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  • Metro Weekly's 2013 Next Generation Awards [video]

    By on May 19, 2013

    AJ King Je-Shawna Wholley Joseph Lewis Michael Komo Sean

  • Creating Space

    By on May 9, 2013

    It was just over five-and-a-half years ago that I first brought the idea of the Next Generation Awards to Metro Weekly. Because I happen to...

  • The 2013 Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards

    By on May 9, 2013

    Life gets better. That's a comforting truism for those of us on the older side of the LGBT community, who've watched as our country has...

  • AJ King

    By on May 9, 2013

    It hit Alexander AJ King when he was only in high school. ''I was getting calls back to back to back from my friends saying,...

  • Michael Komo

    By on May 9, 2013

    Michael Komo came to activism early in life. More than half of his 24 years have been spent advocating for LGBT equality and he describes...

  • Joseph Lewis

    By on May 9, 2013

    Throughout his life, 26-year-old Joseph Lewis has struggled with embracing the different facets of his identity – as a gay man, a deaf person and...

  • Nominations Open for Next Generation

    By on March 22, 2013

    Springtime is not just about blooming flowers. With school graduations, there is also something of the bloom of youth in the air. With Metro Weekly,...

  • Generation Now

    By on May 2, 2012

    Eighteen years old may seem young for a human being, but it seems pretty old for a magazine. This issue of Metro Weekly is the...

  • Christopher Barnhill

    By on May 2, 2012

    Christopher Barnhill may be only 25 years old. But to hear this Metro Weekly Next Generation Award winner tell it, he's already fulfilling his life's...

  • Iimay Ho

    By on May 2, 2012

    Iimay Ho remembers one of the first times direct activism paid off for her. While a junior in high school, one of her classmates drew...

  • Terra Tempest Moore

    By on May 2, 2012

    Describing Terra Tempest Moore, Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League Executive Director Andrew Barnett wrote, ''She is a natural leader, talented public speaker, and fierce advocate...

  • David M. Pérez

    By on May 2, 2012

    Some gay people grow up to run screaming from conservative Christian upbringings. Not David M. Pérez. This Southern California native embraced the values of his...

  • 2012 Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards Selection Panel

    By on May 2, 2012

    The Next Generation Awards are chosen from a pool of community nominations by a panel of Washington-area LGBT leaders from the worlds of arts, activism,...

  • The 2012 Next Generation Awards

    By on May 2, 2012

    As a community, it is vital that we understand our past so our history can be told. But if we hope to see change come...

  • Life at the Intersections

    By on May 26, 2011

    These past couple of weeks I have been humbled by the outpour of love and support from the community as one of the recipients of...