All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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NOM's Deep Pockets
The Gay and Lesbian Activist Alliance (GLAA) alerted D.C. voters this week that Robert ''Bob'' King of Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 5A has received a...
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Sudden Departure
During a news conference on Tuesday, June 8, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty announced that Dr. Shannon Hader has resigned from her position as senior deputy...
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Unsaintly Actions
When Proposition 8 was passed in California during the 2008 elections, not only did it put a stop to marriages for same-sex couples in the...
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True Stories
When truth can be stranger than fiction, documentaries can eclipse feature films in their ability to enthrall, entertain and educate. Now in its eighth year,...
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Suffragette City
For those who tend to think of late Victorian/early Edwardian feminism in terms of the insuppressibly cheerful suffragette mother in Mary Poppins, George Bernard Shaw's...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You're so busy revisiting old business, it's hard to see where to find time and space for the new matters at hand. Could...
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Ending With a Bang
The prosecution in the Robert Wone conspiracy trial ended on a strong note this week, even as the judge in the case awarded the defense...
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Conviction for Bias
The Metropolitan Police Department announced on Wednesday, June 16, that a D.C. Superior Court jury has found two men guilty for their involvement in a...
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News Analysis: Opening Arguments, at the Close
More than five months ago, the trial questioning the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 – prohibiting same-sex marriages in the state – began in U.S....
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Moving The Center
On Monday, June 21, The Center, the metro area's LGBT community center, will open its doors at a new location at 13th and U Streets...
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Mixed Messages on Blood
After a generation of gay men grew up being prohibited from donating blood after having had sex with just one man even one time since...
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Proud in Leather [video]
D.C. Leather Pride presented a street festival and fair on Sunday, June 6, 2010, in the parking lot adjacent to the city's longstanding leather bar,...
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So You Think You're a Drag Queen @ Town Danceboutique: Episode 4 [video]
Nine contestants -- that's right, NINE -- took part in So You Think You're a Drag Queen at Town Danceboutique on Friday, June 4, 2010....
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From Stonewall to the Workplace
One by one, they stepped up to the podium and got personal. ''I believe what my parents taught me — that if I work hard,...
