All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Youth Pride Alliance
Youth Pride Alliance organizers and volunteers Mission: To provide a safe space for LGBT youth, including organizing the annual Youth Pride Day celebration. Founded: 1997...
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Hearsay
Apex for Passover, Velvet for Palm... Get well wishes and kisses for Eddie... JR.'s braces for bonnets... Last weekend, Hearsay danced its proverbial kiester off...
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Truly Yours
Dear Lena, Oh wise and wonderful knower of all things, I have a dilemma and was wondering if you could bless me with your counsel....
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Let Me Tell You
In the middle of one of my self-help meetings -- recently I've been helping myself to a lot of personal growth -- a woman related...
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Garden Variety
In the beginning, there was Stephen Schwartz. In the 1970s he created the bright and bubbly musicals Pippin and Godspell. In the 1990s he wrote...
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Five Ways to Cut Your Tax Bill
Around the Washington area, people are scrambling to finish -- or, in some cases, begin -- their taxes. But in your rush to beat the...
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Hearsay
SKYY diving at JR.'s and a Green Echo… Big bulging undies at Universal Gear… Velvet goes statuesque… Seems like every other gay Washingtonian bar-hopper was...
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Desert Paradise
From the air a narrow strip of flora twines across the desert floor like some exotic ribbon, a striking image as you fly into the...
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Fantastical Voyage
In the same whimsical, refreshing style that made Ally McBeal such a treat for millions of viewers, the Fox network has created its spiritual heir,...
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Sparkling Smiles
The advertising promises are everywhere -- a whiter smile can bring you that perfect partner, land you the perfect job, make your life better than...
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Merry Mourning
William Finn has known some pretty eclectic characters in his lifetime, and the prominent composer/lyricist writes about their lives -- not the circumstances of their...
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Mais Non, Manon!
Two subtle re-alignments greet this season's returning opera-goers: The Washington Opera is now called the Washington National Opera and the Kennedy Center Opera House has...
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Parental Guidance
Many opponents of gay marriage do so on the grounds that marriage exists primarily for raising children, and that gay couples cannot satisfy this purpose....
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Hearsay
Gay Washington gets its very own Halo… Bagels, shamrocks and pots o' gold… Unnatural blonde ambition… Recently Hearsay took a trip to Lovely Lena's Empire...
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Regal Stature
One of the most significant moments in the Shakespearean canon comes at the end of King Henry IV, Part 2 when the newly-crowned Henry V...
