Metro Weekly

All posts by Will O'Bryan

  • Israeli zoo’s female couple join list of same-sex penguin pairings

    “They’re living together, they have their own nest. We even saw them trying to mate a few weeks ago. They’re also acting as if they...

  • Where Leather Meets Levity

    As dependable as cherry blossoms in spring, Washington is once again ready to welcome the Centaur Motorcycle Club's Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend, Jan. 17 to 20....

  • Hello, 2014

    With my last column of 2013 dedicated to my holiday wishes, the first column of 2014 should obviously be dedicated to predictions. First up in...

  • Uganda Parliament passes anti-gay bill

    “I am officially illegal.” —Frank Mugisha, head of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), following the Ugandan Parliament’s passage of a bill that, while no longer including...

  • Seasonal Solace

    For many LGBT people, religious faith can be tricky. And that may be more true as we catapult into Christmastime, when everything seems to be...

  • The What, When and Who of 2013

    It's not quite over, but 2013 has already piled up enough historic points to sit out the few days remaining to 2014. While the community...

  • Brian Embly: 1st Runner-Up

    {Brian Embly (Photo by Julian Vankim)} {Coverboy: Brian (Photo by Julian Vankim)} The shy guy is not the one you expect to be baring it...

  • Holiday Wish List

    My, it's been a big year. Particularly so for gay Americans, thanks to the Supreme Court gutting the Defense of Marriage Act. Then again, for...

  • Out and Tuned In

    When it comes to ''institutions,'' D.C. has plenty that are completely removed from Congress, the White House, the Smithsonian or all the other icons recognized...

  • Wives Making Waves

    For some couples, marriage might signal the start of quiet domesticity. Then there are the power couples. Bill and Hillary. Sonny and Cher. And certainly...

  • CAP Releases LGBT Detainee Report

    Four days before Thanksgiving, Nov. 25, an audience at the downtown D.C. headquarters of the Center for American Progress (CAP) listened to a story that...

  • Gunmen reportedly open fire at Moscow gay club

    “Homophobia is policy in Putin’s Russia!”    –Spectrum Human Rights, from the Virginia-based human-rights group’s Nov. 16 release advisving that affiliates in Moscow and Russian...

  • Laverne Cox returns to TV as HBO Latino debuts “Musical Chairs”

    While we’re waiting for Season 2 of the groundbreaking Orange Is the New Black, based on Piper Kerman’s prison memoir of the same name, to...

  • One Gay Man's Russia

    In the comfortable second-floor meeting space of Dupont Circle's Le Mirch restaurant Wednesday evening, Nov. 13, the conversation had zero to do with anything so...

  • Listening and Learning

    With the holidays around the corner, plenty of us are bound to find ourselves in alien surroundings. It might be at the family home of...