All posts by Will O'Bryan
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Locating Linder
Nearly three years ago, Feb. 20, 2005, Geraldine ''Jerrie'' Linder passed away. At 83, it was no surprise that she died of natural causes. What...
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Coverboy of the Year: Adam Dahl
Adam Dahl When Adam Dahl and Metro Weekly last crossed paths in February he was still a newcomer to D.C. But the small-town Minnesota native...
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Christmas Candie
When the term ''flautist'' came along -- 1860, according to Merriam-Webster -- the traditionalists, that bunch who'd been using ''flutist'' since 1603, may have been...
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D.C. Center Plans 2008
The D.C. Center, metropolitan Washington's GLBT community center, held an annual brunch and planning meeting Saturday, Dec. 8, asking community leaders to offer upcoming events...
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Teen Tales
Alex Sanchez, the former metro Washingtonian who has made a name for himself writing a number of novels dealing with gay teens coming of age,...
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Return of the King
It was the late 1990s when Wallace Acton decided he'd had his fill of metropolitan Washington. He packed his bags and moved to New York....
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Hate Talk
On the heels of what some perceived as a September spike in hate crimes -- with an assault peppered with anti-gay epithets adjacent to the...
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Stein Democratic Club Elects Officers
Members of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, among the District's most influential gay organizations, elected officers for the coming year at the club's Nov. 19...
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Marriage Options
In conjunction with The Center, ''Home for GLBT in Metro DC,'' DC for Marriage, a nascent local organization, will present a public forum to discuss...
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For the Children
December 1, World AIDS Day, will again mark that sad anniversary that, while a time to tout advances such as an entirely new class of...
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Welcome to Town
John Guggenmos and Ed Bailey It's late October and the effort to create the latest addition to D.C.'s gay nightlife is in the home stretch....
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Finding Family
With Halloween down, it's time to start thinking of Thanksgiving and the rainbow of similarly family-themed holidays to follow in December. Along that theme, Peter...
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Healthful Opportunity
While any number of GLBT-related health summits, workshops and seminars have cropped up in Washington over the years, there's always room for one more --...
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Gay Ghost?
Between the Miss Adams Morgan pageant and the annual High Heel Races, it's often suggested that Halloween must be a kind of gay holiday, considering...
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Out for Business
Traditionally, when money moves in Washington, it's by appropriation. Stock trades and profit motives seem downright ruffian compared to the elegance of a five-star lunch...
