Metro Weekly

News + Politics

  • Home Work

    April was a banner month for Latin@s en Accion -- literally. The local group, championing the metro area's GLBT Latino community, joined the National March...

  • Worth Fighting For

    As the Capital Pride parade turns the corner of R Street and 17th, my friends and I stand on our chairs on the patio of...

  • Stein Dems Back Cropp

    City Council chairman and D.C. mayoral hopeful Linda Cropp got two boosts from the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, a GLBT group, Monday night, June 12....

  • Truth or Consequences

    Within the gay community, years of so-called ''ex-gays'' falling off the wagon, assessments by the American Psychiatric Association, and plain commonsense have relegated the whole...

  • Suspension on Stead

    Contemporary economics means the death of a terrorist in the wilds of Iraq may translate to a dip in gas prices around the world. Or...

  • An Advertising Impasse

    An African-American newspaper in Baltimore still won't run a controversial ad depicting anti-gay religious protestors, but the paper's representatives say the concern is about the...

  • Taking Pride

    The arrival of June means just one thing: Pride season is once again upon us. Washington, D.C., is currently celebrating a week of events as...

  • Alternate History

    Washington, D.C., July 4 -- President Bush will announce today that he has decided to retract his support for a federal constitutional amendment banning gay...

  • Community Connectors

    A week's worth of Capital Pride events may be synonymous with outward expressions of celebration. The week began, however, with a chance to pause for...

  • Making a Splash

    The D.C. Strokes seems the very embodiment of the ''work hard, play hard'' ethos. It's Friday night at Titan, and a few topless, chiseled, Lycra-panted...

  • Refusing to Run

    Since its founding in 2004, the National Black Justice Coalition, the national organization dedicated exclusively to advocating on behalf of the African-American GLBT community, has...

  • AIDS at 25

    ''I was sitting in my office at NIH reading the article on five gay men in Los Angeles who presented with pneumocystis pneumonia, and felt...

  • Life After Meth

    When five o'clock arrived on Friday afternoon, my 64-hour vacation began. First priority: to hit the Internet for a hot guy to host. Perhaps 12...

  • Fighting Back

    It's possible, perhaps even likely, that when he walked into the room, Wayne was as surprised to see me as I was upon seeing him....

  • Taking the Lead

    While I appreciate Will O'Bryan covering the GLBT Mayoral Forum I would have appreciated even more if he was clear about the...