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  • Tennessee schools blocking all gay info websites; ACLU demands removal of filter

    ””When I found out about this web filtering software, I wasn’t looking for anything sexual or inappropriate – I was looking for information about scholarships...

  • Changing Rabbis

    Growing up in Chicago, Rabbi Toby Manewith thought she was going to be a lawyer. ''I sort of always wanted to be a lawyer,'' the...

  • Tackling Transphobia

    Nightlife in D.C. is not as transgender-inclusive as it ought to be. At least, not according to Equality, Campus Style, a coalition of local GLBT...

  • Wilson's Return

    It was just about this time last year that members of DC Black Pride (DCBP) got the news that Daryl Wilson would be running a...

  • Turning Point

    I listened to my boyfriend Patrick on the overseas call as he tried to wrap his French-African voice around the unfamiliar word, ''Iowa.'' The gay...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: It's time to make up your mind. It's time to change your mind. It's time to choose and reflect on your choices. It's...

  • Nuts

    Sometimes you should absolutely judge a book by its cover. 'One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest' The moment you take your seat for Round House...

  • Marriage and Money

    Michael Crawford has been hearing ''I do'' quite a lot lately. Mainly, it's when he's volunteering as a member of DC For Marriage, asking D.C....

  • Being Boring

    Neil Tennant wants to rekindle the romance. ''I'd survive with only memories, if I could change the way I feel,'' the Pet Shop Boys frontman...

  • Cherry's New Taste

    ''People should expect a different look from what they normally see,'' says Cherry Fund co-chair Allen Sexton, talking about the nonprofit organization's annual weekend event....

  • Local and Luscious

    There is a story D.C.-native Patrick O'Connell, the openly gay proprietor and chef -- one of the world's very best -- of the Inn at...

  • Life Before Wartime

    ''Berliner Kabarett is like a musical quilt,'' says the show's director Christopher Gallu. ''It's got all these songs that were never intended to be put...

  • Brian Watson

    During his elementary school years, you wouldn't find Brian Watson on the busy playground with the other kids during recess. Instead he preferred to stay...

  • José Ramirez

    Growing up as a teenager in Durham, N.C., was not easy for José Ramirez. He remembers the embarrassment of the school bus arriving some mornings,...

  • Linh Hoang

    There is very little to Linh Hoang that is not on the move. Emigrating from Vietnam at age 10, that flight across the Pacific to...

  • Eboné Bell

    Last December, Eboné Bell quit her day job as the advertising manager at the Chronicle of Higher Education. She wanted to focus full time on...

  • The 2009 Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards

    2009 Next Generation Awardees: (clockwise from left) Hoang, Watson, Ramirez, Bell The story of our community is a story of generations. The generation that formed...

  • University of Virginia anti-gay hate crime: 5 young men assault 2 others [video]

    ”Based upon the facts as we currently know them, we believe this to be a bias-motivated crime, in that the perceived sexual orientation of the...

  • Hey, Big Bidder

    While a load of Republicans may have left town with the political reversal of fortune, plenty are headed to D.C. this weekend, April 16 to...

  • Do You Want to Be a Supermodel?

    The following just came across Hearsay’s transom, also known as an iPhone. Hearsay, being in a sharing mood, thought it would share the request with...