Features
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The 2010 Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards
The idea that youth is wasted on the young is the fallacy of someone with a misspent youth. The reality is that youth is the...
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Amy Loudermilk
Next Generation Awards 2010 By the time she was 10, Amy Loudermilk knew that phoning her best friend and getting a busy signal meant one...
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Andrew Barnett
The Next Generation Awards 2010 When Andrew Barnett headed out to earn his bachelor's degree, the Alexandria native got about as far away as he...
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Harjant Gill
The Next Generation Awards 2010 Some people turn to drinking and partying to cope with heartbreak. Harjant Gill turned to filmmaking. ''When I started college,...
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Hyacinth Alvaran
The Next Generation Awards 2010 Hyacinth Alvaran's story may have started in the Philippines, but her story is being told most forcefully in here in...
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Brian Watson
The 2009 Next Generation Awards: Where Are They Now? Over the past year, Brian Watson has cut back on some of his local advocacy --...
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Eboné Bell
The 2009 Next Generation Awards: Where Are They Now? It's been nearly a year and a half since Eboné Bell quit her day job to...
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José Ramirez
The 2009 Next Generation Awards: Where Are They Now? As Metro Weekly honors the second round of Next Generation awardees, one of the 2009 crop...
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Linh Hoang
The 2009 Next Generation Awards: Where Are They Now? It's April 20. Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano is spewing airliner-threatening ash into European airspace. Linh Hoang is...
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Queer on Campus
It was not so long ago that a gay-friendly campus was one harboring a frat house that would allow a guy with an earring. Today,...
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University of Maryland: Terrapins Meet ''Golden Girls''
GETTING INVOLVED with your university's LGBT group is ''just one of those things you do when you get in college,'' says Natalia Cuadra-Saez. The 20-year-old...
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University of the District of Columbia: Community for Commuters
IT ISN'T LIKE most universities in the area, The University of the District of Columbia -- within the District, it is the only public institution...
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Howard University: Acronyms Full of Equality
IN OCTOBER 2008, BLAGOSAH celebrated not only the group's eight-year anniversary, but a resurgence after a few years of a sort of slumber. What was...
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Georgetown University: Pride and Jesuits
THERE'S RARELY AN upside to a hate crime, though Georgetown University may be that rare exception. In the fall of 2007, a season in which...
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George Washington University: Showing Pride On Campus and Off
WHEN MARRIAGE EQUALITY hit the District on March 3, George Washington University was at the forefront. Among the first same-sex couples to wed at D.C....
