Metro Weekly

News + Politics

  • Virginia's Resolved Outpost

    Thirty years ago, on March 25, 1975, the Alexandria City Council made a big step toward securing its reputation as one of Virginia's most progressive...

  • Fag Bashing

    The word lingered on my brain for about 30 seconds: fags. I mulled it for a second, was a little surprised to see it, and...

  • Talking Tina

    Crystal methamphetamine was on dozens of people's minds Monday afternoon at the Barceló Hotel on P Street. While mention of a hotel and crystal meth...

  • Health Fare

    For the LGBT community, next week's official agenda is health. From March 13-19, the D.C.-based National Coalition for LGBT Health presents LGBT Health Awareness Week,...

  • Bubbling Over

    On the way home from work this evening, I stopped at the Kmart on Fourth for some cotton balls. I like shopping at the Kmart...

  • Victory in the Heart of Texas

    As a small child growing up in a poor family in San Antonio, Lupe Valdez remembers her father picking through the fruits and vegetables thrown...

  • Welcome Home

    Click for more photos RELATED ARTICLES: Finding the Center (7/15/04) Home Sweet Home (2/24/05) Despite the slushy weather, members of the GLBT community gathered last...

  • Raisin' Funds in the Sun

    The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) is broadening its scope. The group announced last week that, along with its tradition of working at...

  • Innocent Ads?

    In modern politics, words and phrases that were once innocuous now seem packed with explosives. Red, blue, family, adoption, conservative, religious, faith, partner -- they've...

  • Home Sweet Home

    At first glance, it's simply another downtown office space: Corridors and cubicles and file cabinets delineating where work takes place. But then you notice some...

  • Condom-Free Porn

    I have this porno flick that was made in 1983. I'm not going to tell you the title. Let's just say it's 55 minutes of...

  • HIV and LGV in MSM

    With St. Valentine's Day, February is the month best associated with romantic love. Within the MSM (men who have sex with men) community, however, the...

  • Celebrities Shine for PFLAG

    The stars have come out in D.C. and New York, this time to lend their support to a new Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians...

  • Pluck Off

    I don't know what came over me the night, somewhere in the throes of adolescence, that I let my friends put make-up on me. I...

  • Conferring for Campus Equality

    Elizabeth City State University is about as ''small town'' as you can get. It's roughly 45 miles south of Portsmouth, Va., just over the North...