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  • Truly Yours

    By on January 29, 2003

    Dear Lena, I'm a manager at a suburban Starbucks coffee shop. It's a job I've done efficiently and effectively for close to five years now....

  • Speaking in Mothertongues

    By on January 22, 2003

    Last night I went to Mothertongue, which packed the Black Cat with over two hundred wild women, poets, and writers of every sexuality our fair...

  • Community Matters

    By on January 22, 2003

    Washington's gay and lesbian presence in the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is set to grow again, as the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU) adds...

  • Showing Some Skin

    By on January 22, 2003

    Photography by Michael Wichita Between the ASGRA gay rodeo and leather weekend, the gay community ensures that D.C. will experience an influx of both chaps...

  • Man of The Hours

    By on January 22, 2003

    Photography by Michael Wichita Michael Cunningham likes genre fiction -- spy stories, romances, thrillers, sci-fi. Stuff you'd buy in an airport along with a copy...

  • Jack's Back

    By on January 22, 2003

    A little too low key for its own good, About Schmidt amounts to much less than the sum of its parts. ''I don't know whether...

  • Night Flight

    By on January 22, 2003

    Twelfth Night glows with an alternative-styled sexiness, while Last Seder is a skillful exploration of family dynamics in disarray. Playing for laughs: Marshall and Twyford....

  • Feast Your Ears

    By on January 22, 2003

    A gorgeous mix of jaunty ballads and emotive instrumentals, Feast of Wire is the polar opposite of a shampoo commercial Country music's insurrection into pop...

  • Soundwaves

    By on January 22, 2003

    RUSSIAN GIRLS IN LOVE... It might be, as every music critic writing about them has skeptically suggested, just a gimmick that the Russian teenagers in...

  • Hearsay

    By on January 22, 2003

    Paying homage to Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend, Hearsay finds itself a master… Diving headfirst into the Deep End… Hearsay's first official sighting of a leatherman came...

  • Feeling Feint

    By on January 15, 2003

    Photography by Michael Wichita If P Street is where the roots were planted, the family tree has since branched out to Connecticut Avenue, 17th and...

  • Soundwaves

    By on January 15, 2003

    DISCO INFERNO… Can you believe it's been thirty years since disco first boogie-oogie-oogied? Well it has, and ABC has come to the rescue to commemorate...

  • Finest Hours

    By on January 15, 2003

    The Hours is perhaps the most improbable mainstream-oriented movie to emerge from Hollywood this year. A character-study mood piece that envelops you like a mist,...

  • Fantasy Man

    By on January 15, 2003

    Biographer Charles Castillo gives more depth to John Rechy the man, while taxing Rechy the fantasy. Once upon a time, gay Americans were better known...

  • Delightful Dogs

    By on January 15, 2003

    Sharp and accessible satire makes What Dogs Do highly recommendable to audiences of every stripe. A play about the inner workings of theatre can be...

  • Soup's On

    By on January 15, 2003

    Taking Stock: Ani DiFranco The annual Queerstock music festival is predicated on a radical idea -- that the fight for liberation is useless if you...

  • First Lady of Leather

    By on January 15, 2003

    Photography by Todd Franson ''Many times, I see people who I call ‘sniffers.' They come to the hotel where MAL is held and look around...

  • Born Again

    By on January 15, 2003

    Photography by Michael Wichita In many ways, December 27 was a bigger day for the tabloids than the medical community. The news of the world's...

  • Transformation Train

    By on January 15, 2003

    It's April 1993, and we are golden. Everywhere we look, we are affirmed -- everyone's smiling and friendly, and after my first six months in...

  • What's in a Word?

    By on January 15, 2003

    GLAA's Rick Rosendall (Photo by Michael Wichita) Are you now, or have you ever been, a homosexual? Or do you prefer the more modern appellation,...