Metro Weekly

All posts by Will O'Bryan

  • Cakes for Causes

    Continuing the tradition into its 41st year, leather and lusciousness came together Sunday, Feb. 12, for Scarlet's Bake Sale. With about 65 sweet entries up...

  • Global Briefs: Standing Up in Sweden, Escaping in Entebbe

    Minister breaks up LGBT conference in Uganda An LGBT activists' conference in Uganda was raided Tuesday by the nation's State Minister for Ethics and Integrity...

  • Partners on the Journey

    In late January I had the pleasure of celebrating my mother's 80th birthday as we pulled away from Cozumel (all passengers accounted for, thank you...

  • Honoring an Artist

    Coming to Baltimore for the first time, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Creating Change, ''The National Conference on LGBT Equality,'' was bound to...

  • Time To Talk

    Whitman-Walker Health kicked off a new series of dialogues Jan. 26 titled ''Community Conversations.'' The first, ''New Year, New Start: Substance Abuse,'' will be followed...

  • Do These Five Things for Valentine's

    1. Give as Good as You Get It can be bought, it can be made. Regardless, a gift at Valentine's Day is like tipping --...

  • A Sudden Loss

    For regular readers of Metro Weekly or the Washington Blade, it's a good chance that Gary Teter handled more than one of the magazines or...

  • Catie Cares

    No matter how you look at her, Catie Curtis is certainly not unsung. Not only has the gay singer-songwriter earned substantial accolades for her craft,...

  • Baltimore Bound

    The TLA Releasing team behind the annual Philadelphia QFest LGBT film festival, marking 18 years in July, announced new partnerships last week that will see...

  • GLAAD Announces Nominees

    Metro Weekly senior political writer Chris Geidner has been nominated for a 2012 GLAAD Media Award for his series on the history of the Defense...

  • Creating a Conference

    It's not quite a quarter century, but the 24th year of Creating Change comes so very close. And Sue Hyde, the current director of the...

  • On Pace for Pride

    With a cold wind blowing, summertime's Capital Pride Festival and Parade may seem a world away. To pull together one of the city's grandest annual...

  • The Great Hall

    The Mid-Atlantic Leather weekend's Exhibit Hall is a beast all its own. It's where the leather and kink diehards cross paths with the weekend's spectators....

  • Mr. MAL 2011’s Three D’s

    What a year it's been, and Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather 2011 Doug ''D'' Pamplin couldn't be happier. From his base in Pittsburgh, Pamplin has taken the...

  • Exercising Judgment

    We're often told to judge not, lest we be judged by others. Perhaps it's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it. In this...