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5 Days of Techmas – A Holiday Gift Guide: Accessories
Most of the technology we own isn’t identifiable items like smartphones and tablets. It’s stuff, paraphernalia, things — those chosen pieces that perform a particular...
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Marking an Apparent White House First, Male Marine Proposes to Boyfriend
The White House hosted what appears to have been its first ever same-sex engagement. On Saturday, U.S. Marine Corps Captain Matthew Phelps dropped to one...
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Ortiz Sentenced
A woman who evaded police for three years after she was accused of stabbing a lesbian friend in D.C. was sentenced Friday to eight years...
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Deadly Romance
America's romance with guns, an emblem of our frontier spirit, has claimed its most innocent victims. When shots rang out in Sandy Hook Elementary in...
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Fort Lauderdale ups its game in the quest for gay travelers
Already a top destination for gay travelers, Fort Lauderale is not resting in its effort to attract more members of the LGBT community to the...
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Williams Ends Stein Club Presidential Bid
Add another wrinkle to the controversy over the recent Gertrude Stein Democratic Club elections. With a meeting scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 19, where members of...
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Apples from the desert at Theater J
Theater J presents Savyon Liebrecht’s Apples from the Desert, a poignant drama about love and reconciliation, which was a hit in Israel. The play, directed...
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Anti-Gay Pundits Blame Secular Culture For Elementary School Shooting
Politics as usual came to a standstill for many in Washington today after a horrific shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut. Police in Newton,...
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Uganda Parliament Adjourns, No Action on Anti-Gay Bill
“Ugandan Parliament will adjourn today Fri 14th until Feb 2013 without considering the Anti-Homosexuality Bill.” Frank Mugisha, executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), tweeting...
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House Republicans’ Defense of DOMA Inches Toward $2 Million Mark
House Republicans are edging closer to the $2 million mark in their defense of the 1996 law that prohibits federal recognition of same-sex marriages. CQ...
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Stein Club Schism
In response to a series of challenges brought against the results of the Dec. 3 officer elections for the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the District's...
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Spotlight on Hagel’s LGBT Record Amid Appointment Speculation
Advocates are voicing concerns amid reports that former Sen. Chuck Hagel is at the top of President Barack Obama’s list to become the next Secretary...
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5 Days of Techmas – A Holiday Gift Guide: Games
Gaming transcends all other media. Films, television, comics, books — nothing can give such an interactive, immersive experience as playing a game. Want to be...
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“Beekman Boys” Rally Racers in Support of Gay Youth
“Thank you for helping him see that not only DOES it get better, it gets AMAZING.” Excerpt from a letter sent by the mother of...
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2012 Coverboy of the Year: Aaron Lee Smith
Aaron Lee Smith recently shot some hoops with a buddy's 8-year-old son. At least, he attempted to. ''I was trying to dribble, trying to do...
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Coverboy of the Year 2012 Interviews [video]
We go behind the scenes at the 2012 Coverboy of the Year shoot and talk to the three finalist, none of whom, at the time,...
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Coverboy First Runner-Up: Rich McPherson
{Rich McPherson (Photo by Julian Vankim)} Rich McPherson tends dance to his own tune. He's got the drive and the discipline, matched by an independent...
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Coverboy Second Runner-Up: Tim Warguleski
{Timothy Warguleski (Photo by Julian Vankim)} If you look up the word ''blunt'' in the dictionary, finding a picture of Metro Weekly Coverboy Tim Warguleski,...
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Remembering Armando Montano
Those who knew Armando ''Mando'' Montano, who appeared in Metro Weekly as the Aug. 11, 2011, Coverboy, were dealt a shock in June when the...
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Congratulations, Coverboys
During my pre-Metro Weekly years, I would pick up an issue and go straight to Coverboy Confidential. I still read it, of course, but now...
