Metro Weekly

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  • Old Dominion to Get a Mister

    Yes, Virginia, you do have a leather contest. The inaugural Mr. Old Dominion Leather contest, a ''feeder'' event for January's Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather (MAL) competition...

  • HRC vs. MAM

    So many parties, so little time. It's a view easily taken by revelers this fall as two mainstays of the gay social calendar -- the...

  • Sidewalk Stories

    Trio restaurant is a venerable Dupont Circle institution, in some ways, perhaps, even more important to the neighborhood than the namesake fountain. From its corner...

  • Primary Pains

    To paraphrase a line from the classic Star Trek episode, ''The Trouble with Tribbles,'' one little robocall is not dangerous! Unfortunately, of course, we were...

  • Back on the Saddle

    At first I thought it was old-fashioned joking around: I agreed that next July, I would ride a bicycle across the state of Iowa --...

  • Youthful Magic Moments

    My family looks great when we're young. I mean, we look good older, too -- my mom, nearing 60, routinely gets mistaken for 10 years...

  • Rove's Family History

    Did political mastermind Karl Rove -- who as President Bush's top political aide helped craft campaign strategies using same-sex marriage as a homophobic political weapon...

  • Queer Campuses

    Billing itself as ''the first and only guide for LGBT students and their families on finding the right college,'' Alyson Books last month released The...

  • A Moral Movement

    This past Valentine's Day, I had dinner with someone I had been seeing for a little more than two weeks. For a young man, my...

  • Gay Dems Honor Own

    The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the city's primary organization for GLBT Democrats, has chosen four recipients for its 30th Anniversary Leadership Awards. Eric Stern, former...

  • Broncs, Boots and Beats

    In these parts, the start of the Atlantic hurricane season means more than flash flooding and power outages. It means it's time for another Atlantic...

  • Historic Record

    Franklin Kameny was, as they say, a pioneer of the early days of the modern gay civil rights movement. Before even the 1969 Stonewall riot...

  • Richmond in the Pink

    With a vote on a gay marriage amendment looming, and other GLBT issues remaining at the fore of Virginia politics, The Pink Party this Labor...

  • Sister Schism

    Since 1976, women have been gathering in the wilds of Michigan, creating a space that, say attendees and organizers, is at once political, liberating, nurturing,...

  • Alternative Lifestyle

    One of my earliest lessons about homeownership in Takoma Park -- a certified Hippie Town -- was that gas-powered lawn mowers are, like, so uncool....