Metro Weekly

All posts by Will O'Bryan

  • Tour of Duty

    Tom Goss is not bashful. Nor is he pushy. Put simply, he has a message to share and he’ll do what he needs to express...

  • Twin Birthdays

    Celebrating my husband’s birthday last week, there were a couple unintentional themes at play. I’d taken him to Puerto Rico for a long weekend, a...

  • NGLF Camp Applications Open

    For some youths, summer camp provides all the traditional offerings of canoeing, cabins and popsicle-stick crafts. For the select 20 who will spend a June...

  • Westboro Baptist’s Fred Phelps dead

    “When Americans were faced with the choice of accepting their LGBT neighbors or endorsing Phelps’s unfiltered hate, they chose the former. He showed anti-gay bigotry...

  • Tales of the Tomlin

    There is no argument: Lily Tomlin loves show business. And that love has driven her from stage to screen and back again, countless times. With...

  • Washington as the Globe’s Gay Capital

    Earlier this month, I shared a post on my Facebook wall regarding Dmitry Kiselyov. The post was critical of the anti-Western, anti-LGBT Kiselyov, taking what...

  • Of Beasts and Brushes

    There is a quality to a professional portrait that most won’t be able to capture in a few smartphone snaps. Or even in a few...

  • Supporting Player

    Center stage is quite possibly the last place you'll find Chris Svoboda. While she's had a hand in multiple efforts over the years, she's made...

  • Daytime Paws-abilities

    High power, high pressure, long days at the office. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but many D.C. residents seem to find this a normal...

  • Felines on the Fringe

    Washington has always been a city in transition and likely always will be. And alley cats will probably continue to bear witness. They certainly had...

  • From Feral to Forever

    One of the knocks on the door last Halloween was not trick nor treat. It was a representative from the Humane Society holding the downstairs...

  • Mighty Real: Janet Mock

    Janet Mock's memoir, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, came out this month. As for Mock, she came out...

  • Gay Gulag

    With the 2014 Winter Olympics upon us, all eyes are on Russia. To an arguably greater degree than many of this year's predecessors, however, many...

  • UK’s Channel 4 set to air graphic report on Russian anti-gay gangs

    “We filmed these groups with their knowledge, and what I found shocking afterwards was that only a few asked to have their faces disguised. They...

  • Outdated Offense

    Another January weekend ends, and with it so does the Centaur MC's annual Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend. Congratulations to Joe Birdwell, Mr. MAL 2014. While everything...