News + Politics
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Maryland Lt. Governor Brown: Vote on gay marriage close but majority support bill; will pass by April [video]
”I think this is a real historic moment for Maryland and an important moment for the country. Maryland is poised to be the sixth state...
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The Unspoken Six [UPDATED]
With Maryland State Sen. Jim Brochin (D) confirming that he has changed his stance on marriage equality by expressing his support for Senate Bill 116,...
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Talking With Grover
On Feb. 8, Metro Weekly spoke with Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, in preparation for this week’s cover, “Guess Who’s Coming...
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Metro Weekly Cover Story Preview: “Guess Who’s Coming to CPAC?”
Later this afternoon, Metro Weekly will be posting this week’s cover story — “Guess Who’s Coming to CPAC?“ We’re putting...
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Webb Announces Retirement
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Right Turns
There is, of course, the old canard that a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. Just from my personal experience, though, I know that...
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Marriage Talk in Annapolis
Hundreds of supporters and opponents of legal recognition of same-sex marriage in Maryland filled the state's Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee room in Annapolis on Tuesday,...
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Obit: Jeff Coudriet
Sunday was somber as news spread about the passing of local gay activist Jeff Coudriet. After several months of battling lung cancer, Coudriet, a native...
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Why Is the Craig Ferguson Sketch Anti-Trans?
It turns out that claiming something is anti-trans humor stirs up people, and brings them out of the woodwork to tell you why you have...
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Rhianna returns to sex theme with video for ‘S&M’ [video]
”I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.Sex in the air, I don’t care, I love the smell of it.Sticks and stones may...
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Do heteros need a proximity detector? Gay hook-up service, Grindr, aims to find out
”It shows the whole range of gay men…. They just want to hook up…. I don’t know that that’s going to work for girls. They...
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Anne Rice tells gay son, Christopher: My 12-year study showed Catholic Church ‘was dishonorable, dishonest… immoral’ [video]
”That was a Catholic who wrote to me. She is very upset that I left the Catholic Church, and she writes e-mail after e-mail, and...
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Activist: Ferguson’s Sketch Only Funny If “Transgender People [Are] a Human Punchline”
Following up on the Metro Weekly post about Craig Ferguson’s Feb. 4 sketch featuring his “half-sister” — played by a man and named “Peg” —...
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UK court finds Ugandan woman not a lesbian, denies her asylum
”I find that the Appellant was not and is not, on the evidence before me, a lesbian. ”er credibility is affected by her conduct. l...
