Metro Weekly

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  • Southern Success Story

    By on April 30, 2003

    Yep, I spent Passover weekend in a pig barn in Ovett, Mississippi. Not kosher, you say? Ah, but I was onstage, emceeing the show, content...

  • Taxing Times

    By on April 23, 2003

    Are there two words in the English language more beautiful than the harmonic, lilting combination of April 15th? A linguistic pair as enticing could be...

  • Back to School

    By on April 16, 2003

    I recently came out to over one hundred kids at my old high school. I was invited to do so as the loyal and enthusiastic...

  • Good Dog

    By on April 9, 2003

    When these words appear in print, the world as I know it will have become a bit bleaker. A veterinarian will have made a house...

  • The Lingering Whiff of Anti-Semitism

    By on April 2, 2003

    The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum just concluded its powerful, four-month exhibit on Nazi persecution of homosexuals. And now, with both Passover and Hitler's birthday landing...

  • All's Fair

    By on March 26, 2003

    Over the weekend, our friend Linda boarded a plane en route to Iraq, decked out in her Army gear and ready to serve her country....

  • Night of Kings

    By on March 19, 2003

    On March 5th, D.C.'s monthly Drag King Night at Chaos celebrated its three-year anniversary. ''This is the world's longest-running drag king show, '' organizer and...

  • Fishing for Answers

    By on March 12, 2003

    In college, my friend Monica looked after my pets one weekend when I was away. I returned to my dorm room to find a note...

  • Duct and Cover

    By on March 5, 2003

    Sometimes I feel like I'm in between Iraq and a hard place. But seriously, folks -- for lesbian feminists, the question of women in the...

  • Rites of Passage

    By on February 26, 2003

    A few weeks ago, Olivia told me in no uncertain terms that girls can't marry girls. Tempted though I was to pat her down for...

  • Unfriendly Skies

    By on February 19, 2003

    With all the drama over terrorism and airport security since September 2001, it's easy to forget that plain old-fashioned homophobia can also ruin a good...

  • Where the Heart Is

    By on February 12, 2003

    A few months ago, I had occasion to take issue on these pages with an action of my hometown city council, which voted against a...

  • Lesbian Sex Stats

    By on February 5, 2003

    Have you ever been rudely jolted out of a dreamy Sunday morning sleep-in by a phone survey from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)? Last...

  • Missed Connections

    By on January 29, 2003

    News last week of the death of lesbian journalist Sarah Pettit did not come as a surprise to me, because I had heard that she...

  • Speaking in Mothertongues

    By on January 22, 2003

    Last night I went to Mothertongue, which packed the Black Cat with over two hundred wild women, poets, and writers of every sexuality our fair...