WWH Now Recommending Meningitis Vaccination for Some: Local community health...
News: Whitman-Walker Health, the local nonprofit community health center that specializes in HIV/AIDS and LGBT-sensitive care, is advising self-identified gay and bisexual men, as well as any men who...
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The Sweet Smell of Ba'Naka: Named after an alcohol-based breath spray,...
Clublife: Ba'Naka and friends (Photo by Julian Vankim) Dustin Michael Schaad developed his drag alter ego Ba'Naka early. ''The first time was at a high school party,'' explains Schaad, who grew up...
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War Torn: ''Wallenstein'': Robert Pinsky boldly and cleverly freshens...
Stage: Playing in rep with Coriolanus, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Wallenstein offers another angle on a powerful military man falling fatally from grace. As extraordinary as the manic...
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Saturday Night Euphoria: The band The Presets promises a concert with the...
Music: ''Some bands are definitely more hetero. Some bands aren't gay enough,'' says Kim Moyes, chuckling. ''Whereas we definitely have our fair share.'' Moyes is one-half of the Australian synth-rock...
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Rapping Bear: Chicago's Big Dipper is twisting hip-hop's machismo conventions
Music: The raunchy gay bear rapper known as Big Dipper has gained a reputation as a sexual provocateur. ''Every venue I go to, after my show, the space really transforms and everyone just sort of goes...
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Remembering Tracks: Visitors share their memories of D.C.'s iconic nightclub
Feature Story: Metro Weekly asked readers to submit their memories of Tracks. Some highlights. ''I believe a lot of people became 'straight, but not narrow' because of the social opportunity that...
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Tracks Star: Michele Miruski returns to D.C. to spin classics as part of the...
Feature Story: Michele Miruski is still in the entertainment business -- in a manner of speaking. ''I entertain the residents all day long, or make sure they're entertained. I do activities for them,''...
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Bailey's Crossroad: Venerable nightlife promoter and DJ Ed Bailey cut his...
Feature Story: METRO WEEKLY: What did Tracks mean to you? ED BAILEY: Tracks was where my passion and my love affair with nightlife and nightclubs started, absolutely. It was the first club that I ever...
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Lightning Strikes Again: Bringing back Tracks for a special reunion weekend
Feature Story: Like so many others, Patrick Little credits Tracks in making him the gay man he is today. ''It's a common story of Tracks,'' he says. ''I walked in the door straight and came out gay a...
View ArticleRhymes with ''Gay'': CIA joining with the Chamber for networking event
Business: Earlier this year, when Chamber Executive Director Mark Guenther shared his excitement over plans for a networking event sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency, he might as well have...
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Allies on the Ice: Hockey world is working to give LGBT athletes and fans...
News: As far as the D.C.-area hockey community is concerned, the time to end any stereotypes of hockey as a virulently homophobic sport filled to the brim with machismo is long overdue. And now that...
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Preventing a Mob: We must defend liberty and equality from fear and intolerance
Opinion: On April 19, after the arrest of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (hereinafter "Johar"), residents of Boston's Watertown neighborhood applauded the police and chanted, "USA! USA!" Some...
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Good Times for Bad Boys: A trip down a wild and wonderful memory lane as we...
Opinion: Long story short, I found myself cruising around the Tidal Basin in the back of a black limousine with famed porn director Chi-Chi LaRue, a local party promoter, an ex-Israeli soldier who...
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Infinite Joy: ''Bioshock Infinite'' isn't just a great game, it's one of the...
Games: Bioshock Infinite carries a great deal of hype on its shoulders. The original Bioshock is revered as one of the greatest games of this generation, an example of games as a medium not only for...
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Youth Pride Guide 2013: Dupont Circle, Saturday, April 27, 12-5 pm, in...
Youth Pride Guide: Youth Pride Guide 2013 Washington, D.C.'s annual Youth Pride Day will take place on Saturday, April 27, 2013, in Dupont Circle. All LGBTQ and allies are welcome. There will be...
View ArticleSentencing Delayed in Family Research Council Shooting: Floyd Lee Corkins,...
News: A U.S. District Court judge this morning rescheduled the sentencing of Floyd Lee Corkins II, the Virginia man who pleaded guilty in February of attempting to commit a mass shooting at the...
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Allegations Aimed at Anne Arundel Police Chief: Larry Tolliver accused of...
News: Anne Arundel County Executive Laura Neuman launched an investigation last week into allegations that the county's top law enforcement officer, Chief Larry Tolliver, used homophobic slurs and...
View ArticleD.C. Leaders Show Support for Jason Collins: Washington Wizards center sees...
News: Jason Collins, a National Basketball Association (NBA) free agent who was traded by the Boston Celtics to the Washington Wizards in February, came out as gay in an interview with Sports...
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