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Protesting Through Prayer: Catholic University's LGBT students, allies...
News: A group of LGBT students and straight allies from the Catholic University of America held a campus demonstration outside a conference focusing on marriage and the family in order to protest...
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Channeling a Legend: Rita McKenzie pays tribute to Broadway powerhouse Ethel...
Stage: ''Growing up I wasn't a big fan of Ethel Merman,'' says Rita McKenzie. ''It wasn't that I didn't like her. I just thought, 'Wow, she's loud, you know? I liked Julie Andrews [more].'' The irony...
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Catie Cares: It may not be a cure, but Curtis is doing her part to help the...
Music: No matter how you look at her, Catie Curtis is certainly not unsung. Not only has the gay singer-songwriter earned substantial accolades for her craft, she's also pulled in legions of devoted...
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Down to South Carolina: Gingrich, Santorum and Paul attempt to keep...
News: With a Jan. 19 debate – which follows another South Carolina-based debate held three days earlier – this weekend's South Carolina primary appears, nonetheless, to hold dwindling hope for the...
View ArticleFoolish Thing Desire: For gay men, the intersection of sex and race brings...
Opinion: A few years ago, before I began dating my husband, my then-boyfriend took me to a summer cookout with a local gay Asian group. It was a fun Sunday afternoon of volleyball, hotdogs and chả giò,...
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Outspoken #46: Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend -- Leather & Harnesses: MAL...
Video: Ebone Bell ventures into Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend to learn about safe words and harness assembly. Comments from Matt Bamford, Jackie Thompson, John Watson and others at the Hyatt Regency...
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GLAAD Announces Nominees: Metro Weekly's Chris Geidner nominated for...
News: Metro Weekly senior political writer Chris Geidner has been nominated for a 2012 GLAAD Media Award for his series on the history of the Defense of Marriage Act. The four part series was nominated...
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Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: ''Extremely Loud and Incredibly...
Film: I can't give Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close a chance. It's bullheaded and downright selfish of me, but I just can't do it. Seconds into the film's opening credit sequence, when a falling man...
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Damien: This 23-year-old kickboxing instructor is also a model and student of...
Coverboy Interview: It's hard not to think of Damien, 23, as the definition of badass. He's done some time in the Air Force (not for him, though he's considering trying the Army). He teaches kickboxing...
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Calls for Action in Maryland: Marriage equality advocates recruit volunteer...
News: Maryland Del. Heather Mizeur (D-Montgomery Co.) and Del. Keiffer Mitchell Jr. (D-Baltimore City) rallied marriage equality supporters in Silver Spring Thursday night, Jan. 19, urging them to...
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Review: Aiden James: Aiden James adds many clever touches to punctuate his...
Music: Aiden James is not just a pretty face, writing and singing pretty tunes. In fact, James could get by as your standard singer-songwriter, nothing more. He could choose to sing his songs while...
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Riffing on Republicans: The Kinsey Sicks try to be funnier than Michele Bachmann
Stage: How could anyone be funnier than Michele Bachmann or Herman Cain? ''I kid you not,'' says Ben Schatz of the Kinsey Sicks, ''there were jokes that we wrote for this show when we first drafted it...
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Review: Red: Arena's ''Red'' is bracingly effective as a reflection of the...
Stage: Paint splatters and spills like blood in Red, soaking skin and canvas alike as an aging artist and his young assistant toil in a Manhattan studio. Subtle symbolism it's not in playwright John...
View ArticleNational News Briefs: Two referendums: Maine set to re-equalize, while one...
News: Maine Ready To Take Back Marriage Rights This November, it looks like marriage equality may once again surrender itself to the judgment of Maine's voters. EqualityMaine has submitted more than...
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Scruffy Songster: Aiden James on his new album, and coming to Town...
Feature Story: ''It sounds like I talk about it all the time: I'm Twitter obsessed! Like a Kardashian!'' For the record, Aiden James only brought up Twitter a few times during a recent half-hour...
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The Opposite of Albert: Janet McTeer's performance as Hubert in ''Albert...
Feature Story: METRO WEEKLY: Though they share a similar circumstance, Hubert is the polar opposite of Albert. What was your approach to the character? JANET McTEER: Apart from being a character that...
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Albert's Champion: It took 30 years for Glenn Close to bring Albert Nobbs...
Feature Story: (continued from "Close Up") METRO WEEKLY: What a remarkable motion picture. I was engaged and moved by it on every possible level. Let's talk a little bit about its journey from stage to...
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Close Up: Oscar Nominees Glenn Close and Janet McTeer talk about their work...
Feature Story: In the intimate, delicately wrought period drama Albert Nobbs, Glenn Close transforms herself into a 19th century Irishman who is concealing the fact that he is biologically a she. On...
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