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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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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),...

  • 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......

  • True Colors

    Whatever you do, don’t ask David Bromstad to name his favorite color. “Impossible!” he exclaims. “That’s such an unfair question!” Who said life was fair,...

  • Fall Fixes

    Imagine you live in Miami. It’s hot in the summer. It can be pretty hot in the winter, too. And as far as seasonal variations...