Metro Weekly

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  • 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...

  • First Person

    By on August 6, 2003

    Returning from a three-week summer getaway, I find my e-mail box crammed with political updates -- and instructions for me to sign and send petitions...

  • A New Turn-On

    By on July 30, 2003

    Dear T, We only met this weekend but already I know that I love you. I hate to sound like I'm new at the game...

  • Ready for Vacation

    By on July 23, 2003

    Set loose on summer vacation and still jubilant over the Supreme Court ruling on gay sex, my girlfriend and I headed to Santa Cruz, California,...

  • I Swear

    By on July 16, 2003

    I have a pottymouth. I curse like a sailor. I think nothing of tossing around the f-word, the s-word, the p-word, the d-word (even in...

  • Minority Report

    By on July 9, 2003

    Just like that, I'm not a criminal any more. With the Supreme Court ruling on Lawrence v. Texas, I can cross Key Bridge from Georgetown...

  • A Supreme Victory

    By on July 2, 2003

    One down, two to go. Wherever one stands on last week's Supreme Court decision striking down sodomy laws -- with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's moving...