Metro Weekly

Features

  • The Rule of Three

    The idea that significant deaths come in threes is an attractive myth that's always easy to see in hindsight – consider December 2011's intriguing grouping...

  • 2011 Coverboy of the Year: Tyler Coffey

    So maybe he overshared a bit. In his Coverboy profile last May, Tyler Coffey revealed the most unusual place he's had sex. ''A lifeguard station...

  • First Runner-Up: Kory Davis

    As far as Kory Davis is concerned, life's all about openness and honesty. The frank, outgoing 25-year-old tells it like it is. ''I just speak...

  • Second Runner-Up: Moises Navarrete

    There was a time when young Moises Navarrete might have shied from the spotlight. A few years ago, the attention the Northern Virginia native was...

  • The Ambassador of Out

    James Hormel fits the role of a statesman well. Turning 79 next month, the former U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg is actively engaged in national LGBT...

  • The Obsession of Holland Taylor

    Holland Taylor is obsessed. Not with image, or awards, or even celebrity. She's obsessed with the late governor of Texas, Ann Richards. Coming to the...

  • World AIDS Day 2011

    It is Dec. 1. It is time, again, to mark World AIDS Day. As with winter, soon to follow, one might say that AIDS is...

  • In Harm's Way

    For a month, Frank Mugisha is out of Uganda. In late October, he arrived in Norway, where he received the Rafto Prize on behalf of...

  • Wingspan

    It's a warm November Thursday and Ted Clements is getting ready for business. He walks through the empty – almost hallowed – space on New...

  • Clinton's Administrations

      {Kate Clinton (Photo by Jurek Wajdowicz)} There's a fine line between charisma and charm. If charisma is the bait, charm is the rod and...

  • An Angry Heart

    Larry Kramer, with his dog Charley, in his Manhattan home (Photo by Chris Geidner) Since the publication of Faggots in 1978, Larry Kramer has been...

  • Heartfelt Tribute

    Holly Twyford almost chokes up recalling the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, when fear and death ran rampant. ''I still have a kind of...

  • The Great Septime

    Septime Webre was drawn to dance early. ''I'm half-Cuban,'' he says, ''and there's an old Cuban saying that Cubans dance before they can walk.'' {Septime...

  • ''Good Trouble''

    ''Who would ever have expected, when I was nastily fired in 1957, that in 2009, the very government itself would apologize to me for what...

  • Local Legacy

    Following Frank Kameny's death last week at 86, the area's LGBT community was left to ponder the loss of a prominent figure in its history....