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  • 2009: The Year in Scene

    By on December 24, 2009

    JANUARY 8 · Bare Cobalt · Be: Bad Be Bar · Team DC Holiday Party and Brandy Dover Christmas for

  • Grant Cleveland

    By on December 16, 2009

    First things first. If you read Grant Cleveland's October ''Coverboy Confidential'' interview, you might still have a couple of questions. For starters, Metro Weekly asked...

  • Cesar Ayala

    By on December 16, 2009

    ''Dreams do come true,'' says Cesar Ayala. ''Look at me, I made it to the top three.'' Ayala, 22, woke up screaming with joy the...

  • Ryan Metzler

    By on December 16, 2009

    ''I'm very aware of the fact that I'm not the tallest person in the world,'' says Ryan Metzler. Just how tall is the stunning 20-year-old?...

  • Punch-Line Politics

    By on December 9, 2009

    Two transgender rabbis walk into a bar.... Wait, scratch that. Riki Wilchins, among the most prominent voices in America's gender-identity discourse, has taken a new...

  • Waters World

    By on December 2, 2009

    In the annals of cinema, there are few Christmas moments more uproarious than the one launching 1974's Female Trouble, as teen bad girl Dawn Davenport...

  • Finding Hope

    By on November 26, 2009

    Watch a random episode of The Simpsons and you may well hear a panicked Helen Lovejoy -- the reverend's wife -- screaming, ''Won't somebody please...

  • Trans Awakening

    By on November 18, 2009

    On Wednesdays, Earline Budd is behind bars. It's usually from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. when the 51-year-old spends her time at the D.C. Department...

  • Unforgettable Sarah Marshall

    By on November 11, 2009

    There's a funny thing about Sarah Marshall. (That is, something besides the fact that, thanks to a certain movie, a Google search of her name...

  • Wrapped Up

    By on November 4, 2009

    The beast is almost here. Do you hear the tintinnabulation of its bells around the corner? See the glinting gold and silver of a million...

  • Touting Terror

    By on October 28, 2009

    Fear bonds people together. So do joy, lust and a number of other extreme emotions. It's just that fear rarely receives its due. Rather, communal...

  • A Royal Outing

    By on October 28, 2009

    Halloween has always been a holiday particularly well celebrated by two groups of people -- the queer community and kids. In the past few years,...

  • Batty for Halloween

    By on October 28, 2009

    (Photo by Todd ''Fresh from the Grave'' Franson ) A time for terror? A chance to play dress-up? A family affair? Halloween can be all...

  • Dressed to Kill

    By on October 28, 2009

    You can learn a lot about other people by trying to be one of them. At least, that's the lesson I learned years ago, the...

  • Daniel's Choice

    By on October 21, 2009

    Lt. Daniel Choi -- West Point grad, Arabic linguist, platoon leader, Iraq War veteran -- isn't the first soldier to be targeted by the military's...