All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Sit Down with the Chief
Leaders from local LGBT organizations sat with Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier for nearly two hours on Aug. 16, in closed-door meeting at which...
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Addressing the Data
Local HIV/AIDS organizations responded this week to the Federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention's new study on HIV infections in the U.S. The study,...
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Drag Donation
Drag queens from Nellie's Sports Bar and Freddie's Beach Bar joined Stonewall Kickball players at Stead Park for a special Drag Ball fundraising game during...
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Soviet Disunion
Love hurts. Work is pointless. Authority is a joke. Life in Uncle Vanya may not be grand, but Chekhov certainly is -- particularly in the...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You're heading for a culmination. Keep in mind that this is no longer about you, but about larger, ideological concepts and their manifestation...
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Immigration Woes
Over the past several months, many cases involving same-sex bi-national couples have hit the news. Almost all of these cases, where a U.S. citizen is...
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Coverboy: Scott
Scott studied criminology at George Mason University, where he graduated in 2010. And while the 23-year-old Jacksonville, Fla., native envisions a career in counterterrorism, he's...
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Snark on a Sinking Ship
The outcome of the tea party's invented crisis over the national debt ceiling remains uncertain as I write on Monday morning, but one thing is...
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Bridge Builder
The National Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights organization, and the Gill Foundation, which advocates for LGBT equality, joined to honor...
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Game Theory
Some people play to escape. Some people play to belong. Some people play to experience virtual worlds of fantasy, others play to explore realistic recreations...
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Gaming the Court
Paul Smith, one of the leading Supreme Court litigators in the country, has a history with video games. That history, however, has come from working...
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''Identical Situation''
Just 11 days after a transgender woman, Lashai Mclean, was shot and killed, another transgender woman, Tonya Harrell, says unidentified suspects fired shots at her...
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Judicial Symbolism
On July 18, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke in soaring tones of the action the Senate was about to take on the judicial nomination of...
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We're Here, We're Queer. Really.
When I titled my book on straight/LGBT communication Queer Questions, Straight Talk, I expected some freak-out. My publisher, a straight man deeply committed to LGBT...
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DADT's Countdown
An earlier version of this story was published at 5:53 p.m. July 22. The repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” passed its last significant hurdle...
