Metro Weekly

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  • Granting Entry

    By on June 6, 2007

    Brother Help Thyself (BHT) announced on June 2 that it has begun taking applications for grants from organizations that serve the GLBT and HIV/AIDS communities...

  • Death in the Family

    By on June 6, 2007

    Richard Rausch will be noticeably missing at this year's Capital Pride festival. In previous years, Rausch, a founding member of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club...

  • Gay in Court

    By on May 30, 2007

    Attorneys from GAYLAW, a local organization of GLBT attorneys, made a bit of history Tuesday morning, as they were sworn-in to the Bar of the...

  • Marching Forward

    By on May 30, 2007

    There's something appropriate about all the uncertainty that surrounds this year's Dyke March. Just a few weeks ago, local folk singer Mara Levi found out...

  • A Pride Trans-formation

    By on May 30, 2007

    With new protections for transgender people going into effect in October 2006, Washington has the distinction of leading the country in protecting the transgender community...

  • Save the Clubs

    By on May 23, 2007

    I do not spend much time in nude dancing clubs. I nonetheless defend them for several reasons: Because adults in an international city like Washington...

  • Row Your Boat

    By on May 23, 2007

    Out 2 Paddle, a gay rowing team sponsored by metropolitan Washington's Asian/Pacific-Islander Queers United for Action (AQUA), took the gold at the sixth annual Dragon...

  • Debate Heats Up

    By on May 23, 2007

    For those who could not make it to the May 16 town-hall meeting called by Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. (D-Ward 5), at Bethesda Baptist Church...

  • Power in numbers

    By on May 23, 2007

    About 100 people gathered at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Southwest Washington Thursday, May 17, for D.C. Fights Back's HIV/AIDS Speak Out. The goal: Start...

  • Judge Hits D.C. Fire & Emergency Medical Services Agency

    By on May 23, 2007

    More than a decade has passed since the since Tyra Hunter, a transgender D.C. woman, died. But correcting the transphobic and homophobic culture of the...

  • On the Red Carpet

    By on May 16, 2007

    One in Ten, the organization that has produced the Reel Affirmations film festival in Washington for the past 16 years, among other events, raised over...

  • Stein Dems Back Bill

    By on May 16, 2007

    The regular May meeting of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the primary voice of GLBT Democrats in the district, was billed as a chance to...

  • Safe Haven

    By on May 16, 2007

    At 22, Gramoz Prestreshi says he now has a reason to live. ''I'm in a safe country,'' he says, ''I can be just who I...

  • Tale of Two Mommies

    By on May 9, 2007

    Janet Jenkins has been fighting for visitation rights to her 5-year-old daughter, Isabella, for more than three years now. Throughout her ongoing custody battle with...

  • Crosscurrents in 2008

    By on May 9, 2007

    Gore Vidal once said that God is a convenient fiction. The same can be said of ''gay community.'' Despite the common tendency to generalize based...