Metro Weekly

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  • 'Raw' Deal

    Sometimes it's not the four-letter words that cause a commotion. Sometimes it only takes three: r-a-w. That's the word that rankled some local sensibilities when...

  • Countdown to Closure?

    If ever there was a difficult row to hoe, the displaced gay adult venues formerly of Southeast D.C. can claim it. Open barely a month,...

  • History in the Unmaking

    The good news is that nobody was hurt. The bad news for local lesbian activist Cheryl Spector and other members of metropolitan Washington's gay community...

  • Up in Flames

    A video archive documenting more than 21 years of Washington's GLBT community was destroyed on Wednesday, June 6, when the apartment complex it was stored...

  • Rowing Your Boats

    Continuing to grow the city's annual Stonewall Regatta, the local GLBT rowing club, D.C. Strokes, on June 2 offered the 14th regatta with 22 rowing...

  • Granting Entry

    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

    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...

  • Frank's Day

    To mark two occasions -- the District's 2007 Capital Pride week and the 50-year anniversary of Frank Kameny's entry into the public fight for gay...

  • Building Bridges

    ''Building a bridge to a brighter future'' was the theme as a panel of Washington-area GLBT leaders took the stage at Studio Theatre to discuss...

  • Relocation Reloaded

    Councilmember Jim Graham's (D-Ward 1) legislation to help nude-dancing, liquor-licensed venues displaced by they city's eminent-domain move to claim District land for a new baseball...

  • Marching Forward

    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

    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...

  • Gay in Court

    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...

  • Save the Clubs

    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

    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...