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  • 2009: The Year in Review

    If ever there were a roller-coaster year, 2009 was it. Oh, there were highs, much like the one that helped close out the year with...

  • Courting Justice

    From excluding an ''avowed homosexual'' from the Boy Scouts of America to striking down ''a law that effectively excludes gay and lesbian people from the...

  • 2009: The Year in Scene

    JANUARY 8 · Bare Cobalt · Be: Bad Be Bar · Team DC Holiday Party and Brandy Dover Christmas for

  • Grant Cleveland

    First things first. If you read Grant Cleveland's October ''Coverboy Confidential'' interview, you might still have a couple of questions. For starters, Metro Weekly asked...

  • Cesar Ayala

    ''Dreams do come true,'' says Cesar Ayala. ''Look at me, I made it to the top three.'' Ayala, 22, woke up screaming with joy the...

  • Ryan Metzler

    ''I'm very aware of the fact that I'm not the tallest person in the world,'' says Ryan Metzler. Just how tall is the stunning 20-year-old?...

  • Punch-Line Politics

    Two transgender rabbis walk into a bar.... Wait, scratch that. Riki Wilchins, among the most prominent voices in America's gender-identity discourse, has taken a new...

  • Waters World

    In the annals of cinema, there are few Christmas moments more uproarious than the one launching 1974's Female Trouble, as teen bad girl Dawn Davenport...

  • Finding Hope

    Watch a random episode of The Simpsons and you may well hear a panicked Helen Lovejoy -- the reverend's wife -- screaming, ''Won't somebody please...

  • Trans Awakening

    On Wednesdays, Earline Budd is behind bars. It's usually from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. when the 51-year-old spends her time at the D.C. Department...

  • Unforgettable Sarah Marshall

    There's a funny thing about Sarah Marshall. (That is, something besides the fact that, thanks to a certain movie, a Google search of her name...

  • Wrapped Up

    The beast is almost here. Do you hear the tintinnabulation of its bells around the corner? See the glinting gold and silver of a million...

  • Batty for Halloween

    (Photo by Todd ''Fresh from the Grave'' Franson ) A time for terror? A chance to play dress-up? A family affair? Halloween can be all...

  • Dressed to Kill

    You can learn a lot about other people by trying to be one of them. At least, that's the lesson I learned years ago, the...

  • Touting Terror

    Fear bonds people together. So do joy, lust and a number of other extreme emotions. It's just that fear rarely receives its due. Rather, communal...