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  • Making Montreal Magic

    By on May 30, 2013

    When Luc Provost transforms into Mado Lamotte, one of Montreal's most famous drag queens, it's a magical moment. His over-the-top makeup and costumes make Mado...

  • Pacific Northwest Playground

    By on May 30, 2013

    With the past couple centuries of North American ''settlement'' moving east to west, it's no wonder that the great Pacific Northwest might seem somewhat untamed,...

  • Plane Queer and the Male Flight Attendant

    By on May 30, 2013

    For those looking for a headier sort of beach read this summer, an academic offering may be of particular interest to LGBT audiences. Phil Tiemeyer,...

  • Summer Travel Issue 2013

    By on May 30, 2013

    While Montreal is perfectly charming in winter, you can't do better than a summertime trip to Quebec's cosmopolitan cutie. The same holds for the Pacific...

  • Bear Weeks at the Beach

    By on May 30, 2013

    As local lore has it, the proprietors of Provincetown, Mass., love ''Bear Week.'' These are, after all, men who love to eat, drink and be...

  • Broadway's Musical Wizard

    By on May 16, 2013

    Stephen Schwartz will make what he calls a ''guest appearance'' with the National Symphony Orchestra this weekend. ''I sing a song with the orchestra towards...

  • Boots Over Broadway

    By on May 16, 2013

    A couple weeks ago Katy Perry raved to her nearly 37 million followers on Twitter. ''Just saw KINKY BOOTS on Broadway & cried w/joy from...

  • You're the Top!

    By on May 16, 2013

    The Nance is the gayest play currently running on Broadway -- among other attributes, it features a gay writer (Douglas Carter Beane), a gay lead...

  • 2013 Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards Selection Panel

    By on May 9, 2013

    The Next Generation Awardees are chosen from a pool of community nominations by a panel of Washington-area LGBT leaders from the worlds of arts, activism,...

  • The 2013 Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards

    By on May 9, 2013

    Life gets better. That's a comforting truism for those of us on the older side of the LGBT community, who've watched as our country has...

  • AJ King

    By on May 9, 2013

    It hit Alexander AJ King when he was only in high school. ''I was getting calls back to back to back from my friends saying,...

  • Michael Komo

    By on May 9, 2013

    Michael Komo came to activism early in life. More than half of his 24 years have been spent advocating for LGBT equality and he describes...

  • Joseph Lewis

    By on May 9, 2013

    Throughout his life, 26-year-old Joseph Lewis has struggled with embracing the different facets of his identity – as a gay man, a deaf person and...

  • Je-Shawna Wholley

    By on May 9, 2013

    Thanks, in part, to high school years in the Junior ROTC in Forrestville, Md. – where she rose to the leadership rank of regiment commander...

  • Warming Trend

    By on May 2, 2013

    Behold, the pleasures of summer. Ice cream cones…. Men in swimsuits…. Huh? We got there awfully fast, didn't we? And, well, why not? One of...