Metro Weekly

News + Politics

  • Politically Correct

    By on November 12, 2003

    In my little nuclear-free suburb last week, the voting members of my ward joined together to elect a lesbian to represent us on the Takoma...

  • Changeover

    By on November 5, 2003

    Massachusetts State Senator Cheryl Jacques will become the next president and executive director of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the organization announced on Monday, following...

  • Beautiful Day

    By on October 29, 2003

    ‘Tis the season of gay tourism. I don't mean my friends and I hopping on that Olivia Cruise to Lesbos. I mean other folks, gay...

  • Grave Lessons

    By on October 15, 2003

    I spent my 40th birthday talking to a lesbian ghost. More specifically, I made a pilgrimage to the tomb of famous lesbian author Radclyffe Hall,...

  • Building Blocks

    By on October 15, 2003

    The new HRC headquarters building at 17th Street and Rhode Island Avenue NW. (Photo by Michael Wichita) Blue and yellow confetti filled the air at...

  • 'Atta Girl!

    By on October 8, 2003

    There was a girl in my neighborhood growing up who was as sporty as any boy on the block. She wore baseball caps every day,...

  • Bearing False Witness

    By on October 1, 2003

    It's Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, and loved ones have pampered me with gifts of sweet things (for a sweet year). The jumbo bag...

  • Reality Bites

    By on September 24, 2003

    When I was a little kid, I used to watch a show called Romper Room and hoped each day with all my might that Miss...

  • Everyday Terror

    By on September 17, 2003

    On the second anniversary of the September 11th attacks I thought about the kinds of ''domestic'' terrorism that America has chosen to ignore for so...

  • Professing Love

    By on September 10, 2003

    Once every few months, or so it seemed, I would find myself in my college adviser's office, telling him how, really, it would make so...

  • RAVE On

    By on September 10, 2003

    Photographs by Todd Franson ''Power to the People Who Party!'' was the battle cry on Saturday at Upper Senate Park as approximately 2,000 people gathered...

  • Hope Springs Eternal

    By on September 3, 2003

    I just returned from two glorious weeks working at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. Nearly 4,000 festie-goers and workers enjoyed sunshine, the red glow of...

  • Comic Sutra

    By on September 3, 2003

    In the sixties he was a mad scientist. In the eighties he was an evil businessman. Today he is the President of the United States....

  • For the Record

    By on August 20, 2003

    The battle over same-sex marriage in the courts -- public courts, religious courts, the court of public opinion -- recently led me into a long...

  • Girl Meets Whirl

    By on August 13, 2003

    This new wave of television programming designed to challenge and confuse our notions of what is straight and what is gay has me, well, challenged...