Metro Weekly

All posts by Sean Bugg

  • Marriage Equality: A Win for History

    Achieving marriage equality built on the past and should be a springboard for the future

  • Opinion: Whitewashing History

    It’s time for whites –- including LGBTs –- to move beyond willful ignorance when it comes to race in America

  • The 2015 Next Generation Awards

    Generations change. That’s why it feels so right that we’re celebrating the LGBT community’s next generation in Metro Weekly the same week we’re watching as...

  • A Next Generation Dream

    And so but wow, what an amazing few years we’ve been through, right? That sounds a bit flip — well, more than a bit — but...

  • An Amazing Journey

    I’m not the man I used to be. If you look at a picture of me from 20 years ago, you’ll recognize me even though...

  • Taking the Cake

    Back in early 2007 I found myself sitting in the fondant-bedecked office of a professional wedding-cake baker in search of the perfect (yet still affordable)...

  • Mixed Messages

    Leave it to Virginia to throw a wrench in my wedding plans. This was to be the year that my husband, Cavin, and I took...

  • Game Changer

    Before I jump into writing about football, I have to share a few facts about myself so you can decide exactly how seriously you want...

  • All in the Family

    Unsurprisingly, I could be a precocious brat as a child because I spent so much energy not wanting to be a child. I hated being...

  • Comfortably Numb

    Clichés get a bad rap because they beat dead horses until the cows come home with all the originality of the wall of books Barnes...

  • My Old Virginia Home

    This week in Richmond saw the inauguration of Terry McAuliffe as Virginia's governor and the start of a new Virginia political era: ''At Least It's...

  • Big Buzz

    It's fair enough to say that I've been fucked up a few times in my life. I point that out because, with the legalization of...

  • Duck Amuck

    One of the more frustrating aspects of the annual media rite of ''Year in Review'' stories is that they start hitting around Dec. 1, which...

  • The Hope for the Pope

    So here we are, nearing the end of 2013 under the annual bombardment of year-in-reviews and ''Person of the Year'' covers. While I enjoy reading...

  • Book 'Em

    Currently, I have 19 books on my nightstand, which makes it less of a nightstand and more of a bookshelf. If I were answering Coverboy...