Metro Weekly

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  • The Homophobic Lifestyle

    By on May 6, 2009

    With the recent protests against marriage quality -- replete with a grandstanding politician, muddy logic, and faith in God being on one's side -- there's...

  • Strange Fruit

    By on April 29, 2009

    The recent suicides by hanging of two 11-year-old boys in response to anti-gay bullying -- Carl Walker-Hoover in Massachusetts on April 6 and Jaheem Herrera...

  • The Living Dread

    By on April 22, 2009

    Zombies are enjoying a pop-culture heyday. You can keep Twilight and Rise of the Lycans. The buzz is all about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,...

  • Bruised Brotherhood

    By on April 8, 2009

    If there is a no-man's land between The New Gay and The Old Gay, I am sitting in it. To be clear, these are not...

  • Hoops and Heresy

    By on April 1, 2009

    I have been a bit conflicted lately. On one hand, I've been rooting for my Catholic alma mater, Villanova, in the NCAA men's basketball playoffs....

  • Taxes for Tyrants

    By on March 18, 2009

    I recently excerpted the HIV/AIDS-related items from the State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2008. The grim survey ranges from Russia, where...

  • The New Victims

    By on March 11, 2009

    There are certain clichés about ''liberals,'' ''progressives,'' ''lefties,'' what have you. As a longtime spy in that house of love, I can tell you that...

  • Hello, Cruel World

    By on March 4, 2009

    This is a good time to take stock of the threats faced by GLBT people around the world. That's because on Feb. 25, the State...

  • Vacation Baggage

    By on February 25, 2009

    Dateline: ms Eurodam, at sea, Feb. 22. Don't ask me what the ''ms'' stands for, or why it's not capitalized. Were I at work, I'd...

  • State of the Union

    By on February 18, 2009

    Two kinds of union were celebrated Feb. 12. First, Americans honored the 200th birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, who preserved the union and ended slavery....

  • Yinning My Yang

    By on February 11, 2009

    Here comes Valentine's Day and the attendant red, chocolate and roses. My first memory of the holiday is from early childhood. It's not of the...

  • Unholy Warriors

    By on February 4, 2009

    Before Colorado Springs megachurch pastor Ted Haggard was ruined in 2006 by revelations of his involvement with a male hustler, he was interviewed for Oren...

  • Straights to Hell

    By on January 28, 2009

    The Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend has come and gone, and hats off to the Centaur MC organizers for once again doing their part to actually express...

  • Small Things, Big Moment

    By on January 21, 2009

    Greetings from the past: I am writing two days before the formal start of a new political era, for publication two days after. In the...

  • Prouder than Bombs

    By on January 14, 2009

    Here it is, some 60 years since the Israeli Declaration of Independence, and the bombs are still falling. Hamas is firing rockets into Israel and...