Metro Weekly

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  • Jody's Family Affair

    This is a poignant time of year for Jody M. Huckaby, who in March marked three years as the executive director of Parents, Families &...

  • Tattered Vestments

    Santa Maria Maggiore is unique among the Patriarchal Basilicas of Rome in that it retains its original structure, though it has been enhanced over the...

  • Civics Lesson

    What's your trick for getting out of jury duty? I'd be very surprised if you don't have at least one simple method to suggest. Last...

  • Montgomery County's Trans Ally

    The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and residents of Montgomery County have joined forces with Equality Maryland, the state's GLBT equal-rights advocacy group, in...

  • Meth Movie

    Tweakers, a movie born of collaboration by two members of the West Hollywood Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board, Jimmy Palmieri and Sue Sexton, hoping to...

  • Post Power

    Even though the Power of Us National Convention attracted fewer patrons than organizers of the event had originally hoped for during its three-day run, April...

  • NOVAM'S IMAGINE-ation

    Dancing, cocktails, dessert, live entertainment, auctions are all expected at IMAGINE, the Northern Virginia AIDS Ministry's (NOVAM) signature annual fundraiser, this weekend. Last year, the...

  • To the Max

    Twenty years have passed since Max Robinson, the nation's first African-American network news anchor, died from AIDS-related complications at Howard University Hospital. Sixteen years have...

  • Fitting Tribute

    It was the early 1960s and Victor Shargai was more than reluctant to leave New York City for Washington. His love of theater kept him...

  • Fundamentalist Biology for Dummies

    “If each gay couple took a vow of fidelity and kept it sacred, they would soon realize what anyone with a basic 10th grade sexual...

  • Chelsea Clinton, life of the party

    “hank you, but that’s not why you should vote for my mom.” — Chelsea Clinton to a group of gay men outside a Philadelphia gay...

  • Flying the friendly skies

    “You wouldn’t know what to do with a woman anyway.” — An alleged comment by Lucy Chilton, 42, to fellow Heathrow airport security guard Allwyn...

  • The “bitter gay divorcee” finds a safety net

    “And my divorce meant I was inducted into yet another circle of (mostly) sisterhood: women left because we married doctors before they finished their residencies....

  • The strange world between Tori Spelling’s ears

    “I’m a huge fan of gays…. They love me; I love them. They consider me kind of a gay icon, which they’ve labeled me as.”...

  • It’s a novel concept in the family law area

    “We all know people who have gone through divorces. At the end of that long and unhappy period, they have been able to breathe a...