More details about all of these venues is available here. JULY Neon Trees — Tickets remain only for the Baltimore show of this appealing gay-fronted...
President Barack Obama announced Monday that he would take additional executive action to protect LGBT workers by signing an executive order to protect transgender federal...
“It literally took me seconds to decide it was the perfect case,” Roberta Kaplan recounts of her first meeting with Edith Windsor. It was 2009,...
If there were any lingering doubts over President Barack Obama’s legacy on LGBT rights, the nation’s first African-American president appeared to wipe them away last...
Includes the first out black man in the nation’s history to serve as a federal judge
A panel of three judges in Richmond’s U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit today heard oral arguments in the case of Bostic v. Schaefer, challenging Virginia’s...
Thirty years ago this month, in May 1984, Prince was readying the release of the first single from his upcoming album and film, Purple Rain....
At any given time in our history, Metro Weekly has never relied upon an army of writers or photographers to get things done. It’s always...
Everyone has a story. Since the beginning, Metro Weekly has shared those stories. More often than not, they’re in the sources’ own words. We’ve just...
“Jason has always maintained he’s first a basketball player. He is. But he’s also a leader and an inspiration. For Michael Sam, Derrick Gordon and...
In the spring of 2009, Jo Becker, a reporter for The New York Times, began working on a profile of Ted Olson. Olson had recently...
The rain of ridiculous ravings from America’s political right continued unabated as spring took hold. Let’s look at a few examples. Last week, Chelsea Clinton...
There is no argument: Lily Tomlin loves show business. And that love has driven her from stage to screen and back again, countless times. With...
There is no compelling medical rationale for banning transgender people from serving in the American military, an independent commission led by a former U.S. surgeon...
You may know John Waters best as a wacky, beloved Baltimore filmmaker, but these days he's spending more time on the standup circuit -- which...