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  • Terra Tempest Moore

    By on May 2, 2012

    Describing Terra Tempest Moore, Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League Executive Director Andrew Barnett wrote, ''She is a natural leader, talented public speaker, and fierce advocate...

  • David M. Pérez

    By on May 2, 2012

    Some gay people grow up to run screaming from conservative Christian upbringings. Not David M. Pérez. This Southern California native embraced the values of his...

  • 2012 Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards Selection Panel

    By on May 2, 2012

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

  • The 2012 Next Generation Awards

    By on May 2, 2012

    As a community, it is vital that we understand our past so our history can be told. But if we hope to see change come...

  • Dining Out for Life 2012

    By on April 19, 2012

    Food is universal. We have the technology to reduce our necessary daily intake of calories to a few ounces of liquid. That might be an...

  • Family Restaurant

    By on April 19, 2012

    For the latter half of the 20th century and now moving dependably into the 21st, Annie's Paramount Steak House has offered a warm welcome to...

  • Hunter's Beacon

    By on April 19, 2012

    Steven Hunter's first job as head chef was at Perry's in Adams Morgan. ''I was there when they started the drag brunch,'' says Hunter, who...

  • Light Touch

    By on April 19, 2012

    Washington is an international city, overflowing with embassies and other global institutions. That's not to say, however, that the District is brimming with Old World...

  • To Serve, with Love

    By on April 19, 2012

    ''I collect them like baseball cards – I know all their names, I know their styles,'' teases Sonya Boring. She's talking about drag queens. ''I'm...

  • A Complete Guide to Dining Out for Life 2012

    By on April 19, 2012

    A complete guide to all participating restaurants as of press time, by neighborhood, including meals and what percentage of each bill will be donated to...

  • Bully Pulpit

    By on April 19, 2012

    Last month, Bully was fighting for its life. After being handed an R rating by the Motion Picture Association of America -- effectively ruining any...

  • Street Wise

    By on April 12, 2012

    Growing up in suburban Maryland, the most dangerous element in young Cyndee Clay's life may have been going to public school. Hers was a conservative...

  • Kahn Bravura!

    By on April 4, 2012

    Ask Michael Kahn if he's happy and here's the response you'll likely get: ''Last night, I was walking around the house and I said to...

  • Unchained Arias

    By on March 28, 2012

    Joey Arias is one strange fruit. That's true not just because the gay male performance artist gained some fame a couple decades ago singing –...

  • Born to Puppeteer

    By on March 28, 2012

    When Basil Twist saw Joey Arias flirting with his puppets, he knew it was fate. ''They had so much chemistry together,'' Twist says. ''The puppets...