Metro Weekly

Columns

  • The Path to Pride

    Ten years ago I celebrated my first Pride here in Washington. Little did I know what my level of involvement would be now, and I...

  • Community Spirits

    I've never been asked our stalwart Coverboy question, ''What position do you play in the big baseball game of life?'' But, in case you were...

  • Tales of Survival

    June 5 marked the 30th anniversary of the first report of what became known as AIDS, when the Centers for Disease Control described cases of...

  • History of Pride

    Almost three decades before Stonewall, a gay African-American man named Bayard Rustin organized a 1941 March on Washington so successful that it never even took...

  • To Remember and Renew

    During the first three decades of HIV and AIDS, more than 575,000 Americans lost their lives. This week, as we mark the 30th anniversary of...

  • News Judgment

    It's one of the most obvious and oft-repeated truisms of the day that the news business is a wildly different beast than it was two...

  • Global Grassroots

    Although I'm writing this on Memorial Day, Monday will be a distant news-cycle memory come Thursday's publication. That does not stop me, however, from considering...

  • The Years Go By

    Perhaps it's just the advent of Pride, but I feel like I'm living in a season of anniversaries. It does seem that spring is the...

  • Black and White

    Appeals to race remain popular at both ends of the political spectrum. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on May 13 called President Obama ''the...

  • Life at the Intersections

    These past couple of weeks I have been humbled by the outpour of love and support from the community as one of the recipients of...

  • Sporting Chances

    Back in the days when Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova were making news as professional tennis players who were lesbian, I was still a...

  • Taking Stock

    LGBT people often have to come out more than once. Perhaps you've started a new job and your encyclopedia-like grasp of Glee hasn't tipped off...

  • Generation Next

    As I was showing off this week's cover to a group of colleagues, one of them asked me to tell them about this year's Next...

  • Day of the Devil

    In the Star Trek episode ''Day of the Dove,'' humans and Klingons are stranded together on the Enterprise by a non-corporeal life form that feeds...

  • An Anniversary of Equality

    Thirty years ago, a group of LGBT individuals formed what is now known as the Arlington Gay & Lesbian Alliance (AGLA). At first, most AGLA...