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  • Look Back in Anger

    By on November 3, 2011

    If I had to choose the aspect of my own writing I like least, it would be my tendency to delve into optimistic cheerleading. The...

  • Billions of Babies

    By on November 3, 2011

    Humanity has marked another milestone. We've not gone on to Mars or figured out how to create endless, cheap energy. Rather, our biologically programmed horniness...

  • Montgomery College Adopts LGBT Measures

    By on November 3, 2011

    Montgomery College, a community college in Maryland, is rolling out a campaign to make the environment at its three campuses more inclusive of LGBT students,...

  • Judge Oetken

    By on November 3, 2011

    On Thursday, Oct. 27, more than 20 judges of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York assembled in a special session...

  • Sorting Out Solutions

    By on November 3, 2011

    A group of LGBT people of color and community organizations held a modified town-hall forum Thursday, Oct. 27, to address violence and discrimination against people...

  • Walking for Whitman-Walker

    By on November 3, 2011

    Rain and snow flurries may have kept some away, but failed to dampen the mood of some 5,000 participants in Washington's 25th Annual AIDS Walk...

  • Queen for a Year

    By on November 3, 2011

    When it comes to drag, D.C. may not have the recognition of San Francisco or Sydney. But if the Miss Gay America pageant is a...

  • Hail Cesar

    By on November 3, 2011

    From first runner-up for 2009 Metro Weekly Coverboy of the Year to Mr. Gay Washington D.C. 2011-2012, Cesar Ayala shows no signs of slowing down....

  • Heartfelt Tribute

    By on November 3, 2011

    Holly Twyford almost chokes up recalling the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, when fear and death ran rampant. ''I still have a kind of...

  • Horoscope

    By on November 3, 2011

    Heavenly Round-Up: Something unexpected has turned up. Is it throwing a monkey wrench in the works? Is it a call to establish a new paradigm?...

  • Band Camp

    By on November 3, 2011

    DC's Different Drummers: Symphonic Band (Photo by Rob Mesite) Have you ever seen classical musicians lip-synch to pop songs – in drag? ''You're seeing members...

  • Country Rose

    By on November 3, 2011

    Forget death and taxes -- the two biggest constants in our world are heartache and the classic sound of Nashville. Luckily for us -- though...

  • Inspiring Betrayal

    By on November 3, 2011

    Stephen Pevner is a busy guy. After jetting off to Europe last week, where he attended a film festival in England, took a short trip...

  • American Youth Philharmonic Orchestra at NOVA

    By on November 2, 2011

    Daniel Spalding leads an orchestra consisting of students aspiring to become classical professionals, along with guest artist pianist Jeffrey Jacob in an “Orchestral Brilliance” program...

  • Seeking Adoption Equality

    By on November 2, 2011

    On Monday, Oct. 31, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) introduced the Every Child Deserves a Family Act – a bill previously introduced in the House by...

  • The Boys from Syracuse at The Shakespeare

    By on November 1, 2011

    Why would the Shakespeare Theatre Company offer a musical concert version of the Rodgers and Hart musical The Boys From Syracuse? Because it’s based on...

  • V V Brown at DC9

    By on November 1, 2011

    The British chanteuse V V Brown — like a poppier Estelle — returns to DC9 a year and a half after touring in support of...

  • Amtrak makes formal announcement about WiFi expansion

    By on October 31, 2011

    Just one week after confirming that it was conducting a soft launch of free WiFi service on its Northeast Regional trains, Amtrak announced that it...

  • Septime Webre’s The Great Gatsby

    By on October 31, 2011

    The Washington Ballet revives The Great Gatsby choreographed by its artistic director Septime Webre. Local actors E. Faye Butler and Will Gartshore, plus tap dancer...

  • We Were Here at the West End

    By on October 31, 2011

    David Weissman and Bill Weber’s powerful, captivating and carefully crafted We Were Here — having just screened at Reel Affirmations — is so much more...