Features
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Making Marriage Equal
Since November 2008, when the voters of California passed Proposition 8 and ended marriage equality in the state, much attention has been given to the...
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Franklin Caintic
In his original Coverboy profile last May, Franklin Caintic said he had ''lube, massage oil and dental floss'' in his nightstand drawer. Dental floss? ''It's...
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Chris Rushton
No matter how you ask it, the answer is ''No.'' Chris Rushton is not doing porn. The 19-year-old has received a lot of weird requests...
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Ben Horen
When Metro Weekly first checked in with Ben Horen last spring, the aspiring actor was on the move, having recently added some modeling to his...
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The Nightlife Coverboy: A Brief History
You can blame it all on Ed Bailey. During the early days of Metro Weekly, Ed, who at the time ran VelvetNation and now co-owns...
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Assorted Views
Big Gay News.com (Minneapolis)Bradley Traynor covers headlines from across the world, from a LGBT perspective.Site: biggaynews.com. Feast of Fun (Chicago)A daily talk show hosted by...
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Aural Fixation
It's hard to take a radio show seriously when it gets its name from a gay stereotype. ''Swish'' was used once upon a time to...
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Show and Tell
Jonathan D. Katz was literally thrown out of New York's Guggenheim Museum in 2005. Katz, at the time the founding director of Lesbian and Gay...
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The Circle of Censorship [UPDATED]
On June 14, 1989, The New York Times reported, ''The Corcoran Gallery of Art has canceled a planned retrospective of the work of the photographer...
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Family Care
It's unlikely you ever met the late Carl Vogel. If you've seen his playwright sister Paula Vogel's Obie-winning Baltimore Waltz, you may have at least...
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Storied Lives
Moises Kaufman Moises Kaufman enjoys telling stories. He especially enjoys telling stories about how we tell stories. The Venezuelan-born, gay playwright and director says narrative...
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The Legacy of Laramie
As part of the Arena Stage productions of The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, Metro Weekly and Arena Stage will host...
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Wrestling with the Truth
Some people are very guarded when it comes to their personal space. Donna Rose is not one of them. Instead, she likes to hug. Her...
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Man in the Middle
As a young boy in New Jersey, just about yay-tall, Jonathan Capehart knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up: a television...
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The 7 Scariest Places in D.C.
They lurk behind their innocent facades, waiting for the moment your sense of safety lulls you into complacence. They toil and fester as they plot...
