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  • Singin’ in the Rain at the E Street

    The E Street Cinema continues its first-ever “Capital Classics” series this weekend with two very different films. There’s what many consider to be the greatest...

  • Coverboy: Rick

    One of the things that's made Rick happiest is losing himself – literally. Out of high school, the ''fat, funny, gay guy'' decided two out...

  • Building Violation

    Tower Heist is loud, stuffed with famous people, insistent to the point of shamelessness, and oh-so-very obvious. There's no common denominator it can't lower and...

  • Farewell to a Fighter

      (Photo by John Riley)} Hundreds of members of the LGBT community and local civic leaders gathered at the historic Carnegie Library in D.C.'s Mount...

  • Furr Likely To Get Plea Deal

    Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Worm told D.C. Superior Court Judge Ann O'Regan Keary at a felony status hearing Nov. 4 that the government is close...

  • Nina Ananiashvili at Lisner

    One of the world’s most beloved ballerinas, having danced with the Kirov Theatre, the Royal Danish Ballet, the London Royal Ballet and the New York...

  • Photo Quality

    Things have a way of serendipitously knocking Scott Pasfield off course. Or, perhaps, back on course. In 1994, it was the avalanche out West that...

  • Male Men

    If you head out to the opening exhibit at Vitruvian Gallery, on display through Nov. 19, you're sure to run into Edmund. Certainly you'll pass...

  • Soap Box

    Growing up in a small town in central Florida, Kalup Linzy was obsessed with soap operas. ''In high school, I ran track and watched the...

  • Senate Committee Considers DOMA Repeal Bill, Moves Forward Out Gay Judicial Nominee

    [Photo: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) opens a business committee meeting to consider the Respect for Marriage Act, as well as several judicial...

  • New website offers deals on customized LGBT getaway packages

    Similar to discount providers such as Groupon and LivingSocial, OffTo is a new web-based service devoted entirely to providing deals on customized LGBT-friendly travel in the...

  • An Angry Heart

    Larry Kramer, with his dog Charley, in his Manhattan home (Photo by Chris Geidner) Since the publication of Faggots in 1978, Larry Kramer has been...

  • Look Back in Anger

    If I had to choose the aspect of my own writing I like least, it would be my tendency to delve into optimistic cheerleading. The...

  • Billions of Babies

    Humanity has marked another milestone. We've not gone on to Mars or figured out how to create endless, cheap energy. Rather, our biologically programmed horniness...

  • Montgomery College Adopts LGBT Measures

    Montgomery College, a community college in Maryland, is rolling out a campaign to make the environment at its three campuses more inclusive of LGBT students,...

  • Judge Oetken

    On Thursday, Oct. 27, more than 20 judges of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York assembled in a special session...

  • Sorting Out Solutions

    A group of LGBT people of color and community organizations held a modified town-hall forum Thursday, Oct. 27, to address violence and discrimination against people...

  • Walking for Whitman-Walker

    Rain and snow flurries may have kept some away, but failed to dampen the mood of some 5,000 participants in Washington's 25th Annual AIDS Walk...

  • Queen for a Year

    When it comes to drag, D.C. may not have the recognition of San Francisco or Sydney. But if the Miss Gay America pageant is a...

  • Hail Cesar

    From first runner-up for 2009 Metro Weekly Coverboy of the Year to Mr. Gay Washington D.C. 2011-2012, Cesar Ayala shows no signs of slowing down....