Features
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The Nightlife Coverboy: A Brief History
You can blame it all on Ed Bailey. During the early days of Metro Weekly, Ed, who at the time ran VelvetNation and now co-owns...
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Assorted Views
Big Gay News.com (Minneapolis)Bradley Traynor covers headlines from across the world, from a LGBT perspective.Site: biggaynews.com. Feast of Fun (Chicago)A daily talk show hosted by...
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Aural Fixation
It's hard to take a radio show seriously when it gets its name from a gay stereotype. ''Swish'' was used once upon a time to...
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Show and Tell
Jonathan D. Katz was literally thrown out of New York's Guggenheim Museum in 2005. Katz, at the time the founding director of Lesbian and Gay...
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The Circle of Censorship [UPDATED]
On June 14, 1989, The New York Times reported, ''The Corcoran Gallery of Art has canceled a planned retrospective of the work of the photographer...
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Family Care
It's unlikely you ever met the late Carl Vogel. If you've seen his playwright sister Paula Vogel's Obie-winning Baltimore Waltz, you may have at least...
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Storied Lives
Moises Kaufman Moises Kaufman enjoys telling stories. He especially enjoys telling stories about how we tell stories. The Venezuelan-born, gay playwright and director says narrative...
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The Legacy of Laramie
As part of the Arena Stage productions of The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, Metro Weekly and Arena Stage will host...
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Wrestling with the Truth
Some people are very guarded when it comes to their personal space. Donna Rose is not one of them. Instead, she likes to hug. Her...
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Man in the Middle
As a young boy in New Jersey, just about yay-tall, Jonathan Capehart knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up: a television...
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The 7 Scariest Places in D.C.
They lurk behind their innocent facades, waiting for the moment your sense of safety lulls you into complacence. They toil and fester as they plot...
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Fighting to Save Our Youth
Charles Robbins never attempted suicide. Growing up in Denver and struggling as a gay youth, however, Robbins found solace in alcohol. ''I remember my first...
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Federal Questions
Discussion of LGBT bullying and youth suicide has led to increased efforts by organizations and individuals to eliminate – or, at least, lessen – both....
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Helping Hands
''It has been unbelievably painful to have these kind of daily reminders,'' Eliza Byard, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Student Education Network (GLSEN),...
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Homestyle
Oddly, spring is the season when we open our homes to fresh air and embark on epic cleaning sprees to have our houses ready for......
