Metro Weekly
  • Massachusetts Robocalls

    The National Organization for Marriage appears to be making automated telephone calls today in support of U.S. Senate candidate and Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown (R)...

  • Police in China squash country’s first gay male “beauty pageant”

    ”I’d be glad to see proper media attention on our community, but not hype…. I was shocked to find out that some online media put...

  • Money Changes Everything?

    SAN FRANCISCO – The discussion at the Proposition 8 trial Thursday swung from the economics to mental health. In between, it covered everything from how...

  • Judge Sides with City

    D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith Macaluso ruled this afternoon, Jan. 14, that the initiative sought by Bishop Harry Jackson on behalf of the Stand4Marriage D.C....

  • Calling Out Calvary

    Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church is no stranger to the local gay community. On one hand, church leader Bishop Alfred A. Owens Jr. has a...

  • Go Mama! Goes

    Noi Chudnoff was the heart of the Go Mama Go! gift shop, and a seemingly inexhaustible ally of the LGBT community. After her death in...

  • Lights, Camera, Inaction

    We are a nation that likes to watch, be it hundreds of cable channels filled with talking heads, YouTube videos of cute kids and keyboard...

  • Continuing Education

    Particularly around the holidays, we are ceaselessly implored to have conversations with our families about our sexual orientation. Ditch that reindeer sweater for a Task...

  • On Being First

    ''Being the first sucks,'' Amanda Simpson, one of the first openly trans appointments to a federal government position, told ABC News. ''I'd rather not be...

  • Rating Rubbers

    Rubber. Love glove. Sheath. Condom. Whatever you call it, the reliable prophylactic is arguably the simplest tool in the human-sexuality toolbox. For hundreds of years,...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: Is the burden crushing? The workload staggering? The structure straining? You're overwhelmed by responsibilities you willingly assumed. You're determined to change the world...

  • Kinetic Reaction

    Is there a doctor in the house? On Sunday at the 9:30 Club, there will be. An animal doctor, to be exact. ''I'm not practicing...

  • Hawaiian Punch

    Tired of this prolonged winter cold snap? You could head to Hawaii to escape. Or you could just venture over to west Dupont, where next...

  • A Different World

    A funny, provocative and emotionally compelling study of a family rock and what lies under it, Lydia R. Diamond's Stick Fly is engaging and entertaining...

  • Sister Speak

    In 2008 Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size stomped, beat and snarled its way across the Studio Theatre's stage. It was prose poem brought to...