Metro Weekly

All posts by Will O'Bryan

  • Light Touch

    Washington is an international city, overflowing with embassies and other global institutions. That's not to say, however, that the District is brimming with Old World...

  • End of an Icon: Vann Chen

    In various locales, every once in a while there comes a colorful personality that seems to add a splash of color or bit of panache,...

  • Praise for HRC's Donna Payne

    Donna Payne, the D.C.-based associate director of diversity for the Human Rights Campaign, as well as a founding board member of the National Black Justice...

  • Street Wise

    Growing up in suburban Maryland, the most dangerous element in young Cyndee Clay's life may have been going to public school. Hers was a conservative...

  • Checked Out

    On one hand, the Library of Congress is the institution that houses a large portion of the late gay-rights icon Frank Kameny's legacy – despite...

  • When in Rome

    Vacations are supposed to be a time to relax, recharge or let loose. A holiday trek may also be highly educational. Certainly, that was the...

  • LGBT News Briefs: Pageant and Parish

    Beauty Pageant Hopeful Takes on Miss Universe Over Gender Identity Jenna Talackova, 23, spoke on Tuesday, alongside celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, about her ordeal of...

  • LGBT National Briefs: Arizona advocate, Southeast lawsuit

    LAIESKI JOINS PHOENIX MAYOR'S OFFICE Arizona-native Caleb Laieski, 17, who made the Washington rounds in 2011 lobbying for the Student Non-Discrimination Act, is joining Phoenix...

  • Talk About Sex

    Whitman-Walker Health will hold its third ''Community Conversation'' Thursday, continuing the series that began Jan. 26. Already having explored ''healthier hookups'' and substance abuse, the...

  • Dulles gets more Turkish

    Turkish Airlines, “Europe’s Best Airline,” is getting a boost at Dulles International Airport, upping its six weekly flights to Istanbul to seven with the addition...

  • GLAAD for Geidner

    While New York may be the city that never sleeps, Saturday, March 24, was particularly busy with the gay agenda. Sure, there was that infamous...

  • STC Sets Memorial

    The Shakespeare Theatre Company today announced plans for a memorial celebration of Jared Neff, who died March 7 from pneumonia-related complications. Neff, 30, a Missouri...

  • Arrested Atlantis passengers set to leave Dominica

    The two California men arrested in Dominica Wednesday, March 21 – in the Caribbean nation as part of the Atlantis Events chartered gay cruise aboard...

  • Global Briefs: European Push and Pull

    Lesbian Couple Loses Adoption Appeal Two French women have lost their appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in their fight to adopt, Pink...

  • Illusionists

    When reigning titleholder Kirby Kolby steps down at Saturday's Miss Gay D.C. America pageant, the experience may be bittersweet. But the emphasis really should be...