Metro Weekly

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  • Trans Regs Advance

    By on May 17, 2006

    The D.C. Commission on Human Rights, the city's Office of Human Rights entity with authority over private sector human-rights complaints, took a step May 11...

  • Honored Quartet

    By on May 17, 2006

    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...

  • Rough and Tumble

    By on May 10, 2006

    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

    By on May 10, 2006

    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

    By on May 10, 2006

    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...

  • Where's the wedding?

    By on May 10, 2006

    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...

  • Be Bar scores a victory

    By on May 3, 2006

    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

    By on May 3, 2006

    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...

  • Borderline Crazy

    By on May 3, 2006

    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...

  • Traditional Values

    By on April 26, 2006

    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

    By on April 26, 2006

    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

    By on April 26, 2006

    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

    By on April 20, 2006

    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

    By on April 19, 2006

    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

    By on April 19, 2006

    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...