Metro Weekly

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  • Between the Lines

    Quick! What's the definition of transgender? Well, it's anyone who was born as a man but considers themselves to be a woman, or vice versa....

  • Hard News

    When A&P groceries transferred Don Michaels to Buffalo, New York in 1968, it was an unlikely link in a chain of events that made the...

  • Chad Allen

    ''Long before I made the decision to come out and be an openly gay actor,'' says Chad Allen, ''I was told, 'Don't do it until...

  • Classical Figure

    Michael Kahn hates the legacy question. You can tell by the way he shifts in his office chair on this brisk Tuesday evening. ''I don't...

  • Rocket Man

    Of all the places you'd expect to find one of theatre's brightest young luminaries, Shirlington isn't one of them. We're not even talking about ''fancy''...

  • Republican AIDS Czar Scott Evertz

    That Scott Evertz is an openly gay man with a job in a Republican administration isn't the most surprising thing. The most surprising thing is...

  • Blurring the Lines

    Way back in the late 1980s, a flurry of novels by young writers heralded what was seen by many as a new gay wave in...

  • Sandra Bernhard

    How does one forge a personality as strong and unique as Sandra Bernhard's? It may have had something to do with her upbringing, first in...

  • Outside, Looking In

    ''Outsider'' is a pretty loaded word, with connotations mired in images of 10th grade outcasts in black trenchcoats, serial killers, and Harley-straddling Peter Fondas. So...

  • Finding Her Voice

    ''That was Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond with 'You Don't Bring Me Flowers','' Lucy Newman-Williams coos seductively. ''Up next, the Mantovani Orchestra, but first....'' Her...

  • Bill T. Jones

    ''I intend to live a while. '' Bill T. Jones takes a sip of coffee. ''And my doctor tells me I'll live a while. ''...

  • The Last Dance

    For a man whose record shop is going out of business, Wresch Dawidjan is buying an awful lot of CDs. On the floor next to...

  • Centaur MC's Mel Jacobs

    ''I remember the first day I walked into the New York Eagle. '' Mel Jacobs shifts in his chair and cocks his head. ''I had...

  • Andreas Ocando

    Back in the mid 1990s, as political instability roiled his home country of Venezuela, Andreas Ocando wanted to do something different with his life. So...

  • Christian Salinas

    ''I didn't realize how many people were reading the magazine,'' says Christian Salinas. ''When I was at the gym, or walking on 17th Street, people...