All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Forum: Sex Work is Work
Decriminalizing sex work is a step that can start a monumental series of changes in our community
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Forum: Decriminalizing and destigmatizing sex work will make the District safer for transgender women
At Whitman-Walker Health, and in the Gender Affirming Care team in particular, we know that shame and stigma steal the quality of our health and...
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Metro Weekly: August 8, 2019 – Julio Torres (PDF)
Open in full-screen mode for a better view. Julio Torres – Restaurant Week – Out On the Town – Mock Debate: The Constituents – Town...
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OutWrite 2019: 10 Must-Read Excerpts from DC’s LGBTQ Literary Festival
From poetry to prose, we've gathered ten unmissable excerpts from this year's OutWrite
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OutWrite 2019: Latinx LGBTQ Poetry by Jose Gutierrez
'El suspiro del angel' and 'Raices de amor'
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OutWrite 2019: ‘The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion’ by Margaret Killjoy
Sometimes you have to pull a knife. It’s not a good thing. I don’t enjoy it. But sometimes you just have to get a knife...
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OutWrite 2019: ‘Rivers, Lament’ by Marcos Martinez
An excerpt from Embarkations (or, Boating for Beginners), a novel-in-progress
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OutWrite 2019: ‘Nirvana Is Here’ by Aaron Hamburger
The book’s protagonist is a Medieval historian named Ari Silverman. Nirvana Is Here begins in Ari’s present. An openly gay professor, he’s about to meet...
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Metro Weekly magazine: 2019-08-01 edition (PDF)
OutWrite 2019: Special Literary Issue – Sutton Lee Seymour – Lady Sin-A-Gaga – Paris is Burning – Of Monsters and Men – Nightlife. Open...
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OutWrite 2019: ‘Queer True Crime in Postwar America’ by James Polchin
An excerpt from 'Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall'
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OutWrite 2019: ‘I’m Unarmed’ by Ruth Joffre
An excerpt from "Night Beast"
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OutWrite 2019: ‘Disease’ by Hans M. Hirschi
When journalist Hunter MacIntyre is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s, he realizes that his life is about to change, not to mention that he’s been handed...
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OutWrite 2019: ‘Deadeye: A Luce Hansen Thriller’ by Meredith Doench
The sun sank low on the South Carolina horizon. I leaned back in my seat, let the paddle rest across my lap, and welcomed that...
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OutWrite 2019: ‘Jamaican Gay Activist Found Slain’ by Venus Thrash
You’re not surprised you died so inelegantly in your own home your own bed faced down on bended knee as if in raptured prayer. Your...
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OutWrite 2019: ‘Nakba Day Dance’ by Rasha Abdulhadi
sing to me now, sisters of my sitti- women i will never meet even in pictures or stories my aunts and girl-cousins who would teach...
