All posts by Will O'Bryan
-
Play Ball!
Once upon a time, there was a section of the Anacostia waterfront that thrived with businesses catering to the gay community. In 2006, those businesses...
-
Father-Son Outing
In reality, a man was raised in a nuclear family in California. He grew up with a mother and a father and two sisters. When...
-
Meet Your Committee
The old-school axiom told us that behind every great man, there is a great woman. Let's brush that off to get with the times, because...
-
Mind, Body and Soul
WELCOME From the President of the Board of Directors Week in Pride Calendar Parade - Sat, June 11Map & Contingents Festival - Sun June 12Map,...
-
The Ringleader
Robert O'Hara, the 41-year-old playwright whose latest work, Bootycandy, is having its world premiere run at Washington's Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, is very familiar with...
-
Global Grassroots
Although I'm writing this on Memorial Day, Monday will be a distant news-cycle memory come Thursday's publication. That does not stop me, however, from considering...
-
Rowland Cancels Appearance
Michael Lutz, executive director of Capital Pride, announced today the Kelly Rowland has pulled out of her scheduled headlining performance on the Capital Pride Festival...
-
Kickoff Conversation
Editor's Note:This story has been edited to reflect that the location and time for the event has changed. For those benevolent locals who hope to...
-
Cover Quartet
Dr. Pat Hawkins remembers her first Pride celebration in D.C. – from a distance. It was the mid-1970s and she was working with youth, keeping...
-
New Neighbor
While the ongoing uncertainty of Uganda's ''kill the gays'' bill – a for-now tabled proposal to radically reinforce Ugandan law, which already criminalizes homosexuality –...
-
Taking Stock
LGBT people often have to come out more than once. Perhaps you've started a new job and your encyclopedia-like grasp of Glee hasn't tipped off...
-
Grant for Good
Verizon Wireless and the Verizon Foundation announced May 13 that they have awarded a $20,000 grant to D.C.'s Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL) to...
-
Gentle Ben
It's likely the fantasy of many gay men. In a New York City hotel room, Ben Cohen, 32, is fresh from the shower. Sorry, gents,...
-
Pring Fling
If the gayest corners of D.C. seem a little quiet next Thursday evening, Jacob Nathaniel Pring might be to blame. The promoter behind Jacob Pring...
-
Victoria Kirby
Ralph Ellison wrote The Invisible Man as a novel exploring the narrator's sense of social invisibility as an African-American man of the early 20th century....
