Metro Weekly

All posts by Will O'Bryan

  • Woman on the Verge

    When the June/July issue of The Advocate magazine featured ''Forty under 40,'' an exhaustive list of young GLBT people, running through the worlds of business,...

  • Marriage Matters

    The setting was nearly divine, as marriage-equality activists gathered in a hall of All Souls Church, Unitarian, in Columbia Heights. The sky turned to twilight...

  • Anti-Tumor Team

    Cancer, in a twisted sort of way, has the power to bring people together. It might be researchers working on the frontiers of the cancer...

  • Out In Congress

    There have been gay members of Congress before and there are those who serve now. There has already been an openly gay candidate elected to...

  • 15 Years of a Free Rein

    It would be a long life for a dog, long enough for a person to reach adolescence, or less than a blink of cosmic time....

  • The Homophobic Lifestyle

    With the recent protests against marriage quality -- replete with a grandstanding politician, muddy logic, and faith in God being on one's side -- there's...

  • Gay and Gone

    It would be hard to argue that Clark Ray, the highest-ranking openly gay member of Mayor Adrian Fenty's administration and its only department head, was...

  • Storefront Stand

    If Brad Allison was a bully, he'd be one to hide from. At an inch shy of 6 feet, weighing in at 240 pounds, and...

  • Countering Marriage Equality

    A newly formed coalition uniting Hope Christian Church and the High Impact Leadership Coalition (HILC), based in Beltsville and College Park, respectively; the national, D.C.-group,...

  • The Living Dread

    Zombies are enjoying a pop-culture heyday. You can keep Twilight and Rise of the Lycans. The buzz is all about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,...

  • Marriage Movement

    The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, a GLBT political club and one of the District's most influential, succeeded in finding some common ground in the push...

  • Body Language

    If you talk about contemporary dance in Washington, dancer and choreographer Helanius Wilkins is bound to enter the conversation. Since 2001, his EDGEWORKS Dance Theater...

  • Linh Hoang

    There is very little to Linh Hoang that is not on the move. Emigrating from Vietnam at age 10, that flight across the Pacific to...

  • José Ramirez

    Growing up as a teenager in Durham, N.C., was not easy for JosΓ© Ramirez. He remembers the embarrassment of the school bus arriving some mornings,...

  • Local and Luscious

    There is a story D.C.-native Patrick O'Connell, the openly gay proprietor and chef -- one of the world's very best -- of the Inn at...