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  • 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...

  • Lightning Strikes Again

    By on April 24, 2013

    Like so many others, Patrick Little credits Tracks in making him the gay man he is today. ''It's a common story of Tracks,'' he says....

  • Bailey's Crossroad

    By on April 24, 2013

    METRO WEEKLY: What did Tracks mean to you? ED BAILEY: Tracks was where my passion and my love affair with nightlife and nightclubs started, absolutely....

  • Tracks Star

    By on April 24, 2013

    Michele Miruski is still in the entertainment business -- in a manner of speaking. ''I entertain the residents all day long, or make sure they're...

  • Remembering Tracks

    By on April 24, 2013

    Metro Weekly asked readers to submit their memories of Tracks. Some highlights. ''I believe a lot of people became 'straight, but not narrow' because of...

  • A Complete Guide to Dining Out for Life 2013

    By on April 18, 2013

    Washington, D.C. Maryland Virginia A complete guide to all participating restaurants as of press time, by neighborhood, including meals and what percentage of each bill...

  • Vive L’Enfant!

    By on April 18, 2013

    At the last turn of the century, Jim Ball, a New Jersey native, was working in PR and marketing, another dynamic transplant to Manhattan. Christopher...

  • Senate Star

    By on April 11, 2013

    Shattering glass ceilings is becoming routine for Tammy Baldwin. The first out person to serve in the U.S. Senate, Baldwin's résumé consists of a long...

  • From the Supreme Court Forward

    By on April 3, 2013

    When Edith Windsor exited the Supreme Court after nearly two hours of arguments March 27 on the constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of...

  • Pop and Circumstance

    By on March 27, 2013

    ''I'm completely uncomfortable in my own skin,'' says Mika. ''I'm neurotic, self-contradictory and just unbearable.'' That may be how the international pop star sees himself,...