Metro Weekly

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  • Shaping the City

    By on April 23, 2003

    Past and Present: GLAA's Frank Kameny, left, andSgt. Brett Parsons of the policedepartment's Gay and LesbianLiaison Unit. (Photo by Michael Wichita) It takes a diversity...

  • Back to School

    By on April 16, 2003

    I recently came out to over one hundred kids at my old high school. I was invited to do so as the loyal and enthusiastic...

  • Squeeze Play

    By on April 16, 2003

    When Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) introduced his RAVE Act legislation last year, it was a slam dunk waiting to happen. Teenagers, drugs, freaky-looking ravers --...

  • Good Dog

    By on April 9, 2003

    When these words appear in print, the world as I know it will have become a bit bleaker. A veterinarian will have made a house...

  • Staph Evaluations

    By on April 9, 2003

    Expertise on call: Ward (Photo by Michael Wichita) These days, the media debuts new infectious diseases like they're Vin Diesel's latest release. Katie Couric on...

  • The Lingering Whiff of Anti-Semitism

    By on April 2, 2003

    The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum just concluded its powerful, four-month exhibit on Nazi persecution of homosexuals. And now, with both Passover and Hitler's birthday landing...

  • They Fought the Law

    By on April 2, 2003

    ''Even today I think those first six months of 1975 were the peak period of gay activism. We were really on a roll. '' That's...

  • DADT Discharges

    By on March 26, 2003

    Discharges from the military under the anti-gay ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell '' (DADT) policy declined by nearly a third in fiscal year 2002, the lowest...

  • All's Fair

    By on March 26, 2003

    Over the weekend, our friend Linda boarded a plane en route to Iraq, decked out in her Army gear and ready to serve her country....

  • Let's Talk About Sex

    By on March 26, 2003

    On the first full day of war in Iraq, a panel converged at the National Press Building to debate a different kind of struggle, once...

  • Night of Kings

    By on March 19, 2003

    On March 5th, D.C.'s monthly Drag King Night at Chaos celebrated its three-year anniversary. ''This is the world's longest-running drag king show, '' organizer and...

  • Crystal Clear

    By on March 19, 2003

    To combat a growing tide in both sexually transmitted diseases and the abuse of meth-amphetamines (crystal meth), the Whitman-Walker Clinic hosted a community forum Monday...

  • Fishing for Answers

    By on March 12, 2003

    In college, my friend Monica looked after my pets one weekend when I was away. I returned to my dorm room to find a note...

  • Distress Calls

    By on March 12, 2003

    Even as the latest in smart bomb technology steams toward Iraq with Old Glory in tow, the U.S. military's homophobe corps is still finding time...

  • Duct and Cover

    By on March 5, 2003

    Sometimes I feel like I'm in between Iraq and a hard place. But seriously, folks -- for lesbian feminists, the question of women in the...