Metro Weekly

News + Politics

  • A New Turn-On

    Dear T, We only met this weekend but already I know that I love you. I hate to sound like I'm new at the game...

  • Ready for Vacation

    Set loose on summer vacation and still jubilant over the Supreme Court ruling on gay sex, my girlfriend and I headed to Santa Cruz, California,...

  • I Swear

    I have a pottymouth. I curse like a sailor. I think nothing of tossing around the f-word, the s-word, the p-word, the d-word (even in...

  • Minority Report

    Just like that, I'm not a criminal any more. With the Supreme Court ruling on Lawrence v. Texas, I can cross Key Bridge from Georgetown...

  • A Supreme Victory

    One down, two to go. Wherever one stands on last week's Supreme Court decision striking down sodomy laws -- with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's moving...

  • Safe Sex

    June 26, 2003: It's a great day to be a sodomite. In the time line of our lives, this is a big one. They should...

  • Victory Party

    As the sun set on the gay victory day, the rally supporting the Supreme Court's decision overturning sodomy had already ended. Signs were scattered on...

  • Gaydar Testing

    As an official bookworm geek, one of my summer jobs is to read and score AP History exams for the College Board. The College Board...

  • Surfing Buddies

    I have a gigantic personal network. If I needed to talk about a problem or wanted to chat with someone who shared one of my...

  • Record of the Past

    In this past year, the deaths of poet-activist June Jordan and women's music founding mamas Kay Gardner and Ginni Clemmens represent a cumulative loss of...

  • Voice of Reason

    In a chaotic living room in Iowa, where conversations between nine adults were shouted over four toddlers and pre-schoolers playing with toys and occasionally breaking...

  • On the Agenda

    More than 300 people started Capital Pride week at a panel discussion on the ''gay agenda.'' (Photo by Michael Wichita) Is there a gay agenda?...

  • Day of Tribute

    Christopher Neff of GLAA at the Tomb of the Unknowns (Photo by Michael Wichita) Standing on the stairs before the Tomb of the Unknowns in...

  • Graduation Gay

    Graduation has come and gone, releasing thousands of college students (at least three hundred of whom were mine) to test their bachelors' degrees in a...

  • Mr. Nice Guy

    ''I love your hair,'' the Compliment Guy told me one recent day. It wasn't a good hair day or anything; in fact, that morning I...