All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Nothin' Dirty Goin' On
The message popped up on the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC's (GMCW) Facebook page early on Thursday morning, just about a week before the...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Is your dogma driving your karma, begorrah? Are you in a state of philosophical confusion compounded by a compulsion to git ‘er done,...
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Community Debates Gender Identity Bill
The exclusion of a public accommodations provision from a Maryland bill aimed at ending transgender discrimination has led one group of LGBT activists, Trans Maryland,...
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No Maryland Marriage Vote
Movement on a bill that would have brought marriage equality to Maryland, while also specifically protecting the rights of religious institutions to handle issues of...
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Coverboy: Randal
Randal moved to D.C. from Detroit recently to study law at Howard University. The 24-year-old describes his first year at the school as ''stressful,'' usually...
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Party Games
There are, at times, movie adaptations of a play so potent, they threaten every live performance that follows. Take, for example, Richard Brooks's Cat on...
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The Accidental Entrepreneur
In keeping with the nature of his business, Gus Elfving calls himself the ''Principal and Pack Leader'' of Pet Peeps, a company he founded in...
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Minor Adjustments
With just a few small adjustments, The Adjustment Bureau could have been great. As it stands, it's just good. To say that it's based on...
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Rooms and a Board
Christopher Dyer has long been a champion of local LGBT youth, founding the Youth Pride Alliance in 1996, then serving as the director of the...
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Martina Navratilova speaks at the Mautner Project Gala [video]
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova speaks at the Mautner Project for Lesbian Health's Gala awards dinner, where she received the Chair's Award for her advocacy on...
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Discrimination Debate
''If you stick me in a dress and heels, you're not going to find me any more fit for my job,'' said Sama Bellomo in...
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DOMA's Immigration Implications
The fallout from the Feb. 23 announcement by Attorney General Eric Holder that the Justice Department will no longer defend Section 3 of the Defense...
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Olson's Stand
Calling it a matter of ''human dignity,'' lawyer Ted Olson addressed the board and other supporters of the Human Rights Campaign on Saturday, March 5,...
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Reacting to Arora's Second Flip
“I don’t think I have ever seen a politician’s Facebook page with not one defender.” Those were the words of well-known lesbian activist Hilary Rosen...
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Gay Panic Fading
I never believed that Barack Obama was really opposed to marriage equality. It wasn't just that he had previously endorsed it and was completely comfortable...
