Metro Weekly

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  • Hostile Territory

    By on February 2, 2005

    ''Why did you move to the hate state?'' That's what I've been asked, in various forms, since I left D.C.'s Adams Morgan/Columbia Heights neighborhood last...

  • Homegrown History

    By on January 26, 2005

    The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most culturally romantic periods of American history. In a sense, it was the spark that ignited a fire...

  • Judgment Day

    By on January 12, 2005

    ''I think it's about who he is on the inside and whether or not he has the ability to speak from his heart, whether that...

  • The Exhibitionists

    By on January 12, 2005

    For some, MAL is about the legendary Leather Cocktails, the event from which the weekend born. Then there are those who look forward to the...

  • Appreciation

    By on January 12, 2005

    Last Thursday morning, January 6, at 5:15 a.m., one of the GLBT community's biggest hearts gave out. The passing of Billy Collison at the age...

  • MAL 2005

    By on January 12, 2005

    The Centaur Motorcycle Club's Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend has grown over the years into the nation's largest club-sponsored leather event. The original seed of the weekend,...

  • Taylor-made Title

    By on January 12, 2005

    One cold and drizzly afternoon, roughly a year ago, hundreds of leather aficionados gathered inside Almas Temple downtown for more than three hours of pageantry...

  • New Year, New You

    By on January 5, 2005

    The holiday debt has racked up and the Christmas cookies have morphed into another inch for your waist size. The madness, however, wrapped itself up...

  • Scene 2004

    By on December 29, 2004

    Scene 2004: The Year in Pictures More than 5700 Photos of D.C.'s GLBT Community over the past 12 months

  • 2004: The Year in Review

    By on December 22, 2004

    We had the strangest dream about 2004. Everything was carefree and gay, and the good fairies had done away with sodomy laws and we were...

  • Will Bell

    By on December 15, 2004

    Will Bell There is a chance that Will Bell may be having a mild quarter-life crisis. ''I have my education to fall back on, I've...

  • Allix Allot

    By on December 15, 2004

    Allix Allot A couple years ago Allix met a boy at Nation. After dancing together for a while, they started making out and their hands...

  • Where Do We Fit?

    By on December 8, 2004

    With the November elections five weeks past, people are finally turning away from electoral discussions. Who could blame the voters on the losing side if...

  • Art History

    By on December 1, 2004

    Peter Stebbins remembers meeting David Jamieson when the two entered the University of Vermont as freshman in 1983. ''I came home to find a gathering...

  • 'Our Heroes: A 20-Year Journey of AIDS Through Our Eyes'

    By on December 1, 2004

    Martin Luther King Jr. Public Library 901 G St., NW Multiple exhibits through Dec. 31 LaQuis Harkins, ''And So Goes a Nation'' poetry reading 6:30-8:30...