Metro Weekly

News + Politics

  • Honored Quartet

    For 25 years, the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C. (GMCW) has been fulfilling a mission ''to entertain through excellent musical performance, to affirm the...

  • Where's the wedding?

    The Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, which opposes gay marriage, has just issued a new report finding that relatively few gay couples are getting...

  • Rough and Tumble

    The tumbleweed, it turned out, was a harbinger. I was a passenger in a car traveling down a small highway in Idaho and the tumbleweed...

  • Task Force Titans

    From enthusiastic political polemics to impassioned calls for GLBT activism to make its home both in the city and on the range, the stage at...

  • Pink Politicking

    Five of the district's front-running Democratic mayoral hopefuls entered the rainbow arena Monday night for a political forum that included some verbal fireworks, a literal...

  • Borderline Crazy

    I remember watching that Richard Linklater movie, Slacker, in 1991 and thinking to myself, ''These people are pathetic.'' I was 13 and had no concept...

  • Be Bar scores a victory

    The seven members of the district's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board voted unanimously Wednesday afternoon, May 3, to seat only ANC 2F as a protestant of...

  • Pulse of the People

    Ranging from alarm to hope, a panel of D.C.'s black gay leaders strove to outline what they saw as the state of their community as...

  • Traditional Values

    The headline of the lead story in last week's Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco's gay newspaper of record, said it all: ''Gay Families Join Easter...

  • A Bee in My Bonnet

    As far as I know, I am allergic to bees. When I was a child, wandering barefoot through the grassy expanses of my home state,...

  • GLAA Marks 35 Years

    When the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance celebrates a milestone, it's a bit like the tortoise making his victory lap to the hare's chagrin. Steadily,...

  • Youth Pride Festival Rescheduled Due to Weather

    Citing a weather forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for substantial rain Saturday, April 22, the Youth Pride Alliance board members have decided...

  • Gay Families on a Roll

    Though the rain slowed at times, it refused to go away, making for a soggy time at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. But...

  • Gays in Eurabia

    Four years after the assassination of gay Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, his warning of the threat posed to the rights of European gays and women...

  • Growth Spurt

    Marking its 10th year, the stage is set for Youth Pride Day in Rock Creek Park at the corner of P and 23rd streets NW...