Metro Weekly

Pride Guide

  • Proclamation from Adrian Fenty

    33rd Capital Pride Week Proclamation from Mayor Adrian Fenty Mayor Adrian

  • Straight Up and Out

    Up-and-coming dance-pop crooner Brendan Velasquez sounds a lot like Justin Timberlake, and Velasquez says he was a huge fan of Timberlake's former group 'N Sync...

  • Youth Pride Alliance

    Founded in 1996, the Youth Pride Alliance continues to produce Washington's Youth Pride Day annually, in addition to providing other services. ''We also support and...

  • DC Strokes Rowing Club

    Maybe you've seen them gracing the slick black-and-white pages of their sexy calendar. Perhaps you've spied these athletic men and women slicing through the waters...

  • Melange Lavonne offers positive, gay-affirming messages in hip hop

    Time is of the essence to Melange Lavonne. ''I'm a cancer survivor. I realize life is short,'' says the lesbian rapper from Southern California. ''I'm...

  • Unitarian Universalists

    Why is Unitarian Universalism so appealing to gays? Margaret Albamonte, chair of Capital Area Interweave, a group with about 60 members representing 17 D.C.-area Unitarian...

  • Whitman-Walker Clinic

    Whitman-Walker Clinic's 30 years of service to the D.C. area LGBT community are legendary. ''We were the first LGBT-focused health care provider in the city,''...

  • Let's Hear It for the Boi

    Ladies and gentlemen, bois and grrls of all ages, E-Cleff has entered the building. And judging from past experience, she might take few hearts when...

  • Metro DC PFLAG

    It's hard to miss the Metro D.C. PFLAG contingent as they march along the Capital Pride Parade route. This collection of parents, family and friends...

  • Pride Sponsors

    Capital Pride Sponsors 2008 Presenting Sponsor: Southwest Airlines Capital Sponsors: Metro Weekly Suntrust Bank Washington Blade Legacy Sponsors: Wachovia Bank Whole Foods Yuengling Advocate Sponsor:...

  • Pride Scopes

    Heavenly Round Up: There is chaos under heaven and the situation is excellent! Surely those words make this a day to remember, a day to...

  • One in Ten

    Margaret Murray, executive director of One In Ten, was brand-new to Washington when she found herself walking through the 2006 Capital Pride Festival along Pennsylvania...

  • The Center

    For both The Center, ''Home for GLBT in Metro DC,'' and the D.C. Crystal Meth Working Group (CMWG) it sponsors, things have been busy since...

  • Pretty Powerful

    The Maryland-based band Odd Girl Out was named after a lesbian pulp novel, but it shares a name with a popular book that was turned...

  • Dignity/Washington

    ''RECONCILING YOUR spirituality with your sexuality'' is not easy, says Bob Miailovich, board member and treasurer of Dignity/Washington. ''It's an ongoing challenge,'' he says. ''Some...