Metro Weekly
  • Shine On

    May 14 is ''SHINE Night'' a nationally recognized annual reminder of the millions of youth facing homelessness. The Sasha Bruce House, at 1022 Maryland Ave....

  • Pring Fling

    If the gayest corners of D.C. seem a little quiet next Thursday evening, Jacob Nathaniel Pring might be to blame. The promoter behind Jacob Pring...

  • The 2011 Next Generation Awards

    Every generation builds on the accomplishments of those who came before. The rights we enjoy today were secured by the work of the generation before...

  • The 2011 Next Generation Awards Panel

    The Next Generation Award winners are chosen from community nominations by a panel of local LGBT leaders. The 2011 Next Generation Awards selection panelists are:...

  • Gregory Cendana

    In no small way being taunted growing up in Sacramento, Calif., inspired Gregory Cendana to activism. ''Even though I wasn't out in elementary and middle...

  • Victoria Kirby

    Ralph Ellison wrote The Invisible Man as a novel exploring the narrator's sense of social invisibility as an African-American man of the early 20th century....

  • Daniel Fredrick O'Neill

    ''It's a sobering thought, how affected our community still is – whether it's preventable in a lot of ways or not,'' says Daniel Fredrick O'Neill...

  • Sadie Ryanne Vashti

    It was just before Christmas of last year that Sadie Ryanne Vashti sent an email to her mother asking if she could return home to...

  • Sondheim that Sates

    You love Stephen Sondheim, the gay genius behind such masterful musicals as Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park With George, Into the Woods, Assassins, Passion......

  • Ten-Minute Masterworks

    ''As far as we know it's probably the first time anyone in town has done something similar to this,'' says Jeff Scott, marketing and events...

  • Auntie Hero

    At first glance, the upcoming OutWrite ''Pioneers'' event at The Center, the area's LGBT community center, is already substantial, celebrating re-releases of two powerful books:...

  • The Glory and the Gloom

    With Placido Domingo singing his last role as general director of the Washington National Opera, it's hard not to take the somber – at times...

  • Clark Bars

    Jeremiah Clark was weaned on sad contemporary Christian songs. But now that's he secular? '' doesn't have to be Jesus on a cross...

  • Stand Back

    Stevie Nicks is back with her first album in 10 years – 30 years after her solo debut. She almost sounds like she never left....

  • Cheers to Beer

    While living in England nearly 30 years ago, Garrett Oliver developed a taste for beer. Real beer. Not beer mass-marketed in America, or what he...