Metro Weekly

News + Politics

  • Baking for Beneficiaries

    The Scarlet Foundation Inc., organizer of Scarlet's 37th Annual Bake Sale and Auction, is using this year's event to honor Cornelius ''Neil'' R. Alexander Jr.,...

  • Clarification

    In Feel the Heat (Domestic Partner, 1/31/08), jetBlue Airways was credited with being the first U.S. airline to include anti-discrimination protection for gender identity when...

  • Writing on the Wall

    Although the Metropolitan Police Department would not release information regarding what authorities described as ''homophobic graffiti'' found inside a restroom at the Fifth District Police...

  • Calling on Annapolis

    When thinking about Equality Maryland's upcoming Lobby Day in Annapolis on Monday, Feb. 11, Dan Furmansky, the equal-rights organization's executive director, can't help but quote...

  • Lobby Day 101

    Sitting calmly in the office of a man who voted against your civil rights, by supporting the successfully passed marriage amendment that prohibits same-sex marriage...

  • Slinging Porn

    D.C. made headlines recently with one of those stories that people like to use to mock the inefficiencies of government. On Jan. 23, the city...

  • Now Open

    The Concerned DC Providers Coalition, a group committed to improving the health of ''young transgender women of color and men of color who have sex...

  • Assault at HRC Store

    Sgt. Brett Parson, head of the Washington Metropolitan Police Department's special liaison units, including the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU), and the Human Rights...

  • Grant Givers

    Brother Help Thyself, a community-based organizations that helps other non-profit organizations serving the GLBT and HIV/AIDS communities in Baltimore and D.C., gave away more than...

  • Tragedy in Woodbridge

    Darius Cooke no longer sleeps in the bed he once shared with Keith Jamar Truesdale, his partner of nearly two years. Until he moves out...

  • Church Lady

    When Rev. Christine Wiley took her turn to speak at a recent HIV/AIDS town-hall meeting called to address the alarming data recently cited in a...

  • Last Word

    ''You would need a magnifying glass to see any real or substantive differences between the three candidates.'' -- Alan Van Capelle, executive director of the...

  • Living Single

    I am, at heart, an introvert. It's not that I don't have friends (I have a few) or don't like people (some of you are...

  • Going for Barack

    ''We are one people.'' It is easy to say, but we have struggled over it for 232 years. The charismatic speaker, who once wrestled with...

  • Damien Ministries' Nickel Dies

    Rev. James R. Nickel, executive director of Damien Ministries, the HIV/AIDS organization inspired by the Catholic Church and located in Northeast, had beaten renal cancer...