Metro Weekly

News + Politics

  • Perking Me Up

    By on April 12, 2006

    Our relationship began in the early '90s, when I was still living in Des Moines and she was in New York City. I'd never been...

  • D.C. Coalition Coalescing

    By on April 12, 2006

    About 50 people joined the D.C. Coalition at a reception Sunday, April 9, introducing the community to the group's new board members, elected last month....

  • The Kids Are Not Alright

    By on April 12, 2006

    There was a full house of about 150 people in the Human Rights Campaign's Equality Forum space April 5. It was a ''who's who'' of...

  • Ball Games

    By on April 5, 2006

    As a kid, I threw like a girl. Or, I would have, if the girls on my little league team hadn't thrown better than I...

  • Lizard Lounge's Last Act

    By on April 5, 2006

    The Lizard will shortly no longer be a king on the Sunday night scene. After almost eight years the weekly Lizard Lounge party will close,...

  • Lizard Lounge club announces closing night

    By on April 2, 2006

    This article has a newer version. Read the latest update

  • Upping the Ante

    By on March 29, 2006

    I was in Spanish class when the note came. It was a small piece of memo pad paper with an office staffer's handwriting on it....

  • Log Cabin's Councillor

    By on March 29, 2006

    In the middle of March, new members were sworn-in for the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA). Considering the epidemic's disproportionate infection rate in the...

  • Let Catholics Discriminate

    By on March 29, 2006

    As laws protecting gay Americans from discrimination proliferate, they increasingly conflict with important liberties. The latest example of this clash comes from Massachusetts, where the...

  • Sudden Departure

    By on March 22, 2006

    Whenever my phone rings and I see my parents' number in the little window, my first thought is always that my grandmother died. She's very...

  • Anniversary Gift

    By on March 22, 2006

    The Center, ''home for GLBT in metro D.C.,'' was counting its blessings Tuesday, March 14, in the company of about 40 well-wishers. The rough count,...

  • Last Dance

    By on March 22, 2006

    The party at VelvetNation is coming to an end, promoters announced Wednesday, March 22. The biggest ongoing, weekly gay bash in D.C. will be going...

  • FAIR's Fair?

    By on March 15, 2006

    Much of the reaction to the Supreme Court's 8-0 decision in Rumsfeld v. FAIR to uphold the Solomon Amendment has been ill-informed. Commentators, especially in...

  • PSA tackles ''PNP''

    By on March 15, 2006

    Crystal methamphetamine has plagued the local gay community, with addiction to the drug growing steadily during the past five years, according to public health officials....

  • Healthy Dialogue

    By on March 15, 2006

    As part of National LGBT Health Awareness Week, Whitman-Walker Clinic on Tuesday night presented a public forum on gay health. ''It's a little smaller crowd...