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Last Chance: Crown of Shadows
Jason Gray Pratt wrote the Round House Theatre world premiere Crown of Shadows: The Wake of Odysseus offering a gripping, modern take on The Odyssey...
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Keegan takes to Dupont Circle
Actors from the Keegan Theatre will step outside of its Church Street home to perform in Dupont Circle this Saturday, May 5. The purpose of...
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Generation Now
Eighteen years old may seem young for a human being, but it seems pretty old for a magazine. This issue of Metro Weekly is the...
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Surveying the Transgender Scene
For the next six months to a year, the DC Trans Coalition (DCTC) will be surveying members of the District's transgender community in hopes of...
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Ruby Corado to Open LGBT Latino Resource Center
Everybody is welcome at Casa Ruby. That's the pitch from local transgender activist Ruby Corado, who plans to open an LGBT-targeted resource center in Columbia...
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Circle Celebration
D.C.'s 16th annual Youth Pride celebration went ahead as planned Saturday, April 28, with periods of cloudiness and sunshine, but none of the showers that...
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Dancing to Memories
''It started out as kind of a stutter,'' says Kyle Abraham, about his father's aphasia, a type of brain damage. ''Two years later, it started...
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Black Bluegrass
The black string music tradition predates the blues. It even influenced and echoes what is today commonly known as traditional folk and bluegrass. But don't...
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Uplifted: Pilobolus
Nile Russell was all ready to give up dancing. ''In modern dance, there were people freaking out the audience just for the sake of freaking...
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Avenging Marvels
Take a minute to consider how incredible it is that The Avengers exists. This movie, after all, is more than seven years in the making....
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The Bach Sinfonia presents Zelenka
Ever hear of Jan Dismas Zelenka? Well, the Bach Sinfonia calls Zelenka “the Bohemian Baroque,” and says his rich and colorful output equals that of...
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Christopher Barnhill
Christopher Barnhill may be only 25 years old. But to hear this Metro Weekly Next Generation Award winner tell it, he's already fulfilling his life's...
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Iimay Ho
Iimay Ho remembers one of the first times direct activism paid off for her. While a junior in high school, one of her classmates drew...
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Terra Tempest Moore
Describing Terra Tempest Moore, Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League Executive Director Andrew Barnett wrote, ''She is a natural leader, talented public speaker, and fierce advocate...
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David M. Pérez
Some gay people grow up to run screaming from conservative Christian upbringings. Not David M. Pérez. This Southern California native embraced the values of his...
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2012 Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards Selection Panel
The Next Generation Awards are chosen from a pool of community nominations by a panel of Washington-area LGBT leaders from the worlds of arts, activism,...
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The 2012 Next Generation Awards
As a community, it is vital that we understand our past so our history can be told. But if we hope to see change come...
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Think Pink
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force produces the famed Winter Party Festival in Miami, with the tagline ''party with a purpose.'' But why should...
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New Video: Chiddy Bang’s Mind Your Manners ft. Icona Pop
Chiddy Bang premiered their newest video today. “Mind Your Manners” follows their single “Ray Charles,” and is another track off their debut BREAKFAST. The upbeat...
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BLAG Seeks Intervention to Defend DOMA in SLDN Lawsuit Seeking Equal Spousal Benefits
The House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group today sought to intervene, as expected, in the challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act and related laws brought...
