Metro Weekly

News + Politics

  • Innocent Ads?

    By on February 23, 2005

    In modern politics, words and phrases that were once innocuous now seem packed with explosives. Red, blue, family, adoption, conservative, religious, faith, partner -- they've...

  • Home Sweet Home

    By on February 23, 2005

    At first glance, it's simply another downtown office space: Corridors and cubicles and file cabinets delineating where work takes place. But then you notice some...

  • Condom-Free Porn

    By on February 16, 2005

    I have this porno flick that was made in 1983. I'm not going to tell you the title. Let's just say it's 55 minutes of...

  • HIV and LGV in MSM

    By on February 16, 2005

    With St. Valentine's Day, February is the month best associated with romantic love. Within the MSM (men who have sex with men) community, however, the...

  • Celebrities Shine for PFLAG

    By on February 16, 2005

    The stars have come out in D.C. and New York, this time to lend their support to a new Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians...

  • Pluck Off

    By on February 9, 2005

    I don't know what came over me the night, somewhere in the throes of adolescence, that I let my friends put make-up on me. I...

  • Conferring for Campus Equality

    By on February 9, 2005

    Elizabeth City State University is about as ''small town'' as you can get. It's roughly 45 miles south of Portsmouth, Va., just over the North...

  • BHT Holds 27th Reception

    By on February 2, 2005

    Roughly 100 people gathered Saturday afternoon, Jan. 29, at Titan, for Brother, Help Thyself's annual grants reception. In all, the all-volunteer, Washington-Baltimore organization awarded $91,655...

  • Old Pipes

    By on February 2, 2005

    Though she's being nice about it, our downstairs lesbian neighbor has informed us through a series of handwritten notes Scotch-taped to our door that our...

  • Identity Krises

    By on January 26, 2005

    Until my senior year in college, I was half the person I am today. I don't mean that this was the point at which I...

  • Absent Recognition

    By on January 26, 2005

    This past year was groundbreaking for gays in black journalism. From black churches supporting or opposing gay marriage to the alarming rise in HIV infection...

  • Military Backup

    By on January 19, 2005

    For the past year, the Arlington, Va.-based Military Community Services Network has been trying to fill a niche. Today's military may have a commitment to...

  • Fantasy Island

    By on January 12, 2005

    My mother's main goal in life is to be warmer. At any given moment, she's devoting a significant portion of mental resources to figuring out...

  • Busted!

    By on January 5, 2005

    Among the more scintillating New Year's resolutions I heard this year was one friend's declaration that 2005 is the year of cleavage. While I don't...

  • Barriers to Health

    By on January 5, 2005

    Ironically, a few weeks after Melissa Etheridge's breast cancer diagnosis helped put ''a lesbian face'' on cancer, the same-sex marriage backlash as witnessed in the...