Metro Weekly

Columns

  • Brokeback's Lack

    In a 1980 essay entitled ''The Boys on the Beach,'' conservative writer Midge Decter described the gay men who summered at Fire Island in the...

  • Crain's Campaign

    Atop his editorial in the Dec. 9 issue of the Washington Blade, editor Chris Crain declares, ''After years of enduring silly claims that gay equality...

  • Chilly Reception

    When I look outside the front windows of my house, the sky is pitch black but the view is lit by bright white snow. I...

  • Court on Campus

    May the federal government deny funds to universities that ban military recruiters from campus? That's the issue the Supreme Court began considering this week in...

  • Open House

    I'd rather hang out at anyone's apartment than a bar. There's a bar called Tribe on the corner of our block that's filled with the...

  • The Cute One

    It has been years since I've answered an ad in the Women Seeking Women section of anything. It's been years since I've needed to; my...

  • Sense in Advertising

    If we do better than expected when Texans vote on an anti-gay marriage amendment on Nov. 8, much credit should go to the National Gay...

  • Same time next week?

    One of my therapist's favorite solutions to my perennial problem of feeling stressed out is to find ways for me to do more work. ''You'd...

  • Trouble in Texas

    Hardly anyone seems aware of it, but on Nov. 8, Texans will vote on an unusually far-ranging state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and anything...

  • White Wedding

    Around the time your late twenties begin to take shape on the horizon, everyone who's passed that benchmark will tell you that you'll soon be...

  • A Sigh of Relief

    How did John Roberts do at his hearing to be the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? Before the hearing, I laid out five...

  • Lesbian Stereo-hyping

    There are few moments in a lesbian's life with more texture, few occasions more richly rewarding, than the experience of sitting with a couple of...

  • On the Job

    Martha Stewart's own version of The Apprentice begins next week, and I am on the edge of my seat. Will she throw chairs? Spit fire?...

  • Arnold's Legacy

    There's no putting lipstick on this pig. Unless he changes his mind, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will become the first executive anywhere in the world...

  • Port in a Storm

    News this week that the California Assembly passed a bill allowing same-sex marriage in that state was cause for excitement, without a doubt. The measure...