Metro Weekly
  • DADT Goes Fubar

    To care about politics is to be perpetually disillusioned. In the normal course of life, this isn't an indictment. We live in a democracy made...

  • Mova Files for Bankruptcy

    Babak Movahedi, the owner of the Washington, D.C. gay bar Mova Lounge, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today for the business that operates the...

  • Halloween's a Drag

    There are vague memories – just a blur – of tromping around in my mother's pumps. What was I, 3? As a high school junior,...

  • DADT Ruling Fallout

    For further developments on this story, check Metro Weekly's Poliglot blog.As the breadth of U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips's Oct. 12 order halting all...

  • Rhee Recap

    Michelle Rhee has been a controversial figure in D.C. politics since her appointment as D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) chancellor by Mayor Adrian Fenty in June...

  • Catie Curtis at Jammin Java

    The New Yorker calls the energetic Catie Curtis, part of Massachusetts’ thriving lesbian folk scene, a “folk-rock goddess.” She puts on a lovely show, and...

  • GLAA Ratings Redux

    The local and nonpartisan Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance, the country's oldest continuously running LGBT-advocacy organization, last week released candidate ratings for races in D.C.'s...

  • No Silence on Violence

    This weekend, La Clinica del Pueblo and a handful of other local organizations, including the D.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence, will launch a new campaign:...

  • Fighting to Save Our Youth

    Charles Robbins never attempted suicide. Growing up in Denver and struggling as a gay youth, however, Robbins found solace in alcohol. ''I remember my first...

  • Henry VIII at the Folger

    Robert Richmond directs Henry VIII, Shakespeare’s final history play that reverberates with power struggles — both political and personal — as Henry’s advisors, paramour Anne...

  • Federal Questions

    Discussion of LGBT bullying and youth suicide has led to increased efforts by organizations and individuals to eliminate – or, at least, lessen – both....

  • Helping Hands

    ''It has been unbelievably painful to have these kind of daily reminders,'' Eliza Byard, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Student Education Network (GLSEN),...

  • Cho-sen One

    When gay-fave Margaret Cho takes to the Warner Theatre stage Friday, Oct. 29, she won't be alone. Aside from the audience, there will be one...

  • Law and Order

    Last year it was The Blind Side. This year it’s Conviction. That feel-good, based-on-a-true-story film that allows established stars to flex their acting muscles by...

  • Honky Cat

    ''I know you could be just like you should,'' Elton John sings at the top of his new set The Union. ''If it wasn't for...