Metro Weekly

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  • Filling the Vaccine Vacancy

    September ended with some discouraging news in the effort to make a vaccine against HIV. Pharmaceutical giant Merck announced it was halting its large-scale clinical...

  • Dr. Discrimination

    While presenting her testimony to the Montgomery County Council Tuesday, Oct. 2, against the passage of a bill that would protect transgender people by adding...

  • Celebrating Growth

    True to its title, the Mautner Project's annual gala dinner and auction is all about ''Love, Strength and Hope.'' ''It's really a time for us...

  • Call to Arms

    It was a different Army when Aubrey Sarvis served for just over three years in the mid-Sixties, a portion of that time in Vietnam. And...

  • Mean Streets

    It's been three years since the brutal shooting death of Adrian Alstad, the popular gay waiter at Annie's Paramount Steakhouse, and the string of violent...

  • Suddenly Susan

    ''Largo'' used to conjure images of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, or lodge Bertie Higgins' ''Key Largo'' lyrics in your head. Today, Largo is more...

  • Workplace Warriors

    For the first time in its 17-year history, the country's premier conference dealing with issues of workplace equality and GLBT employees is making its way...

  • Boykin's Election Trail

    Boykin Keith Boykin, one of the leading national figures in the gay-rights movement, particularly as the movement intersects the African-American community, will be in Washington...

  • Virginia Vetting

    Four equal-rights groups in Virginia have joined forces to host two discussion forums for State Senate and House candidates running for office in Fairfax County...

  • Transgender Assault

    Shortly after 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13, a group of young men attacked a transgender woman, throwing her through a window, according to a...

  • Police Back PFOX

    An alleged late-August scuffle between an unnamed member of Parents and Friends of Ex-gays & Gays (PFOX) and an unnamed attendee of an Arlington fair...

  • PFAW's Gay Ambassador

    It's time for yet another Washington gala, replete with awards, entertainment and pricey tickets. And with Tim Gill, the gay founder of the Quark software...

  • Inside Outing

    Mike Rogers of blogActive.com has been riding high since he was proved right in his charges that anti-gay Idaho Sen. Larry Craig (R) was seeking...

  • Marriage Blow to Maryland

    Mere hours after the Maryland Court of Appeals announced its decision Tuesday to uphold a 1973 state law defining marriage as a union between a...

  • Permanent Position

    Mayor Adrian Fenty's (D) office announced Sept. 7 that Christopher Dyer, who has served as interim director of the Mayor's Office of GLBT Affairs since...