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  • Berlin Beats

    Micky Friedmann spent some 15 years as a professional ballet dancer in Israel and Europe. But now, in addition to print modeling work, the 35-year-old's...

  • Identity Crisis

    Let me make myself perfectly clear: Watchmen isn't your ordinary comic-book superhero movie. It's an extraordinary comic-book superhero movie. Cast of 'The Watchmen' The long-awaited,...

  • Roll Over! Speak! Lick!

    Hearsay happened upon this adorable little site earlier today. Naturally, it commanded the eager-to-please little pupperoni to speak, roll over, jump and dance. It then...

  • Tyra Banks takes on self-loathing gays [video]

    Tyra Banks hosted a show with the topic, “I Hate Being Gay.” It began like this: “This is Shane, and he says gay people are...

  • Seattle experiences string of anti-gay assaults

    ”I remember being hit hard, where I fell and my hands were bruised falling directly on the ground…. As of now, there’s feelings of shame,...

  • DC home of gay activist Frank Kameny designated a Historic Landmark

    “Today is D.C.’s recognition of his role, locally and nationally, in turning around discrimination against homosexuals…. If you are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender and...

  • Philadelphia pulls $115,000 in funding from annual gay Equality Forum

    ”When Mayor Nutter was elected, we felt like we finally had a seat at the table. Now we feel like that seat has been pulled...

  • RNC head Michael Steele proves himself wrong in so many ways on gay civil unions [video]

    From the the Michael Gallagher radio show: STEELE: No, no no. What would we do that for? What are you crazy? No. Why would we...

  • Vacation Baggage

    Dateline: ms Eurodam, at sea, Feb. 22. Don't ask me what the ''ms'' stands for, or why it's not capitalized. Were I at work, I'd...

  • Phoenix Rising

    Tell someone you will be visiting Phoenix and the likely response will be ''which part?'' Phoenix has grown rapidly in the last decade to become...

  • American U. Honors

    The GLBTA Resource Center at American University is currently accepting applications for the Richard L. Schlegel National Legion of Honor Award in two categories: Emerging...

  • Seeking GLBTs Under 30

    Metro Weekly is currently accepting nominations for the newsmagazine's first annual Next Generation Awards, recognizing GLBT activists, leaders and artists under the age of 30,...

  • D.C. 'Fired Up' for Gay Games

    D.C. is officially ''fired up'' in hopes of winning a bid to host the 2014 Gay Games in the District. Vince Micone, President of the...

  • Singing Truth to Power

    David Jobin was in tears as he watched the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington perform during President Barack Obama's Inauguration festivities. ''That a gay chorus...

  • Gay Green Leaders

    Local gay resident Daniel Guilbeault takes a deep breath and makes a startling revelation: ''I've dated a driver before.'' Of course, that's dating. It would...

  • Cracking Uranus

    ''It'll be like a talent show in space,'' says Shea Van Horn of Town's debut Crack party this Saturday, dubbed a ''Journey to Uranus.'' Van...

  • Fabulously Freddie's

    Step into Freddie's world for a night -- with splashes of blue and purple, flamingoes and cocktail umbrellas -- and it's easy to forget you're...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: Like an old-fashioned quilt, this beginning is made of the endings of other things. Shall we mourn the old more than we celebrate...

  • Hounds of Love

    In his somewhat overlong, overdone comic-poignant The Dog in the Manger, now at The Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre, Spanish Renaissance playwright Lope de Vega...

  • Creature Feature

    Montreal-based musicians Jean-Phi Goncalves and Betty Bonifassi each had their own careers going before they teamed up to experiment as Beast. Among other things, Goncalves...