bank Henhouse
Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays – PFOX – will soon be able to say that its programming is supported by funding provided to...
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The Republican Wave
Midterm elections often chip away at the governing majority's rule – sometimes casting out whole chunks of that majority. This year, however, a rough quarter...
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In Lexington, a Sign of Inclusion
In Lexington, Ky., Jim Gray -- currently the vice mayor of the city -- defeated incumbent Mayor Jim Newberry in an election that would have...
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Court Keeps DADT in Effect
With one judge dissenting, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a stay on Nov. 1 of the...
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DADT on the Line
A senior fellow with the progressive Center for American Progress has said he couldn't think of ''anyone else'' who had the credibility to lead ''Don't...
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Résumé Reveal
A few years ago, Riley Folds applied for a job at a company with a poor reputation toward gays and lesbians. He debated how of...
