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WorldPride Voices: “We’re Here. We Won’t Be Erased.”
WorldPride participants share why Pride still matters, what issues drive them, and why visibility remains vital in today’s political climate.
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LGBTQ High School Athletes On Being Out in Sports
Recipients of this year's Team DC College Scholarships share what sports has meant to them and weigh in on transgender participation.
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Hopes for the New Year: A Metro Weekly Forum
We asked Metro Weekly readers what they're most (and least) looking forward to in 2025. Here's what they had to say.
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Instagram Flagged a Picture of Gay Dads with Baby as “Graphic” Content
Instagram censored an image of two real-life husbands with their newborn as “sensitive” and “graphic” content. The image was eventually restored. Men Having Babies, a...
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How’s Your Love Life? A Metro Weekly Valentine’s Day Forum
For Valentine's Day, we assembled a reader's forum, with questions about love, romance, movies, sex, and celebrities.
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Diversity Is Driving The Right Into A Panic-Stricken Frenzy
Under their MAGA hats, hiding behind a nonsensical definition of "liberty," these are not "patriots." They are the pitiable.
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Right-Wing Bigotry Hides Behind a Kid-Friendly Facade
The GOP's current cultural red-meat campaign against Trans youth is a fraud, as clear as it is cruel.
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Ireland is Leading the Way to the LGBTQ Future with Pride
Literary icon and Irishman Oscar Wilde leaps to mind when we ponder what's emerald green and gay. But that's the wee tip of the potato.
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You Got Out. Now it’s Time to Give Back.
There's no limit to what we can add to elections in those places we once called home. Pick a race and go all in.
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Personal Reflection: Ryan Spahn on Stephen Sondheim
The works of Stephen Sondheim, who died Nov. 26, 2021, at 91, often served to bring people together. Here is one such tale.
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A Year of COVID: Our readers weigh in about life during a pandemic
A year ago, COVID-19 shut down the United States. How has the past year changed our lives? A Metro Weekly Reader's Forum.
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The LGBTQ Task Force calls for the removal of Donald Trump
Donald Trump remains a threat to democracy every day he remains in office, writes Rea Carey.
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Hope for the Holidays: A Metro Weekly Forum
As we close out this most challenging of years, we asked our readers if they still felt festive.
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Biden or Bust: A Metro Weekly Forum
We asked the LGBTQ community (and its allies) about the election, Biden and Trump, and why everyone should vote.
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Charlotte Clymer: The GOP’s SCOTUS grab should make you angry, and make you vote
To Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Amy Coney Barrett, democracy is only valuable when it's made in their own image.
