Metro Weekly

News + Politics

  • On the Beat

    She may be the newly appointed supervisor of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department's Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU), but underneath it all, Sgt....

  • Bowing Out

    Craig A. Bowman, longtime executive director of the National Youth Advocacy Coalition, a not-for-profit GLBT organization, announced his resignation from the position on Thursday, April...

  • Cheers and Tears for Hattoy

    In what may have been exactly the sort of politically star-studded event the recently deceased Bob Hattoy would have appreciated -- and, some would argue,...

  • Honor Roll

    Lieutenant Alberto Jova, and several other representatives from the Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU) of the Metropolitan Police Department were all present to accept...

  • Leadership changes

    Tasha Hill was already on her way to Washington from Colorado before accepting a position as the new executive director of the Sexual Minority Youth...

  • Murderer sentenced to 26 years

    There was no seat to be found on Friday morning in Courtroom 111 at the D.C. Superior Court, as Preston Randolph Logan awaited his sentence...

  • Strike Two

    The ongoing saga that began roughly a year ago with the closing of D.C.'s gay nude-dancing -- and drinking -- venues in order to transform...

  • Combating Hate Crimes

    On March 14, 2007, a 25-year-old gay man named Ryan Keith Skipper was murdered in Polk County, Fla. He was stabbed 20 times in what...

  • Correction

    In the April 12 issue of Metro Weekly, District II Board of Education candidate Sekou Biddle was reported to have secured the Gertrude Stein Democratic...

  • Revising Treatments

    From ''super strains'' of HIV, to exotic and resistant forms of chlamydia, news of sexually related bugs, germs and microbes is certain to prick up...

  • Buying Time

    It's been two months since Preston Randolph Logan pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, but it will be at least one more week before he receives...

  • A Family Affair

    ''Men have seeds, and women have eggs... and if two women fall in love and want to have a baby together, they need a seed.''...

  • Acknowledging Accomplishment

    Washington is a city bursting at the seams with history, though gay history doesn't often come to mind. New York trumps other locales with the...

  • Local Briefs

    Gay Men's Chorus appoints new E.D. Robert Johnson has been playing the piano since he was 9 years old. Now 31, Johnson, a member and...

  • Gays Groups Evaluate May 1 Candidates

    Ahead of the May 1 special election for D.C. City Council seats from Wards 4 and 7, as well as a Board of Education seat...