Metro Weekly

News + Politics

  • SMYAL's Weiss announces resignation

    A major staff change is in the works at the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL), where executive director Bruce Weiss announced his resignation on...

  • Balking at the Deal

    As the Rehoboth Beach high season began Memorial Day Weekend, it coincided with the trigger of an ongoing story with enough twists and turns to...

  • Dog Days

    I live in a child-free zone. Our 105-year-old former tenement building holds 20 apartments, all of them a tight fit even for just a couple...

  • Anderson vs. Iran

    On July 19, 2005, two teenage boys were hanged by Iranian authorities, convicted, according to some reports, of raping a 13 year-old-boy. Doug Ireland, a...

  • Victorious Defeat

    The defeat of the federal marriage amendment in the Senate in early June was welcome, if entirely expected. It was a nice surprise to see...

  • Lawn Overdue

    Two of the more ominous communications my partner Kim and I received when we became homeowners in 1998 involved the abundant flora surrounding our abode....

  • Schism Schematic

    After last week's General Convention of The Episcopal Church, held in Columbus, Ohio, gay attendees and their allies were taking a while to absorb its...

  • Be Bar Moves Ahead

    By the time the June 26 Alcoholic Beverage Control Board meeting rolled around, the status of the proposed, gay-owned Be Bar lounge at 1318 Ninth...

  • Honored Guest

    In 2000, the International Lesbian and Gay Association held a Europe-wide conference on GLBT equality in Bucharest, Romania, intentionally challenging homophobia in that country. The...

  • 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...

  • Bottoms Up!

    We returned from Mexico filthy, surly and generally repellent. In the grim basement of Kennedy Airport, the agent surveyed our customs declarations and eyeballed us...

  • 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...