Metro Weekly

Features

  • Gentle Ben

    It's likely the fantasy of many gay men. In a New York City hotel room, Ben Cohen, 32, is fresh from the shower. Sorry, gents,...

  • The 2011 Next Generation Awards

    Every generation builds on the accomplishments of those who came before. The rights we enjoy today were secured by the work of the generation before...

  • The 2011 Next Generation Awards Panel

    The Next Generation Award winners are chosen from community nominations by a panel of local LGBT leaders. The 2011 Next Generation Awards selection panelists are:...

  • Gregory Cendana

    In no small way being taunted growing up in Sacramento, Calif., inspired Gregory Cendana to activism. ''Even though I wasn't out in elementary and middle...

  • Victoria Kirby

    Ralph Ellison wrote The Invisible Man as a novel exploring the narrator's sense of social invisibility as an African-American man of the early 20th century....

  • Daniel Fredrick O'Neill

    ''It's a sobering thought, how affected our community still is – whether it's preventable in a lot of ways or not,'' says Daniel Fredrick O'Neill...

  • Sadie Ryanne Vashti

    It was just before Christmas of last year that Sadie Ryanne Vashti sent an email to her mother asking if she could return home to...

  • Domestic Disturbance

    Part One of a series marking the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act Talking with Andrew Sullivan about marriage is...

  • Mame's Scrapbook: Five Decades of Fabulous

    After a tour in the Navy, Carl Rizzi came to D.C. for a career in the Postal Service. But the life of a fabulous high-drag...

  • Home & Garden

    The upside of having four strong and distinct seasons is that spring always arrives as a breath of relief from the long, cold months of...

  • Out on the Farm

    It started simply, as these things go. Manhattanites Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge felt the lure of a weekend place in the country, a place...

  • Million Dollar Man

    Lifetime Television used to be the gay man's go-to station. Today -- perhaps even more so than Logo -- that distinction would seem to go...

  • Spring Seediness

    In Russian, the root for both ''red'' and ''beautiful'' is ''kras.'' Some say this aspect of the language evolved out of Russia's notoriously harsh winters,...

  • House Hunting

    For some, spring is not about ''spring cleaning'' your home, but rather about buying a new one. ''A lot of people do like to get...

  • Spiffing Up for Spring

    When we need to center ourselves or achieve a feeling of inner calm, we take a deep breath and slowly let it out. Your home...