Metro Weekly

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  • Problem Solver

    By on April 16, 2008

    Brian Watson likes to fix things. But a decade before making Washington his home and establishing himself as one of the city's most prominent young...

  • The Anti-Socialite

    By on April 16, 2008

    You know that friend you have that you can call up at a moment's notice with an offer to catch a movie, and be guaranteed...

  • Hit List

    By on April 16, 2008

    Arriving at the recent town-hall meeting regarding same-sex, intimate-partner violence called by the new Rainbow Response coalition, I was a little worn. I'd already spent...

  • Accomplishments and Challenges

    By on April 16, 2008

    Looking back on Maryland's 2008 legislative session, which concluded on Monday, April 7, Equality Maryland saw reason to celebrate -- as well as reason to...

  • Top of the Center

    By on April 16, 2008

    The board of directors at the D.C. Center, Home for GLBT in Metro D.C., appointed David Mariner, local self-proclaimed ''consultant, advocate, and activist,'' as its...

  • Talking race and orientation

    By on April 16, 2008

    The local chapter of Parents, Families, & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) kicks off a discussion series, Brothers and Sisters Under the Rainbow, at...

  • Picking Favorites

    By on April 16, 2008

    An annual poll asking Shaw residents to pick their favorite new business puts Nellie's Sports Bar, located at 900 U St. NW, in the No....

  • Coming Unglued

    By on April 9, 2008

    Walking along U Street Northwest on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination, there is little sign that the neighborhood was on fire forty years...

  • A Church's Special Guest

    By on April 9, 2008

    Reverend Fernando Frontan, a Protestant pastor credited as being the first openly gay activist in Uruguay, is currently leading several workshops and gatherings, on global...

  • Preparing for the Pope

    By on April 9, 2008

    A small group of prominent gay Catholics is holding a press conference, ''A Few Minutes with the Pope,'' Thursday, April 10 from 9 to 11...

  • Protecting Peers

    By on April 9, 2008

    About 80 members of the metro D.C. GLBT community and allies gathered Tuesday night to continue strategizing against one of the community's stealthier enemies: same-sex,...

  • The Return of Ziegfeld's

    By on April 9, 2008

    Once a famous facet of the D.C. gay bar scene, all-male strip clubs faded into history when a new baseball stadium displaced the few remaining...

  • Life is a mystery

    By on April 8, 2008

    “I think ‘Queer Nation’ and ‘Diva’ just go together. The diva in them recognized the diva in me.”  –Madonna on what it’s like to be one...

  • State of the World

    By on April 2, 2008

    On March 11, the State Department released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007. A compilation of the LGBT- and HIV/AIDS-related portions is...

  • Fueling Oppression

    By on April 2, 2008

    A few weeks ago, I was going to take up the call of American energy independence from a gay perspective. Some online research immediately pointed...