GLAA Issues ''Manifesto Against Religious Bullies'': Two-page document serves...
News: The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C., (GLAA) issued its ''Manifesto Against Religious Bullies'' today, just as the DC Black Pride weekend is kicking off. The manifesto cites...
View ArticlePhil Hartnoll of Orbital (video): A Soundwaves Skype Chat
Video: Phil Hartnoll of Orbital talks with Metro Weekly's Randy Shulman. Hartnoll talks about his renunion with his brother and the pioneering electronica's band's subsequent return, their new album...
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Coverboy: Jacques: Mr. Independent
Coverboy Interview: If Ne-Yo had a song called ''Mr. Independent,'' it would be Jacques's signature tune. The 22-year-old Howard University junior describes himself as a ''go-getter'' who likes to make...
View ArticleDC Black Pride Goes Back to School: Sunday's Health and Wellness Expo was...
News: With attendees filtering in and out, about 150 people filled the schoolyard of the Francis-Stevens Educational Complex Sunday, May 27, at any given time, all there to participate in the ''It's a...
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Kameny Home Sold: Unnamed buyer purchases historic site, while dispute...
News: The house of Franklin E. Kameny, a leader in the gay civil rights movement who died in 2011 at age 86, has been sold, according to the attorney handling the estate. Glen H. Ackerman, managing...
View ArticleCommittee Approves Beninda, Budd: Human Rights Commission nominees move...
News: The D.C. City Council's Committee on Aging and Community Affairs today approved the nominations of two well-known transgender women, Alexandra Beninda and Earline Budd, to the 15-member D.C....
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Lizzbian Power: Comic, pundit and progressive, Lizz Winstead talks about her...
Feature Story: Maybe you've heard the story about Lizz Winstead, as a budding comic, getting yanked off her feet by a bit of theater machinery as she prepared to introduce the acts at a bitchin'...
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Vice Squad: ''Bachelorette'' makes for an awfully vulgar, awfully funny 90...
Stage: It's worth knowing that Bachelorette has made playwright Leslye Headland a very, very popular woman. This was the play, after all, that attracted Hollywood goofballs Will Ferrell and Adam McKay...
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Superstars: Layered, cohesive and atmospheric, ''Tooth'' and ''Bacchae'' do...
Stage: A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll, WSC Avant Bard's spring rep of Euripides's The Bacchae and Sam Shepard's The Tooth of the Crime deliver a sense of epic, musically oriented...
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Some Enchanted Story: Marcelo Guzzo finds it enlightening how the audience...
Stage: The precursor to today's fight for marriage equality was, of course, the fight for interracial marriage. And that didn't reach its biggest milestone, the Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia,...
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The A Word: Steven Dietz's play ''Lonely Planet'' has had lingering,...
Stage: ''Our friends were just vanishing!'' says playwright Steven Dietz of the 1980s. ''It was hard to not write a play about AIDS.'' But unlike Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart or Tony Kushner's...
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Dance to the Music: Thanks to Parker Esse, everyone gets the dancing bug at...
Stage: ''I played Harold Hill in high school,'' laughs Parker Esse, when asked how familiar he is with The Music Man. Of course, his starring role at his Houston performing arts school ''was a far...
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Glambert Goodies: Adam Lambert's ''Trespassing'' is an album of songs with...
Music: Adam Lambert doesn't cover Destiny's Child on his new set Trespassing. But for some reason, something about the beat and the attitude of the album's start reminds me of the gritty, swaggering...
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The Power of Print: D.C. Printing Executive David Rowley Helps Customers...
Business: In an era when laptops and Kindles are as ubiquitous as rainbow flags at Gay Pride, and using a pencil and paper seems as quaint as a quill pen and powdered wig, David Rowley, owner of the...
View ArticleGlobal LGBT Briefs: Moscow Melee, Malaysia Book-Banning: Police arrest...
News: Orthodox Christians Rough Up Moscow Pride Following an ongoing trend in Russia, dozens of gay-rights protesters were arrested May 27 for attempting to hold two Moscow Pride rallies in the...
View ArticleNational LGBT Briefs: Protest, Praise and 'Ex-Gay' in Oregon: Infamous...
News: North Carolina’s Rev. Worley Warmly Welcomed It was May 13 when Pastor Charles Worley of Maiden, N.C.'s Providence Road Baptist Church told congregants how to ''get rid of all the lesbians and...
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Legal Leadership: Lambda Legal's Kevin Cathcart has overseen two decades of...
News: Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund's executive director, Kevin Cathcart, marvels at the changes in the law and the legal world since he began running the nation's largest LGBT legal...
View ArticleGod Only Knows: As a longtime person of little faith, it's a small cosmic...
Opinion: It can be a challenge, being the nonbeliever in a relationship with someone who's devout. If I believed in such things, I would have to think it was the universe's own little joke to pair me —...
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Concept Man: Arena's tinkering with tried-and-true ''Music Man'' may leave...
Stage: Beloved for more than half a century since its Broadway debut, The Music Man is certainly a musical comedy that's earned the label ''timeless.'' Yet what director Molly Smith does with that...
View ArticleAGLA Awards 2012 Scholarships: Arlington LGBT group honors two high school...
News: The Arlington Gay & Lesbian Alliance (AGLA), a nonpartisan LGBT organization in Northern Virginia, awarded two public high school seniors with $2,000 scholarships at the group's annual...
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