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  • Exercising Judgment

    We're often told to judge not, lest we be judged by others. Perhaps it's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it. In this...

  • Leather Heart, Warm Heart

    As the director of development for Charlie's Place at St. Margaret's, local folk-singer favorite Tom Goss has to keep his eye on the dollars that...

  • Puppy Play

    The heyday of biker gangs and leather daddies is so 1970s. While leather, boots and a jockstrap used to be de rigueur attire for Mid-Atlantic...

  • Sexy Edge

    You might say dance-music singer Ultra Naté proposed to Quentin Harris. ''We went into the studio and started working at first was going...

  • Leather Nights

    It's not just your imagination – there is more leather and fetish nightlife during this year's Mid-Atlantic Leather weekend than ever before. ''Years ago, MAL...

  • 2012: A Look Ahead

    Being that so much of the future is uncertain, it's wise to pin down what you can. Will Nibiru materialize out of nowhere and give...

  • Year in Scene 2011

    Visit Metro Weekly’s Scene section to see all of our pictures Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Click a...

  • An Odd Year

    In that life keeps moving forward, the laws of the universe make it impossible to revisit everything in the past. There is certainly plenty, however,...

  • Organizational (Mis)Steps

    Earlier this year, when it was discovered that the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation had sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission in...

  • Battles Ahead

    ''It's so romantic to think that I would be able to marry you on my leave,'' Army Capt. Steve Hill says he told the man...

  • DOMA's Changing Landscape

    On Feb. 23, Attorney General Eric Holder made the historic announcement that the Department of Justice would no longer be defending Section 3 of the...

  • Peaks and Valleys

    The pragmatic conservatism of Log Cabin Republicans may have kept them in the news in 2011 as the group pursued its lawsuit challenging ''Don't Ask,...

  • Revisiting Violence

    At year's end, the local LGBT community is recovering from a year of violent attacks directed at LGBT individuals, particularly transgender women of color. Beginning...

  • Maryland Falls Short

    Close, but no cigar. Despite large socially conservative Catholic and African-American populations, heavily Democratic Maryland was seen by many at the start of 2011 as...

  • A Tale of Two Closets

    Mr. Spock is gay. Or, at least, this Star Trek timeline's version of the iconic Vulcan is played by Zachary Quinto, who came out in...