Metro Weekly

All posts by Will O'Bryan

  • Mayoral Meeting

    At the most recent meeting of the Mayor's LGBT Advisory Committee on Tuesday, July 24 -- the committee meets every other month -- committee members...

  • Safety Monitor

    The transition from July to August coincides with the phrase ''back to school'' creeping back into the collective consciousness. But with kids not due back...

  • High and Dry

    On Friday, July 13, at around 11 p.m., Apex was hit with a bit of bad luck. Without notice, water service to the gay dance...

  • Simon Says

    Simon Aronoff remembers being a child who would go to sleep with an expectation of waking up in a boy's body, rather than the female...

  • Wondering About 'Down Under'

    Although the District has, effectively, erased nude-male dancing venues off the city's nightlife map in favor of a baseball stadium, adult entertainment of a female...

  • Birds and Bees

    The mood in the basement ballroom of the downtown JW Marriott seemed fairly sedate Sunday afternoon, July 15, as Joan Roughgarden of Stanford Univesity presented...

  • Relocation moves forward

    The D.C. City Council on Tuesday passed, after second reading, gay Councilmember Jim Graham's (D-Ward 1) heavily amended One-Time Relocation of Licensees Displaced by the...

  • Fringe Factor

    IF YOU WANT TO MOVE into D.C. and lobby from K Street, glad-hand on behalf of Rep. So-and-So from any given Springfield, or save the...

  • Permanent Tribute

    Those volunteers and caregivers who have responded to the calls of the HIV/AIDS crisis will soon be getting a permanent tribute. On July 14, the...

  • The Rainbow Samaritan

    The pleas for pink dollars are never ending, an annoying byproduct of the increasingly well-oiled machine of GLBT politicking. Whether it's to fight HIV/AIDS, gain...

  • Linas Garsys

    Linas Garsys ''Holiday Takes A Baltimore'' (detail) 36'' x 48'' acrylic on board 2007 Being born in Thailand has nothing to do with Linas Garsys'...

  • Alan Defibaugh

    Alan Defibaugh ''Who Do You Want Me To Be To Make You Sleep With Me?'' 18'' x 20'' giclée print on canvas 2007 There's a...

  • Albert Schweitzer

    Albert Schweitzer ''Quilt Mama'' 16'' x 20'' mixed media on board 2007 Turning 40 just four days before the opening of ''Art in Heat,'' Albert...

  • Margaret Dowell

    Margaret Dowell ''Self-Portrait With Holy Man'' 4' x 6' oil on canvas 2007 Margaret Dowell learned her work ethic early in life, toiling in Maryland...

  • Looking Back on Pride

    The storm clouds remained at bay and the pavement never made it to the melting point. It's a tried and true formula for a perfect...