Features
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Opening the Closet's Glass Door
To use some classic Washington parlance, when it comes to LGBT celebrities and politicians, we have our known unknowns and we have our unknown unknowns....
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Tempest in a Deep-Fat Fryer
One of the saltier controversies of 2012 was the fury surrounding fast-food restaurant Chick-fil-A, its financial ties to anti-gay causes and its outspoken president's opinion...
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Year of Kameny Controversy
It's been more than a year since local gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny died and yet he has still not been laid in his final...
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2012 Coverboy of the Year: Aaron Lee Smith
Aaron Lee Smith recently shot some hoops with a buddy's 8-year-old son. At least, he attempted to. ''I was trying to dribble, trying to do...
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Coverboy First Runner-Up: Rich McPherson
{Rich McPherson (Photo by Julian Vankim)} Rich McPherson tends dance to his own tune. He's got the drive and the discipline, matched by an independent...
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Coverboy Second Runner-Up: Tim Warguleski
{Timothy Warguleski (Photo by Julian Vankim)} If you look up the word ''blunt'' in the dictionary, finding a picture of Metro Weekly Coverboy Tim Warguleski,...
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Remembering Armando Montano
Those who knew Armando ''Mando'' Montano, who appeared in Metro Weekly as the Aug. 11, 2011, Coverboy, were dealt a shock in June when the...
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Winter Travel
The so-called holiday season is just the beginning of winter. The D.C. days might start getting the tiniest bit longer by Dec. 22, but that's...
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Desert Diamonds
In the 1960s, five men who defined cool took Las Vegas and Palm Springs by storm. The Rat Pack's Frankie, Sammy, Joey, Dean and Peter...
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Snow Hope
Let's just say it: The 2012 ski season was crap. Ski resorts across the country received some of their smallest amounts of snowfall in recent...
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Don't Miss the Boat
Once winter really takes hold, when the cold wind chafes cheeks and the thickest layers can't keep out the chill, that's when Washingtonians really want...
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Jet Set: Winter with Chi Chi LaRue
Chi Chi LaRue is one busy drag queen. From small-town beginnings in Hibbing, Minn. – where he was better known as Larry Paciotti – to...
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Calendar of Events: Winter Travel 2012-2013
December Pied Piper Christmas and New Year's CruiseCaribbean, via New YorkCunard Queen Mary 2Dec. 22-Jan. 3piedpipertravel.com Mega G5Taipei, TaiwanDec. 29-Jan. 1g5-taipei.com January Arosa Gay Ski...
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Veteran Activist
Allyson Robinson has never been one to take the easy route. She applied three times before being accepted to West Point. And when she came...
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King of Pops
Steven Reineke once played trumpet in a college production of Pippin. Decades later, Stephen Schwartz, the composer of Pippin, sat at Reineke's piano in New...
