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  • Don't Stop Believing

    By on June 28, 2012

    There was a point in my life when I thought nothing could have more meaning than music. Specifically, during my teenage years in high school...

  • Stonewall Baby

    By on June 28, 2012

    A birthday is bound to prompt a reflection on the arc of one's life. For me, turning 43 on June 29, when I look at...

  • Home Game

    By on June 21, 2012

    Walking around the upper deck of the Nationals stadium on Tuesday night with friends at Team DC's Night out at the Nationals, a few thoughts...

  • A Child Shall Lead

    By on June 21, 2012

    Our 44th president's right-wing detractors have made a brand of their unrelenting vilification and thinly concealed racism, whether through ''Birtherism'' or wagging their finger at...

  • Faith in Family

    By on June 14, 2012

    When I married my husband, I got a ceremony, a ring, a certificate, a honeymoon and a commitment. Oh! And a swell dinner at Restaurant...

  • Buns Away

    By on June 13, 2012

    So I'll share a little secret: When I first decided to take my 12-year-old nephew to this year's Capital Pride Parade to ride in our...

  • Reasons for the Season

    By on June 7, 2012

    So, four seasons, 12 months and 52 issues later, here we are again at Pride weekend. Sometimes it feels like a holiday, with all the...

  • The Zombies of Summer

    By on June 7, 2012

    Signs of the End Times: A naked man in Miami looked up from eating another man's face and growled at the police officer, then resumed...

  • God Only Knows

    By on May 31, 2012

    It can be a challenge, being the nonbeliever in a relationship with someone who's devout. If I believed in such things, I would have to...

  • Launching Pride

    By on May 24, 2012

    Back in the younger years of DC's Black Pride celebration, I was coordinating HIV-prevention outreach efforts with one of my black co-workers at Whitman-Walker Clinic....

  • NAACP Gets to Yes

    By on May 24, 2012

    A group calling itself the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People hardly sounds cutting edge. Yet 62 of 64 board members for the...

  • The Rot on the Right

    By on May 16, 2012

    When Tracy Thorne, a Navy fighter pilot, came out of the closet on live television to Nightline's Ted Koppel in 1992, it was a defining...

  • Scenes from North Carolina

    By on May 10, 2012

    ''Watch out for copperheads.'' That seems to be my earliest memory of North Carolina, a casual warning that I don't recall the context for but...

  • Servants of Misrule

    By on May 10, 2012

    People in scorned social positions can sometimes transcend their subservient roles by their wit. This is no substitute for a liberation movement, but it can...

  • Generation Now

    By on May 2, 2012

    Eighteen years old may seem young for a human being, but it seems pretty old for a magazine. This issue of Metro Weekly is the...