Metro Weekly
  • Film on Plight of Gay Jamaicans Debuts Locally Tonight

    Before Uganda and Russia stirred international outrage for antigay policies, there was Jamaica, which is still an impossible place to live as an openly gay...

  • Bipartisan push begins for federal domestic-partner benefits

    A bipartisan effort is underway on Capitol Hill to secure equal benefits for the domestic partners of federal civilian employees. While the Office of Personnel...

  • Pet Shop Boys set to electrify the Strathmore tonight

    Veteran British duo Pet Shop Boys will electrify the Strathmore in Bethesda tonight as they continue their North American tour in support of thier latest album,...

  • Quarter-Century Sentence for Corkins

    Floyd Lee Corkins II, the 29-year old Virginia gay man who pleaded guilty in February to committing the August 2012 shooting at the Family Research...

  • Change Is Good

    My Facebook identity needs a change. For weeks, my profile photo has been the Trayvon Martin stylized black-and-white hoodie. My cover photo is Evgeny Feldman's...

  • Meeting NoVa Health Needs

    Due in part to the state's historically conservative tilt and anti-gay policies that have been enacted in state law, Virginia is often viewed as having...

  • Enter the ''Success Zone''

    Networking may seem easy, even natural. Especially for seasoned business professionals whose livelihoods rely on cultivating and maintaining vast networks of professional contacts. But as...

  • On the Road to Nowhere

    Sometimes it’s all about the synergy. With Woolly’s Detroit, the power of the ride is not just in playwright Lisa D’Amour’s potently drawn prisoners of America’s...

  • Hot and Not

    Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy feels very much of its time – the turn of the 1980s – as it starts. Lead character Arnold Beckoff is very...

  • Carrying the Torch

    ''Torch Song Trilogy had a very big emotional impact upon me when I saw it the first time around,'' Michael Kahn says. Of course, that...

  • Moving Up

    ''Have you always been a dancer?'' Actor Alex Mills gets that question a lot, since his principal work in the D.C. theater scene has been...

  • Coverboy: Noah

    If you like guys with a positive attitude, you'll love Noah. Originally from Bangkok, Noah has been in the United States for three years, where he's...

  • D.C. Sets First Bi Pride Day

    The District will celebrate its first officially recognized Bisexual Pride Day on Sept. 23 as part of a grassroots effort to be celebrate the bisexual...

  • Getting CrossFit

    “CrossFit.” Almost everyone has heard of it, though many don’t quite know what it’s all about. CrossFit gyms – or “boxes,” as they’ve been dubbed...

  • Mediocre iPhone Calling

    This week sees something new for Apple fans. For the first time ever, Apple is launching not one, but two iPhones to the clawing masses...