All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Screenings at Shakespeare
Organizers of the 19th annual Reel Affirmations Film Festival, running Oct. 15 to 24, announced this week that the upcoming event’s main venue will be...
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Poppy Champlin Confidential
What’s on your nightstand?I got a book, water, my phone, my sucky-suck things for in the middle of the night because I have acid reflux....
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Naked Decor
Local designer Supon Phornirunlit, known best by his first name, doesn’t put much stock in catalogs to sell his products. “Either you love or you...
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Westward Ho
In his book, 50 Fabulous Gay-Friendly Places to Live, Gregory Kompes included St. Louis among the cities that made the cut. If you think that...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round Up: Change is coming. It’s coming from unexpected angles. It’s coming from unforeseen developments. It’s coming from application, strategic reasoning, discerning pressure and...
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Numbed by Nazis
One hundred and forty minutes is an awful lot of foreplay for a 10-minute payoff. Yet that’s what Quentin Tarantino is requiring of audiences who...
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Golden Girl
Has there ever been a creature more mythic than “The Blonde''? From Monroe to Evita to Harlow to that most ambitious of blondes who borrowed...
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North and South
After five years housed in Silver Spring, Equality Maryland has returned to its ''hometown,'' Baltimore. “The move back to Baltimore is a strategic one, part...
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Political Split
Four months after being fired from his post as the director of the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation -- the highest openly gay appointee...
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Gays just wanna have fun…
The third time's the charm, so the saying goes — though Hearsay stands by the motto two-timing is under-appreciated. And so it was Wednesday night,...
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EFN Breaks the (Jello) Mold
"Wrestle you wimps!" the lesbian drill sergeant barked to competitors in last Tuesday night’s Jello Wrestling matches at EFN Lounge . Actually, the yeller was...
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DC’s Got Gay Games Spirit!
“This city is hot right now — in lots of ways.” That’s how Mayor Adrian “Heat Index” Fenty addressed the many hundreds of folks who...
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Swimming for Scholarship
Clayton Miller did not exactly leap at the opportunity to apply for a scholarship for out gay athletes. While students will often jump through all...
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Attitude Adjustment
As an activist I have had occasion to criticize the police; but I also count many police officers as friends. So after gay attorney Pepin...
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Washington Renegades Rugby Football Club
Rugby is a tough sport, no doubt about it, leaving little room for wimps like me. Joining the Washington Renegades Rugby Football Club at Stead...
