Metro Weekly

All posts by Will O'Bryan

  • Amazing Journey

    Peruse A. Cornelius Baker's résumé, and you might get more than you bargained for. Sure, you knew he worked for the George H.W. Bush administration...

  • Questions and Carats

    They may be a girl's best friend. They may even be forever. But as Jon Mervis advises, they aren't absolutely necessary. Just one of the...

  • Push for Parity

    The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus last week made a fresh push for immigration equality in a letter to five national leaders. In the Feb. 2...

  • Never-Ending Need

    At 40, sharing a birthday with the Stonewall riots, I've lived through plenty of changes for LGBT Americans. After about 10 or so, I even...

  • More Snow, More Need

    While an emergency call for volunteers Tuesday meant that none of the 1,400 ill clients served by Food and Friends went hungry despite the poor...

  • Round-Three Rejection

    If the maxim about insanity being defined as repeating the same course of action yet expecting different results has any bearing in truth, the crowd...

  • Help, with a Hitch

    Keith Short would pass Central Union Mission at 14th and R Streets NW regularly. It was in the same neighborhood where he was tenuously living...

  • Shabbaton in the Capital

    If the term is new to you, think of the Hebrew shabbaton as roughly a sabbatical or a retreat. It can mean different things to...

  • Picture Yourself

    You may recall the following scene from Sex and the City when it was still just a TV show. Samantha wants to capture her good...

  • Family Feud

    Full Equality Now DC (FENDC), a group evolved from the local host committee of October's National Equality March, are turning their activist aim at The...

  • Ally Beats Enemy

    It's been a year – just a year, mind you – that Barack Obama has served as 44th president of the U.S. He's the first...

  • Dollars & Sense

    Mark Guenther knows exactly what he would like to convey to strangers: ''First off, I'm a nice guy.'' Considering his disarming smile and ready handshake,...

  • Alexandria Effort

    In the ongoing fight against sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, the big news recently was the partnership announced Jan. 12 between the District and...

  • Fitness: Work-Out Wisdom

    January is a hot time for gyms, as well it should be. Among the dozen most popular New Year's resolutions compiled by the U.S. government...

  • Calling Out Calvary

    Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church is no stranger to the local gay community. On one hand, church leader Bishop Alfred A. Owens Jr. has a...