Metro Weekly

All posts by Will O'Bryan

  • Strike Against The Center

    Michael Sessa, president of The Center, D.C.'s LGBT community center, and David Mariner, the executive director, reported today that The Center suffered an attack of...

  • Center Soiree

    With a new venue and a few other tweaks, the 2010 fall reception for The Center, D.C.'s LGBT community center, may be the organization's grandest...

  • City Offering Safety Event

    Amid a backdrop of ongoing violence aimed at the LGBT community, the Mayor's Office of GLBT Affairs has announced a Public Safety Open House event...

  • After Party

    For 13 years, the 1409 Playbill Café has catered to the theater crowd and neighborhood regulars at the vibrant intersection of 14th and P Streets...

  • Centaurs Celebrate Franson

    It's not often that the Centaur Motorcycle Club bestows its Bikeus Award. ''The last time it was given, seven or so years ago, was to...

  • Double L Win

    Now in its 13th year, the Mr. Double L Leather Contest wrapped up Sept. 17 with one of Rehoboth Beach's own, Allen Lerch, taking the...

  • Date with Delgaudio

    In a recent fundraising letter from the Falls Church-based Public Advocate of the United States, which bills itself as an organization that ''lobbies to fight...

  • Montgomery Co. Mensch

    In his 2006 novel, Hard, Wayne Hoffman presented a gay 1990s Manhattan struggling to strike a balance between ''safer sex'' and ''sex positive.'' With his...

  • NBJC Takes the Hill

    Following on an annual outing begun last year, the National Black Justice Coalition will be returning to Capitol Hill next year for ''Out on the...

  • Local Killed in Texas Accident

    Brian McKernan, 44, known to many in the area for his years of substance-abuse work at Whitman-Walker Health, was killed Sept. 6 in Austin, Texas,...

  • Arrest Made in Trans Shooting

    The Metropolitan Police Department announced this morning that an arrest has been made in the case of a transgender woman shot in the early hours...

  • Answering the Call

    As America prepares to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, emotions may run high. Many in the D.C. area have memories...

  • Musical Marker

    During most days, Dr. Joel Ang's primary concern is managing his patients' care, specializing in HIV and family care at Q Street MDs. But sutures...

  • Manji's Mission

    Irshad Manji has new pieces in her life. There's her new book, Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage To Reconcile Faith and Freedom. Then there's...

  • NLGJA Honors

    Despite the wind and rain, the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association National Convention and Media Summit went on as planned, Aug. 25 to 28,...