Metro Weekly

All posts by Will O'Bryan

  • Mountain State Milestone

    Regardless of what the superstitious might say, Friday the 13th was a very lucky day in West Virginia. ''Today, in the State Senate, we passed...

  • Pulling Out the PFLAG Stops

    Washington is home to many national GLBT organizations working for equality on nearly every front. When you look at the lineup for one organization's upcoming...

  • Grassroots & Gigabytes

    In the streets or online, you may already know Michael Crawford. Did he ask you to ''get out the vote'' for Barack Obama while serving...

  • The New Victims

    There are certain clichƩs about ''liberals,'' ''progressives,'' ''lefties,'' what have you. As a longtime spy in that house of love, I can tell you that...

  • Clinic Counters

    First -- depending on how one measure's a local tempest -- came the layoffs in December, including the dismissal of two GLBT community pioneers, Barbara...

  • Inside Scoop

    Spend just a few minutes watching the news and it's hard not to see a horizon filled with anything but storm clouds. Wall Street is...

  • Partners in Limbo

    Nearly three weeks ago, Feb. 16, the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA) issued an ''action alert'' asking locals to urge Mayor Adrian Fenty to...

  • Fabulously Freddie's

    Step into Freddie's world for a night -- with splashes of blue and purple, flamingoes and cocktail umbrellas -- and it's easy to forget you're...

  • Vacation Baggage

    Dateline: ms Eurodam, at sea, Feb. 22. Don't ask me what the ''ms'' stands for, or why it's not capitalized. Were I at work, I'd...

  • Catania Goes Collegiate

    David Catania (I-At large), one of the District's two openly gay City Council members, announced earlier this month that he has been appointed to faculty...

  • Sentimental Screening

    In the country that gave the world Hollywood, the home theater may be particularly at home. Certainly it's a popular amenity at America's most famous...

  • From the Top

    As the head of Channel 1 Releasing, Chi Chi LaRue is the Hugh Hefner of gay porn. From humble beginnings in tiny Hibbing, Minn., as...

  • Survey for Safety

    Washington is home to the mother lode of public and nonprofit entities that digest data, move society forward, and dole out funding for an infinite...

  • Yinning My Yang

    Here comes Valentine's Day and the attendant red, chocolate and roses. My first memory of the holiday is from early childhood. It's not of the...

  • Unreasonably Hot

    It may not be the season for sizzling, but if it's balmy you're after you can go quite a bit higher than 30 Degrees. Just...