Metro Weekly

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  • Trouble in Texas

    By on October 12, 2005

    Hardly anyone seems aware of it, but on Nov. 8, Texans will vote on an unusually far-ranging state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and anything...

  • AIDS Walk 2005

    By on October 12, 2005

    Banner year? The Oct. 1 AIDS Walk (Photo by Todd Franson ) Though not quite on par with last year's figures, as yet, Kim Mills,...

  • Budgets and Buildings

    By on October 12, 2005

    On Thursday evening, Oct. 6, The Center: Home for GLBT in Metro D.C. opened its doors and its accounting books -- to a degree --...

  • Setting the Course

    By on September 28, 2005

    The Wednesday opening reception aside, when attendees of the National Black Justice Coalition's first Black LGBT Leaders Summit sat down to business early Thursday morning,...

  • A Sigh of Relief

    By on September 28, 2005

    How did John Roberts do at his hearing to be the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? Before the hearing, I laid out five...

  • White Wedding

    By on September 28, 2005

    Around the time your late twenties begin to take shape on the horizon, everyone who's passed that benchmark will tell you that you'll soon be...

  • Walking for Whitman-Walker

    By on September 28, 2005

    Under what are predicted to be sunny skies, Whitman-Walker Clinic will hold its 19th annual AIDS Walk fundraiser Saturday, Oct. 1, kicking off from Freedom...

  • 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...