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Hurtling Toward Hope
With the new year and new decade approaching, I realized I hadn't indulged in much retrospection. Then, standing in line at the grocery store, I...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: It's crunch time! There's a hard row to hoe ahead. In fact, the tunnel is longer and darker than your advance team knew...
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Buying in Bulk
Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa or Solstice -- or you're simply a guest at a nondenominational holiday party -- it's the season to give...
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Bare Ladies
Karen Diehl is stressed. ''I feel like a little boy who's just going through puberty,'' she laughs. ''My face is slightly breaking out.'' The reason...
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Virtuoso Virtuality
Avatar is the type of film that only the self-proclaimed ''King of the World'' could make. James Cameron has tackled futuristic killing machines, stomach-splitting aliens...
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Center Meets the Street
The Center, the area's LGBT community center, is about to trade its third-floor perch above 14th and L Streets NW for a new home at...
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How Marriage Happened
This week, the D.C. City Council voted 11-2 to legalize marriages between same-sex couples. This is a milestone for the LGBT movement for a number...
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Bitter Aftertaste: DC’s gay marriage opponents plan to use Congress as blockade [video]
”We will fight you in the courts, we will fight you in the Congress. We will not let you win.” Anthony Evans, preacher of the...
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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...
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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...
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Crack-up Cabaret
''I was always kind of fascinated by Martha Graham,'' says Dito van Reigersberg about the larger-than-life dance legend. He calls her ''an almost mythical figure,''...
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RCKNDY
The first thing you need to know about RCKNDY is that the name is pronounced ''rock candy.'' With that out of the way, owner David...
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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?...
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2009 Coverboy of the Year
This video is a behind the scenes look at the Metro Weekly 2009 Coverboy of the Year male model contest. It includes interviews with the...
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Gay Federal Employees Closer to Benefits
On Wednesday morning, Dec. 16, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee favorably reported the Domestic Partner Benefits and Obligations Act out of committee...
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Shocking news video: Gay video star dies as he struggles with police [video]
“We was(sic) trying to pull whatever he had in his mouth back out of his mouth…. Obviously, he was resisting and trying to prevent us...
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Final Vote Victory
The Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009 passed its second reading during a City Council legislative meeting Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 15,...
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Congress Rolling Back Riders
Time and again over the past decades, the District has been held back from implementing measures that some in Congress don't like, from needle-exchange programs...
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What’s in a Rename?
Buzz has it one of D.C.’s gay nightspots is undergoing a full-on name change. Hearsay learned from a secret source that the change could happen...
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Center Makes a Move
The Center, the area's LGBT community center, is about to trade its third-floor perch above 14th and L Streets NW for a new home at...
