Metro Weekly

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  • Crystal Campaign Hits Bars

    By on December 7, 2005

    The Center, D.C.'s GLBT community center, is furthering its campaign against crystal methamphetamine abuse within the local gay community by taking the fight to nightlife...

  • Vacancy Filled

    By on December 7, 2005

    In September 2004, when D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams announced the creation of the Mayor's Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Affairs, he said, ''I'm...

  • Eagle Honors

    By on November 30, 2005

    Mr. D.C. Eagle 2005, Scott Jones, came to the end of his title run Saturday, Nov. 19. That evening, judges selected Bennett Long to succeed...

  • Applauding Allen

    By on November 30, 2005

    It may have been six months in the making, but the Greater Washington, D.C., STD Community Coalition finally got the chance to honor D.C. Allen...

  • Open House

    By on November 16, 2005

    I'd rather hang out at anyone's apartment than a bar. There's a bar called Tribe on the corner of our block that's filled with the...

  • Deciphering Syphilis

    By on November 16, 2005

    Syphilis infection rates are apparently on the rise in the U.S. On Nov. 8, the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the...

  • Eminent Eviction

    By on November 2, 2005

    The District government exercised its eminent domain powers Oct. 25, filing a legal claim to properties in the area of the proposed Southeast baseball stadium...

  • Sense in Advertising

    By on October 26, 2005

    If we do better than expected when Texans vote on an anti-gay marriage amendment on Nov. 8, much credit should go to the National Gay...

  • The Cute One

    By on October 26, 2005

    It has been years since I've answered an ad in the Women Seeking Women section of anything. It's been years since I've needed to; my...

  • Dawson's Discount

    By on October 26, 2005

    The phrase ''Charity begins at home'' is open to some interpretation. Local musician Sharon Dawson is living one possible interpretation, with her newly-released discount card...

  • Bob Siegel Responds to D.C. Land Grab

    By on October 25, 2005

    The District government exercised its eminent domain powers Oct. 25, filing a legal claim to properties in the area of the proposed Southeast baseball stadium...

  • Same time next week?

    By on October 19, 2005

    One of my therapist's favorite solutions to my perennial problem of feeling stressed out is to find ways for me to do more work. ''You'd...

  • Marching On

    By on October 14, 2005

    Boykin The Rev. Willie Wilson, the national executive director of the Millions More Movement (MMM) who made headlines this summer for homophobic comments during a...

  • 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 --...

  • 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...