All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Torture Garden
The first thing to note about The Catalyst Theater Company's production of George Orwell's 1984 is that it does not feel like high school. I...
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Blurred Visages
If you think being a gay Republican is a tough dichotomy to reconcile, try being a gay Muslim. In concept, the idea of being gay...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: It's hard to remain uncritical when you can't see the forest for the trees. Yes, God is in the details. But wouldn't it...
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Courting Smokers with Help
Trying to get to some of the root causes of why lesbian, bisexual or transgender women may smoke in greater numbers than the mainstream, Sara...
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Capitol Hill Questions
Federal GLOBE (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Employees of the Federal Government) is focusing efforts on helping pass legislation that would extend benefits to same-sex partners...
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Hickey Departs D.A.
Darby Hickey, who has been serving as interim executive director of Different Avenues, a local advocacy organization serving youth and young adults affected by HIV...
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OBAMArama Roars Into Town
Hearsay isn’t one to be coy about its political party inclinations — it’s blue through and through, boys and girls, through and through and through....
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: There are a million relevant details -- or is that a million and three? They replicate like tribbles: The more you do, the...
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Offending the Masses
Hamlet 2 is blasphemy, pure and simple. And it's not just the musical number ''Rock Me Sexy Jesus'' that's going to have people apoplectic; Shakespeare...
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Sticky Fingers
Contemplation of the Post-Industrial Family surely ranks as one of the most indispensable themes of the modern playwright. What writer worth their salt can resist...
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Media Muddle
Some forms of media bias I can appreciate. For example, someone at The Washington Post got carried away in the August 21 issue with color...
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Fighting Back with Love
As curious onlookers passed, in the early evening of Sunday, Aug. 24, a crowd of about 40 people sang as they held hands in a...
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Arrested Development
For the past three-and-a-half years, local transgender activist Earline Budd has volunteered her time on Wednesdays, visiting transgender inmates at the D.C. Department of Corrections'...
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Cracking the Olympics
The Beijing Olympics are almost over, which means very soon there'll be no more televised sights of hunky men in skintight, skimpy, sports gear —...
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Media Gays Invade!
An invasion is headed for the nation's capital. Is it aliens? In an immigration sense, a few, perhaps. Commie infiltrators? Don Wildmon of the American...
