Metro Weekly

News + Politics

  • Last Word

    ''It is an absolutely unfair burden. It is a burden no one else is asked to bear, and it is something I will not do.''...

  • Filling the Vaccine Vacancy

    September ended with some discouraging news in the effort to make a vaccine against HIV. Pharmaceutical giant Merck announced it was halting its large-scale clinical...

  • Dr. Discrimination

    While presenting her testimony to the Montgomery County Council Tuesday, Oct. 2, against the passage of a bill that would protect transgender people by adding...

  • Mouse Trap

    From violence, to dilapidated schools, to alarming HIV-infection rates, Washington is not necessarily the easiest place to be a kid. These understood realities of the...

  • Last Word

    ''Moving forward on this bill now will also better serve the ultimate goal of including people who are transgender, than simply accepting total defeat...

  • HRC honors GLLU

    The Human Rights Campaign is scheduled to recognize the efforts of Washington's Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU), on Friday, Oct. 5, at the Washington...

  • Georgetown Suspect Arrested

    Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier announced Thursday, Sept. 27, that Philip Anderton Cooney has been arrested and charged with simple assault, following a Sept. 9...

  • Suspected Shooter Surrenders

    A six-day search for 34-year-old Raina Johnson, suspected of shooting a former domestic partner in the neck, came to an end Oct. 1 when she...

  • Celebrating Growth

    True to its title, the Mautner Project's annual gala dinner and auction is all about ''Love, Strength and Hope.'' ''It's really a time for us...

  • Call to Arms

    It was a different Army when Aubrey Sarvis served for just over three years in the mid-Sixties, a portion of that time in Vietnam. And...

  • Mean Streets

    It's been three years since the brutal shooting death of Adrian Alstad, the popular gay waiter at Annie's Paramount Steakhouse, and the string of violent...

  • Suddenly Susan

    ''Largo'' used to conjure images of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, or lodge Bertie Higgins' ''Key Largo'' lyrics in your head. Today, Largo is more...

  • Workplace Warriors

    For the first time in its 17-year history, the country's premier conference dealing with issues of workplace equality and GLBT employees is making its way...

  • Inside Outing

    Mike Rogers of blogActive.com has been riding high since he was proved right in his charges that anti-gay Idaho Sen. Larry Craig (R) was seeking...

  • Marriage Blow to Maryland

    Mere hours after the Maryland Court of Appeals announced its decision Tuesday to uphold a 1973 state law defining marriage as a union between a...