All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Hate Crimes Law Stands
On Tuesday, Sept. 7, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Ludington dismissed a challenge to the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act....
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Lone Star Slight
Although it hasn't gotten the attention given to Ted Olson and David Boies's challenge to California's Proposition 8 or the Gay & Lesbian Advocates &...
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Mending Mehlman
When news broke last week that former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman had announced he is gay in an interview with Marc Ambinder in...
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Feeling the Heat
Sgt. Carlos Mejia of the Metropolitan Police Department's Special Liaison Unit (SLU), which includes the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU), spoke to a crowd...
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June in Bloom
In June Crenshaw's world, every minute matters. The 49-year-old lesbian from Tulsa, Okla., who has been living in the D.C. area since the mid-1980s, has...
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The Lonely Guy
The American. It's rather a bland title. But if you bring a star's name into it -- for example, ''George Clooney is…The American'' -- you...
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Game Boys
When unhindered by such things as a degree in history or political science or more than passing knowledge of the works of, well, any of...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You're bringing in the harvest of the current lunar cycle. Will you be eating your words? Putting up deep thoughts for the winter...
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Outspoken, Ep. 4: Glenn Beck Restoring Honor Rally [video]
Host Ebone Bell takes a stroll through the Glenn Beck ''Restoring Honor'' on Saturday, Aug. 28, and poses questions about gay marriage and Don't Ask...
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Seeking Spousal Sentiments
Members of the Pentagon working group reviewing ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' repeal implementation are looking for opportunities to meet with the same-sex partners of current...
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Tricky Timing
Two weeks before Election Day, the U.S. Department of Justice may be in the position of going to the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals...
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Neighborhood Watch
Cuts, bruises and a shoe print. That's what remained on Todd Metrokin's face after he was beaten on an Adams Morgan street by a group...
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Pilgrimage
In Shaun of the Dead, director Edgar Wright reanimated the zombie movie, and in Hot Fuzz he blew up action film stereotypes, both with hilarious...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You have seen the future, and you're not sure you approve. It might be preferable if that which has not yet come to...
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Prop. 8's Fall Fallout
On Friday, Aug. 20, California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman (R) told the Sacramento Bee that she would defend Proposition 8 in court if elected governor...
