Metro Weekly
  • Protesting Through Prayer

    A group of LGBT students and straight allies from the Catholic University of America held a campus demonstration outside a conference focusing on marriage and...

  • Youth Protections Praised

    Virginia's state Board of Juvenile Justice voted 5-1 Jan. 10 to include protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation in new rules governing residential facilities...

  • Minister at Midnight

    Anthony Evans is an anti-gay minister who claims to head a vast network of black churches and sends me frequent updates on his plans. On...

  • Standing Tall

    Matt Bronson stood out among a crowded field of nine contestants at this year's Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather contest, held Sunday, Jan. 15. ''I was the...

  • Baltimore Bound

    The TLA Releasing team behind the annual Philadelphia QFest LGBT film festival, marking 18 years in July, announced new partnerships last week that will see...

  • Marketing Marriage

    For Daniel Wein, it's all about love and commitment. The George Washington University sophomore admits he's a fervent LGBT rights activist, so much so that...

  • Don't Tell, Go to Jail

    Two bills – one already introduced, one being drafted – in the Maryland General Assembly would classify transferring the HIV virus to another individual as...

  • Improving Sales and Profits in 2012

    If you believe recent headlines, there's an economic rebound underway, however small it might be. Markets are up, unemployment is down a bit. So, is...

  • Review: Little Murders

    A small company with an intrepid spirit, The American Century Theater taps another piquant time and mood in America's 20th century with Jules Feiffer's Little...

  • Maximum Impact

    ''It's a little bit different with us than other boy bands,'' says Max George, of the five-piece U.K. outfit The Wanted. ''We have 10-year-old girls...

  • Chord Progression

    ''When people started calling me Jonny B, I said that's enough,'' laughs Chord Bezerra. ''So I started going by Chord to avoid that.'' Of course,...

  • GLAAD Announces Nominees

    Metro Weekly senior political writer Chris Geidner has been nominated for a 2012 GLAAD Media Award for his series on the history of the Defense...

  • Cruz Control

    ''I won't be specific,'' Wilson Cruz says, ''but there's a show on television right now, a fairly new show, that wanted me to come in...

  • Creating a Conference

    It's not quite a quarter century, but the 24th year of Creating Change comes so very close. And Sue Hyde, the current director of the...

  • Folking Around

    For the record, Cheryl Wheeler is not an ''angry dyke.'' No matter what the Westboro Baptist Church says. ''Well,'' she says, ''I do get angry...