Metro Weekly

News + Politics

  • Drug Bill Needs a Fix

    By on February 5, 2003

    Before you throw that next barbeque party, better frisk your guests at the door. Determined to push his Drug War bill through Congress, Senator Joe...

  • Comeback Kid

    By on February 5, 2003

    A rule of thumb for celebrities: When faced with a drought of exposure, go gay. Not that Marvel Comics is exactly hurting for hype these...

  • War Torn

    By on February 5, 2003

    NGLTF Executive DirectorLorrie L. Jean (Photo by Michael Wichita ) When it comes to Iraq, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force can't get a...

  • Missed Connections

    By on January 29, 2003

    News last week of the death of lesbian journalist Sarah Pettit did not come as a surprise to me, because I had heard that she...

  • The Fetal Position

    By on January 29, 2003

    Photos by Michael Wichita What exactly is a gay issue? Global warming? War in Iraq? These are, at least, issues that affect gays and lesbians...

  • Speaking in Mothertongues

    By on January 22, 2003

    Last night I went to Mothertongue, which packed the Black Cat with over two hundred wild women, poets, and writers of every sexuality our fair...

  • Community Matters

    By on January 22, 2003

    Washington's gay and lesbian presence in the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is set to grow again, as the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU) adds...

  • Transformation Train

    By on January 15, 2003

    It's April 1993, and we are golden. Everywhere we look, we are affirmed -- everyone's smiling and friendly, and after my first six months in...

  • Gender Battles on Title IX

    By on January 8, 2003

    The sound of macho-nacho cheese snacks pouring into man-sized serving bowls reminds me that Super Bowl season is here. But for many women, a more...

  • Auld Lang Syne

    By on January 1, 2003

    For 10 year's ends in a row, starting in 1992 and ending in 2001, I and others on staff at the gay newspaper where I...

  • Choosing Its Battles

    By on January 1, 2003

    The American Federation of Labor is linking arms with the Anti-Capitalist Convergence. The National Council of Churches is shoulder to shoulder with the ACLU. Even...

  • Family Ties

    By on December 18, 2002

    It's that time of year again -- the ho-ho-holidays, the spend-yourself-silly countdown to December 25. I'm a sucker for a shopping mall any day of...

  • Unlawfully Wed

    By on December 18, 2002

    Right now, there's a country filled with gay Christian couples thanking God that their prayers have been answered. Right now, there's a Bible Belt packed...

  • Ornamental

    By on December 11, 2002

    In August, you complained that the stores were breaking out their Christmas consumables way too early, but here we are two weeks from the big...

  • Campus Radicals, Past and Present

    By on December 11, 2002

    This is where I came out as a brainy dyke teen in Birkenstock sandals, fountain pen dripping with feminist ink: Washington, D.C. in 1980, on...