All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Why is it that when you hold the mirror up to life, you keep focusing on that one zit and not the larger...
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Debunking the ''Myths'' of DADT
In an unusual display of allied cooperation, a dozen organizations – including the Human Rights Campaign, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Servicemembers Legal Defense...
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Nathaniel Frank and Dan Choi on DADT Repeal Efforts [video]
Dr. Nathaniel Frank, author of Unfriendly Fire, spoke Tuesday, Feb. 23 at a Smithsonian panel on the history of African-American service in the U.S. military....
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The Army Speaks UPDATED
In a blow to those seeking a moratorium on enforcement of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” military policy, both Secretary of the Army John McHugh...
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Arrest Warrant Issued for Va. ''Ex-lesbian'' UPDATED
A family court judge in Vermont Tuesday issued a warrant for the arrest of former lesbian Lisa Miller who disappeared with the child she once...
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DADT Repeal Gathers Steam on Hill
A week that already was shaping up to be a busy one for the efforts to repeal the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' military policy took...
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GOProud Goes Big at CPAC
The people stopping by to talk were mostly young, almost exclusively white and unabashedly conservative. Almost all, however, were just as excited to be welcoming...
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A Gay New Yorker in the CPAC Court
Craig Held is a junior at Pace University in New York City. He's openly gay – and openly Republican, which he presents as more of...
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Obama Health Care Proposal Leaves Out the Gay
President Obama released a new health care reform proposal Monday that he says incorporates work done in the House and Senate and adds ideas from...
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The Duplex Diner dons drag and raises a Love Boatload for Haiti….
Hearsay sends VD kudos (that’s the Valentine’s Day kind, not the kind that makes your wee-willie-winkie turn black and fall off) to the 18th &...
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Holding on to Discrimination
This past Saturday, David Rivkin, Jr., and Lee Casey – two longtime senior officials in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations – wrote in...
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Court Sides with City
As expected, a request to delay marriage equality from becoming District law on March 3 was tentatively denied today, Feb. 19, in D.C. Superior Court....
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Weather Warriors
With the ''Snowmageddon'' of a record-breaking double whammy of back-to-back blizzards come and gone, locals have returned to work and their daily routines. And while...
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The Jackson Jive
Despite his being so dark and masculine, I am tempted to call Bishop Harry Jackson the White Queen after the character in Through the Looking-Glass...
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Latino Flair
There is an undeniable excitement that comes from talking to playwright Nilo Cruz. It's not a kind of idol worship. Not the realization that one...
