All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Sister Speak
In 2008 Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size stomped, beat and snarled its way across the Studio Theatre's stage. It was prose poem brought to...
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Broken Bones
There's a sweetness to Alice Sebold's 2002 mega-bestseller The Lovely Bones that belies the story of a young girl's brutal rape and killing. That same...
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Marriage Nears the Finish Line
The passage of the marriage equality bill by D.C. City Council on December 15 and signing of the bill by Mayor Adrian Fenty later that...
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Brotherhood of Love
Centaur Motorcycle Club has been producing Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend's official events long before its current president, Steve Kenney, discovered the organization 20 years ago. ''MAL...
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'Will & Grace' Shall Set You Free
SAN FRANCISCO – Attorneys defending Proposition 8 in a federal district court tipped their hand Wednesday on how they will try to show that allowing...
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Not Ready for a Close-Up
The U.S. Supreme Court put an end late this afternoon to any question over whether the Proposition 8 federal court trial – already three days...
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Meet the New Bias, Same as the Old Bias
SAN FRANCISCO – Attorneys challenging the California ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage painted the ''Yes on 8'' campaign today as a modern day copycat...
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No Camera, Lots of Action
SAN FRANCISCO -- The trial to challenge Proposition 8 in federal court got underway Monday in San Francisco but the opening acts were upstaged in...
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Departure at PFLAG
Lindy Perry-Garnette, executive director of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays of the Metropolitan Washington DC Area (Metro-D.C. PFLAG) announced Tuesday, Jan. 12...
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Another Loss for Marriage
TRENTON, N. J. — Even before the votes were tallied Thursday afternoon in the New Jersey Senate on a marriage equality bill, advocates of the...
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Coming Out Conservative
In mid-February thousands of conservatives will descend on D.C. for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference -- better known as CPAC -- the premiere political...
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Feedback Farrago
One of the interesting sidelights of being a writer and activist is the correspondence I receive. So I spent a few hours on a wintry...
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Hormonal Activity
The average (sex) teenaged boy thinks (sex) about sex (sex) every seven seconds (sex). While this might be an old wives' tale, you wouldn't know...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Remember the dream where you're having a coffee at an outdoor café in another country and suddenly a busload of Americans pours out...
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Fighting Words
Pay attention to the sides of Metrobuses these days and you're bound to see advertisements promoting exotic vacation destinations, local news channels or Alvin and...
