Minnesota took a step closer to becoming the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage today. Just months after Minnesota voters rejected an amendment to the...
The Next Generation Awardees are chosen from a pool of community nominations by a panel of Washington-area LGBT leaders from the worlds of arts, activism,...
Street performer, dancer and LGBT-rights advocate Qween Amor, a frequent fixture at Metro stations around the D.C. area, was assaulted and robbed while performing in...
Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist announced his support for marriage equality on his Facebook page last night. “Some great news: On Tuesday, Delaware became the...
When Barack Obama sat down with Robin Roberts of ABC News on the afternoon of May 9, 2012, many knew what the president was going...
A popular vacation destination for gays throughtout the Mid-Atlantic area, New Hope, Pa., will hold its 10th anniversary Pride, May 11 to 19. “It amazes...
It was just over five-and-a-half years ago that I first brought the idea of the Next Generation Awards to Metro Weekly. Because I happen to...
Jason Collins is not the first active professional athlete to come out. Tennis star Martina Navratilova came out in 1981. Her courageous act, however, was...
It's the poll heard round the commonwealth. EV Advocates, a nonprofit affiliate of Equality Virginia that performs voter outreach and education, sent an fundraising email...
The Capital Pride Parade still winds around Dupont Circle every June, but Realtor Ted Smith of Stages Premier Realtors Washington argues that the epicenter of...
What kind of maniac tries to adapt The Great Gatsby? Few books are legitimate touchstones in American culture, and for better or for worse, F....
A decade ago, when Texas-based filmmaker Yen Tan regularly commuted between Dallas and Houston, he wondered if he was alone out there. ''I would stop...
In a second act scene in Show Boat, the character Magnolia auditions to be a singer at Chicago's popular Trocadero Club. Magnolia was a star...
Life gets better. That's a comforting truism for those of us on the older side of the LGBT community, who've watched as our country has...
It hit Alexander AJ King when he was only in high school. ''I was getting calls back to back to back from my friends saying,...
Michael Komo came to activism early in life. More than half of his 24 years have been spent advocating for LGBT equality and he describes...
Throughout his life, 26-year-old Joseph Lewis has struggled with embracing the different facets of his identity – as a gay man, a deaf person and...
Thanks, in part, to high school years in the Junior ROTC in Forrestville, Md. – where she rose to the leadership rank of regiment commander...
One of the longest held beliefs in the fitness community is Cardiovascular exercise (jogging, walking, bike riding, etc) are the way to a shredded physique,...