Metro Weekly

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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Calling All Kings — and Queens

    Brother Help Thyself -- the local alliance of leather, Levi, drag, bear and fetish communities, that for nearly 30 years has been helping gay-related charities...

  • A New Honor

    The Center-Home for GLBT in Metro D.C. has announced it will be holding its annual fall fundraiser Sept. 19 to honor the five co-founders of...

  • Under One Roof

    Nearly 150 gay and gay-friendly exhibitors will be on display on Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Washington Convention Center for the third annual Gay Life...

  • A Pioneer Passes

    Just a year after the closing of the nightclub Ziegfeld's, one of the founders of the famed club has died. Christian Jansen III, known to...