All posts tagged "smyal"
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Solitary Confinement
After coming out to my mother during college, she and I entered into one of those melancholy conversations familiar to so many of us who...
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Leather Heart, Warm Heart
As the director of development for Charlie's Place at St. Margaret's, local folk-singer favorite Tom Goss has to keep his eye on the dollars that...
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Grant for Good
Verizon Wireless and the Verizon Foundation announced May 13 that they have awarded a $20,000 grant to D.C.'s Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL) to...
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Call for Action
The Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL), an organization dedicated to the needs of LGBTQ youth ages 13 to 21 in the D.C. area, is...
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Helping Out
If you know you want to help, but you're not sure exactly where to start, look to The Center, the D.C. area's LGBT community center....
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The Legacy of Laramie
As part of the Arena Stage productions of The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, Metro Weekly and Arena Stage will host...
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SMYAL Youth address recent LGBTQ suicides [video]
Metro Weekly reporter Justin Stewart talks with Andrew Barnett, executive director of D.C.'s Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL) and several SMYAL youths about the...
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Rhee Recap
Michelle Rhee has been a controversial figure in D.C. politics since her appointment as D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) chancellor by Mayor Adrian Fenty in June...
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Helping Hands
''It has been unbelievably painful to have these kind of daily reminders,'' Eliza Byard, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Student Education Network (GLSEN),...
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Getting Better
The first time I wanted to kill myself was eighth grade. The incident leading up to that was a rather convoluted one, but the short...
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Blowback on Bullying
Every 18 minutes, one person ''completes'' suicide. ''We use the word 'completed' rather than 'committed' because committed makes it sound like a crime and that...
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Meet the Next Generation [video]
Meet the winners of the 2010 Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards: Hyacinth Alvaran, Andrew Barnett, Harjant Gill and Amy Loudermilk. The annual Next Generation Awards...
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Activist Attacked
Tyrone Hanley has lost his memory. Not all of it, just the hours between sometime Friday afternoon, April 30, to the next day when he...
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Youth Pride Day on Stage [video]
SMYAL dancers vogue, duckwalk and Shablam! on stage at Youth Pride 2010: Michelle Raymond performs an acoustic version ''Umbrella'' for Youth Pride
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Andrew Barnett
The Next Generation Awards 2010 When Andrew Barnett headed out to earn his bachelor's degree, the Alexandria native got about as far away as he...
