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  • 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 JosƩ 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, EbonƩ 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...

  • National boycott of Jamaica due to rampant violence against gays set to launch in NYC

    ”If you love your gay friends and family members, you won’t visit Jamaica. If you care about the human rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and...

  • Lindsay Lohan pokes fun at herself with mock eHarmony profile [video]

    ”I’m recently single … I think.” Actress Lindsay Lohan appearing on FunnyOrDie in an eHarmony-style personal profile. She mentions many of the infamous things she’s...

  • Maryland votes to remove ‘gay tax’ on property; sidesteps transgender issue

    The Associated Press is reporting that Maryland the legislature has passed a revision to existing inheritance laws that benefits same-sex couples. The bill still needs...