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  • Volunteer Spirit

    When Eric Cohen and Jonathan Blumenthal met while doing volunteer work with a gay and lesbian singles group, it was a special moment that launched...

  • Helping Out

    If you know you want to help, but you're not sure exactly where to start, look to The Center, the D.C. area's LGBT community center....

  • The Year in Scene 2010

    Picture it: Washington. 2003. A buoyant, long-haired guy walks into a magazine's offices. He's looking to buy a photo of himself in the starting lineup...

  • Coming Out Strong

    Looking back on 2010, it was a celebrity-filled year. In the spring, Kathy Griffin brought her My Life on the D-List reality show to the...

  • 2010: Year in Review

    JANUARY The transition from 2009 to 2010 was harsh, marked by a murder. The year's first issue of Metro Weekly reported on the shooting of...

  • The Path Down the Aisle

    Two weeks before the start of 2010, Mayor Adrian Fenty joined a crowd of about 200 at All Souls Unitarian Church where he signed the...

  • A Bully Year

    For young LGBT people, or simply those perceived to be, 2010 was a chilling year as headline after headline reported on those of them who...

  • A Long Year — With a Well-Deserved End to DADT

    On Jan. 27, President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress to give his State of the Union address. In it, he said, ''This...

  • Advocacy Gets a Shot of Organized — and Organizational – Chaos

    When then-Lt. Dan Choi and former Army infantryman James Pietrangelo II took a group of attendees at a Human Rights Campaign rally for the repeal...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...