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  • S.C. Shake-Ups: Perry Drops Out, Romney Takes Tax Questions, Gingrich’s Ex-Wife Speaks

    This morning, Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced...

  • What was your first piece of leather?

    . Fill out my Wufoo

  • Outspoken #46: Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend — Leather & Harnesses

    Ebone Bell ventures into Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend to learn about safe words, stereotypes, and harness assembly. Comments from Matt Bamford, Jackie Thompson, John Watson and...

  • Foolish Thing Desire

    A few years ago, before I began dating my husband, my then-boyfriend took me to a summer cookout with a local gay Asian group. It...

  • Down to South Carolina

    With a Jan. 19 debate – which follows another South Carolina-based debate held three days earlier – this weekend's South Carolina primary appears, nonetheless, to...

  • Catie Cares

    No matter how you look at her, Catie Curtis is certainly not unsung. Not only has the gay singer-songwriter earned substantial accolades for her craft,...

  • Channeling a Legend

    ''Growing up I wasn't a big fan of Ethel Merman,'' says Rita McKenzie. ''It wasn't that I didn't like her. I just thought, 'Wow, she's...

  • Protesting Through Prayer

    A group of LGBT students and straight allies from the Catholic University of America held a campus demonstration outside a conference focusing on marriage and...

  • Youth Protections Praised

    Virginia's state Board of Juvenile Justice voted 5-1 Jan. 10 to include protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation in new rules governing residential facilities...

  • Minister at Midnight

    Anthony Evans is an anti-gay minister who claims to head a vast network of black churches and sends me frequent updates on his plans. On...

  • Standing Tall

    Matt Bronson stood out among a crowded field of nine contestants at this year's Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather contest, held Sunday, Jan. 15. ''I was the...

  • Baltimore Bound

    The TLA Releasing team behind the annual Philadelphia QFest LGBT film festival, marking 18 years in July, announced new partnerships last week that will see...

  • Marketing Marriage

    For Daniel Wein, it's all about love and commitment. The George Washington University sophomore admits he's a fervent LGBT rights activist, so much so that...

  • Don't Tell, Go to Jail

    Two bills – one already introduced, one being drafted – in the Maryland General Assembly would classify transferring the HIV virus to another individual as...

  • Improving Sales and Profits in 2012

    If you believe recent headlines, there's an economic rebound underway, however small it might be. Markets are up, unemployment is down a bit. So, is...

  • Review: Little Murders

    A small company with an intrepid spirit, The American Century Theater taps another piquant time and mood in America's 20th century with Jules Feiffer's Little...

  • Maximum Impact

    ''It's a little bit different with us than other boy bands,'' says Max George, of the five-piece U.K. outfit The Wanted. ''We have 10-year-old girls...

  • Chord Progression

    ''When people started calling me Jonny B, I said that's enough,'' laughs Chord Bezerra. ''So I started going by Chord to avoid that.'' Of course,...

  • GLAAD Announces Nominees

    Metro Weekly senior political writer Chris Geidner has been nominated for a 2012 GLAAD Media Award for his series on the history of the Defense...

  • Cruz Control

    ''I won't be specific,'' Wilson Cruz says, ''but there's a show on television right now, a fairly new show, that wanted me to come in...