Metro Weekly

All posts tagged "team dc"

  • Swimming for Scholarship

    Clayton Miller did not exactly leap at the opportunity to apply for a scholarship for out gay athletes. While students will often jump through all...

  • Go Team!

    Few metaphors speak as loudly as sports metaphors. Reach for the goal! Fight to the finish line! There’s no “I” in “team”! So it’s perhaps...

  • Bring It

    If some local sports enthusiasts' dreams come true, Washington will be the site of the 2014 Gay Games. That's the hope for some, following an...

  • Pink Shadow

    More than 200 people are expected to attend D.C.'s first gay basketball tournament, the D.C. Capital Classic, a National Gay Basketball Association-sanctioned event, Oct. 25-26,...

  • Playing Out

    At James Madison High School in Vienna, Va., being the gay member of an all-male swim team was ''rough'' enough, says Dan Martinelli. The feelings...

  • Go Team!

    With a myriad of gay and lesbian sports organizations in the area, it may seem daunting to try to pull them all together for common...

  • Athletic Support

    Greg Campbell was attending a gay-straight alliance meeting at Wakefield High School in Arlington, where he teaches math and coaches swimming, when he came to...

  • Good Sports

    The sporting arena in its various forms is the place where athletes come to test themselves against one another, and their own personal bests. Sometimes...

  • Bound for Glory

    Quick -- how many major professional baseball, football and basketball stars are out of the closet? Zero. Now, how many gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender...