Metro Weekly

All posts by Doug Rule

  • Sweet Licks

    ''You're no one unless you're on television, baby,'' says Luke Cazwell, the New York performer who goes by his surname. ''You can get 13 billion...

  • Playing with Pierre

    ''I watched a lot of porn when I was younger, and I guess I thought I could do it, too,'' says Pierre Fitch. Just like...

  • Moon Shine

    Marry for money? Why not? If one marries up, life can be that much better. That, at least, is the guiding philosophy of Susy Branch,...

  • Rocking Out

    Men will be at Phase 1 this weekend. And by men, organizers don't just mean MEN, the queer electro band featuring JD Samson of Le...

  • Out of Hibernation

    ''I'm not just exclusively living a bear life,'' laughs Bob Mould. But gay bear life has certainly been good to Mould, who moved from D.C....

  • High Notes

    Falsettos is about a gay man – a father – who divorces his wife but vows to keep the family together. In 1992, during the...

  • Thrill Seekers

    Planet Snoopy will be closed next Saturday night, Sept. 11, during Brother Help Thyself's annual outing at Kings Dominion. '' is for the kids......

  • True Love

    ''I would have loved for my mom to have had a relationship with someone,'' says comedian Loni Love. Love was raised with her brother by...

  • Swedish Delight

    ''Somebody alert the authorities, I got criminal intent,'' Robyn raps on one hip hop-flavored track on her playfully sublime new EP, Body Talk Pt. 2....

  • Either/Orr

    Keenan Orr didn't choose to spin for straight events. You might say he was born to do it. ''Growing up in Northern Virginia, I didn't...

  • Knockout Punch

    Kele Okereke, the 28-year-old lead singer of the popular British indie-rock group Bloc Party, came out publicly as gay earlier this year. He's already tired...

  • Summer Heat

    ''I tell people, if I were in prison, I would be out already,'' says Donna Summer. ''It's kind of old.'' In the mid-'80s, rumors swirled...

  • Candy Land

    The Green Lantern bills itself as a place ''where the men play.'' But on Saturday, Aug. 21, the boys will be there too, lured by...

  • Qomedy's Queen

    Fifteen years ago, Carol Leifer wrote an episode of Seinfeld in which the character Elaine Benes tries to get a gay man to ''change teams.''...

  • Comedy for a Cause

    ''I had gotten into a big argument with one of the local ANCs about gay marriage, religion and politics,'' says Sampson McCormick. ''And then I...