Metro Weekly

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  • Murder suspect pleads guilty

    During an emotional hearing in Courtroom 111 of D.C.'s Superior Court on Thursday, Feb. 8, Preston Randolph Logan, 43, pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder...

  • Troubling Times

    Why Rachel Crites and Rachel Smith committed suicide may never be known. When the two Montgomery County teens disappeared in early February, becoming a major...

  • Maryland Lobby Day

    At first glance, there may seem to be a romantic subtext to scheduling the annual Equality Maryland Lobby Day -- for the past several years...

  • Gays Win Some, Lose Some in Virginia Legislature

    A bill that ensures hospital-visitation rights for same-gender couples in Virginia has passed the House of Delegates by a unanimous vote, and will be voted...

  • Speaking of Gay

    The 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation was an exciting step for the American GLBT community. In a...

  • Local News Briefs

    New Law Proposed for Youth in Clubs D.C. Councilmember Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) has proposed legislation that would require all establishments in Washington that serve...

  • Nipper Sets Departure Date

    It's official: Darlene Nipper is stepping down as director of Mayor Fenty's Office of LGBT Affairs. Beyond that, the details get a bit muddy. While...

  • D.C. AIDS Agency Realigns, Sets Goals

    Since naming himself interim director of the city's HIV/AIDS Administration (HAA) in January, D.C. Department of Health Director of Dr. Gregg Pane has taken a...

  • Just Friends

    I don't know how anyone has the constitution for a breakup. The average person weathers even life's most routine daily predicaments with great difficulty, and...

  • Local News Briefs

    Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Eight out of every 10 people living with AIDS in Washington are African-American. That includes Robert Cobb, a 54-year-old gay client...

  • Community Growth

    Gigi Thomas is on call 24 hours a day. The transgender client advocate and hotline supervisor for Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive (HIPS), in Adams Morgan,...

  • Drinking and Entering

    Last summer, Washington's gay nightlife community bid farewell to a handful of gay bars and clubs in Southeast, including VelvetNation, to make way for the...

  • CTA gives to SMYAL

    The Capital Tennis Association (CTA), a local not-for-profit organization that coordinates and promotes tennis in the gay community, recently donated $15,275 to the Sexual Minority...

  • License for Ladies

    As the redevelopment juggernaut of the Southeast waterfront steams ahead, fueled by the Washington Nationals baseball stadium construction, the fates of shuttered adult businesses catering...

  • Growing Concerns on 14th Street

    Even though it was 11 p.m. on a Tuesday night, Sak Pollert didn't think much of the two men who were following him as he...