Strategizing Ahead of AIDS 2012: Experts call for more comprehensive federal...
News: A panel of experts on HIV/AIDS told a room full of journalists at Tuesday media briefing that the right federal policies could essentially end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States. Held 10...
View ArticleProgressive Pocan: Mark Pocan hopes to become Madison's second out gay...
News: While Wisconsin's capital city, Madison, is often dismissed by conservatives, including the state's Republican governor, as a liberal bastion out-of-step with the rest of the state, the college...
View ArticleRep. Barney Frank and Jim Ready Marry: The two men exchange vows in...
News: More than 25 years after becoming the first gay man to voluntarily come out as gay while serving in Congress, and just months away from retirement, Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank once...
View ArticleWhat's in a Name?: The ''MSM'' label negates community, the very key to our...
Opinion: In the late 1980s, epidemiologists adopted the expression "men having sex with men" to categorize routes of HIV transmission, to acknowledge that not all such men identify as gay or bisexual....
View ArticlePretty Pretty Bang Bang: While showing our nephew what it's like to live in...
Opinion: So here we were, just an hour since our arrival at my sister's home in oh-so-rural Kentucky. Cavin and I brought our nephew, Andrew, here for a summer vacation to experience farm life,...
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Horoscope: Heavenly Round-Up: Once again, you've accidentally entered the Red Queen's race, running as fast as you can just to stay in place. You'll have to go twice as fast as that to get anywhere....
View ArticleMaryland Marriage-Equality Supporters Intensify Efforts: Pro-equality forces...
News: It's been a busy couple of days for supporters of marriage equality in the Free State. Marylanders for Marriage Equality, the coalition of labor, religious, and community organizations working to...
View ArticleMaking a Supportive Splash: DCAC offers 2012 Maryland Swim for Life,...
News: Swimmers will take to the Chester River Saturday, July 14, to raise money for both cleaner water and D.C.'s Metro TeenAIDS nonprofit organization at the Maryland Swim for Life event. The event,...
View ArticleAnti-Gay Group Uses Gay Couple's Photo: SPLC backs couple and photographer...
News: An anti-gay Virginia group has been slapped with a cease and desist letter after taking a gay couple's 2010 engagement photo from the Web and using it in a Colorado campaign mailer. The Colorado...
View ArticleNational LGBT Briefs: Orbit, Arthur and La Raza Launch: Asteroid named for...
News: Kameny Namesake Joins List of Heavenly Bodies While the late gay-rights pioneer Frank Kameny – a D.C. local who died Oct. 11, 2011, at the age of 86 – may no longer be of this world, his namesake...
View ArticleGlobal LGBT Briefs: From Parliament to Pride: Ukrainian legislators shelve...
News: Ukraine Steps Back from “Gay Gag Rule” All Out, the international LGBT-equality organization, reported July 6 that the Ukrainian Parliament moved to shelved the proposed Law 8711, which would...
View ArticleHearing for Barracks Row Suspect Postponed: Status hearing for Marine accused...
News: Michael Poth, the Marine accused of killing a fellow Marine following an incident where he allegedly called the victim a ''faggot'' after having earlier seen the victim embrace another man, had...
View ArticleUPDATED: Remembering David Chung: Popular Nellie's bartender, who died last...
News: If you set foot in Nellie's Sports Bar over the past four years, you knew David Chung. He may not have been the face of Nellie's, exactly, but Chung, a popular bartender and assistant manager who...
View ArticleRev. Evans Asks Mayor Gray to Denounce Same-Sex Marriage: NBCI claims...
News: The president of a D.C.-based coalition of African-American and Latino churches, the National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), is asking Mayor Vincent Gray (D) to renounce his support of marriage...
View ArticleJoshua: Mr. Manners
Coverboy Interview: For all the fun that bad boys can be, sometimes you just want someone you can take home to Mom. Educated, extroverted, polite and ambitious, 22-year-old Joshua can pacify even the...
View ArticleAPI Alliance Takes D.C.: NQAPIA brings its second national Asian/Pacific...
News: With all the commotion surrounding the XIX International AIDS Conference coming to Washington July 22 to 27, it might seem that the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA)...
View ArticleMetro Weekly Recognized for Excellence in Journalism: Political editor Chris...
News: Two of Metro Weekly's own racked up Excellence in Journalism awards from the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association last week. The NLGJA, which seeks to recognize excellence in...
View ArticleTruvada Gets PrEP Approval: FDA approves HIV drug as once-a-day treatment,...
News: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it has approved the drug Truvada for daily use to reduce the risk of HIV infection in uninfected adults at high risk of becoming...
View ArticleReport Highlights HIV/AIDS Disparities: Black AIDS Institute and others call...
News: A group of HIV/AIDS experts and activists called for decisive, targeted actions aimed at reducing the prevalence of HIV/AIDS among black men who have sex with men (MSM) at a press conference this...
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