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Reel Affirmations 20
Welcome to Metro Weekly's total review and guide to the Reel Affirmations film festival for 2011. Reel Affirmations 20 runs from Thursday, Oct. 13, through...
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Movie Magic
The 2011 installment of Reel Affirmations, the 20th anniversary of the international LGBT film festival, is many things. It's a showcase of LGBT culture. It's...
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Junk No More
Mark Morgan had a rough transition in 2001. First, he underwent major surgery in May that could have left him with a colostomy bag or...
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Cher cries as Chaz Bono and Carson Kressley survive another episode of “Dancing with the Stars”
Cher took to Twitter after this week’s fourth edition of Dancing with the Stars. Her son, Chaz Bono, the show’s first transgender contestant, made it...
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Supreme Court Turns Down Louisiana Adoption Birth Certificate Challenge Brought By Gay Couple
Today, without comment, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case challenging Louisiana’s policy that prevents unmarried adoptive parents from both being listed on...
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Frank Kameny Dies at 86
Frank Kameny, 86, a pioneer of the modern gay rights movement, was found dead on Tuesday evening, Oct. 11, National Coming Out Day. ''It is...
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CA Gov. Brown Signs Two Pro-Trans Bills Into Law [and Signs Bullying Bill, Vetoes LGBT Data Bill]
California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed two pro-transgender equality bills into law on Oct. 9. Masen Davis, the executive director of the Transgender Law Center,...
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The Human Centipede 2 Midnight at Landmark’s E Street Cinemas
Landmark’s E Street Cinema presents the D.C. premiere of The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence, sequel to one of the most controversial horror films ever...
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I Shot Andy Warhol at Busboys & Poets
Busboys & Poets offers a special screening of the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol, about the life of the anti-male lesbian Valerie Solaris (Lily...
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Judge Considers Government’s Writ Request in Choi’s Trial
The federal government asked U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Chief Judge Royce Lamberth today to stop a magistrate judge in the court...
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The Habit of Art – Extended (and now with video!)
Alan Bennett’s play-within-a-play, The Habit of Art, follows an imagined meeting between openly gay poet W. H. Auden and closeted composer Benjamin Britten a year...
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Take Me Out at Dominion Stage
In Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out, Darren Lemming, the star center fielder of the world champion New York Empires, comes out as gay and trouble...
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The Indigo Girls at Strathmore
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers — better known as The Indigo Girls — have been at it for well more than two decades now, but...
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Liz Prescott at the DC Center
Liz Prescott is the featured performer at this month’s open mike night at the Center, D.C.’s LGBT community center. A semi-finalist in the first national...
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Henry Rollins at NatGeo Live!
Henry Rollins is a D.C.-native punk rocker, a spoken word artist, a frequent TV show host, and, last but not least, a vigorous LGBT ally....
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Artisphere celebrates its first anniversary
Arlington’s Artisphere turns a year old this weekend with a celebration featuring original art, music and off-beat arts activities. The arts complex commissioned local artist...
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Cowboys Calling It Quits UPDATED
They started as a small group of dancers at the area's Atlantic Stampede LGBT rodeo 17 years ago and have since gained national and international...
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Obama slept here, and you can too
The Phoenician is rolling out the red . . . ah, make that pink carpet for LGBT travelers with its Pride in the Desert package...
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California juror believes murdered gay teen was the bully
”This wasn’t about him being gay…. This was about bullying. There was a ton of evidence that Larry was acting inappropriately with other kids at school,...
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Shared History
My first trips to D.C. while I was still a college student in southwestern Virginia were particularly strong indicators of what a country boy I...
