Metro Weekly

News + Politics

  • Aging with Optimism

    By on September 28, 2005

    Aging has long been a frightening topic in the gay community, where youth often seems synonymous with happiness -- particularly so among the males. But...

  • Lesbian Stereo-hyping

    By on September 21, 2005

    There are few moments in a lesbian's life with more texture, few occasions more richly rewarding, than the experience of sitting with a couple of...

  • Arnold's Legacy

    By on September 14, 2005

    There's no putting lipstick on this pig. Unless he changes his mind, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will become the first executive anywhere in the world...

  • On the Job

    By on September 14, 2005

    Martha Stewart's own version of The Apprentice begins next week, and I am on the edge of my seat. Will she throw chairs? Spit fire?...

  • Rainbow Relief

    By on September 14, 2005

    Hurricane Katrina has bombarded Americans with non-stop scenes of devastation. More than two weeks after this gargantuan tempest slammed into the Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi...

  • Port in a Storm

    By on September 7, 2005

    News this week that the California Assembly passed a bill allowing same-sex marriage in that state was cause for excitement, without a doubt. The measure...

  • Bad-Ass Lesbians

    By on August 24, 2005

    I knew when I boarded the Metro and saw them that the two women sitting near me, dressed in a fashion that is way more...

  • Why Iran Matters

    By on August 24, 2005

    A friend and I were recently shooting the breeze over a pot of coffee when he asked me a question that stopped me in my...

  • Gathering Steam

    By on August 24, 2005

    The local, monthly community meetings to discuss GLBT participation in the Millions More Movement (MMM) are quickly gaining steam. The seventh monthly meeting, initiated in...

  • Proud Moments

    By on August 17, 2005

    Every June for the last 30 years, the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area has celebrated pride with energy and enthusiasm. Whether it was a few hundred...

  • Crossed Tracks

    By on August 17, 2005

    While recently speaking to someone who lives in D.C., I was told that Columbia Heights, the neighborhood in which I lived for many years, is...

  • Five Alive

    By on August 17, 2005

    Under the noonday sun Monday, a group of local religious leaders offered another ray of light. Downtown, on the steps of the Metropolitan African Methodist...

  • The Eagle Keeps Its Nest, For Now

    By on August 10, 2005

    With the building of one convention center and the demolition of another, not to mention the continuing rise of commercial real-estate values in the revitalized...

  • Heavy Duty

    By on August 10, 2005

    I knew there was trouble when she told me to have a seat in her office and shut the door behind me. We never talk...

  • Fun in the Sun

    By on August 3, 2005

    It was 98 degrees in New York today, one of the hottest days we've had all year. Several businesses have been distributing donated bottled water...