Metro Weekly (Newspaper Magazine of Gay and Lesbian DC)Weekly gay publication of Washington, DC including features on news, arts, politics, lifestlye, film, music, as well as events calendars, classifieds, home ads and free personals.Night Light: On her new dance album, Cyndi Lauper branches out beyond what we've heard before, with moderate success- June 12, 2008 Music: ''Got this endless itch to ride into the night.'' It might as well be Cyndi Lauper's unofficial motto. Lauper sings the line on her new single ''Into the Nightlife,'' as the bass revs up behind her, preparing to launch into orbit the song's stratospheric chorus. Nighttime is the ''precious time when time is new,'' she sang on her early hit, ''All Through the Night.'' Nighttime is the time to surprise a long-distance lover, she expressed several years later on ''I Drove All Night.'' And,..http://www.metroweekly.com/arts_entertainment/music.php?ak=3565 Noi Chudnoff: Capital Pride Heroes 2008- June 12, 2008 Feature Story: She may not have been gay, but Noi Chudnoff was most definitely a member of the local GLBT community. With her Go Mama Go! boutique on 14th Street NW generating income, she passed it along to various philanthropic efforts, such as the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, Whitman-Walker Clinic and the N Street Village. She was intimately involved with Ganymeade ArtsActors' Theatre of Washington, on whose board she served as president. When...http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=3578 Marvelous: For the Hulk reboot, director Louis Leterrier wipes the slate clean -- and it's a damn good thing he does- June 12, 2008 Film: Wait a minute. Didn't they just make The Incredible Hulk into a movie Why yes, yes they did. The difference with the new version, however, is that it's actually good. Ang Lee has directed some incredible movies, but his 2003 version, simply titled Hulk, was not one of them. Director Louis Leterrier wipes the slate clean for his update -- and it's a damn good thing he does. The first thing that distinguishes Leterrier's film of Marvel's popular comic book property is that it assumes you...http://www.metroweekly.com/arts_entertainment/film.php?ak=3564 Sean Bugg: Capital Pride Heroes 2008- June 12, 2008 Feature Story: Writing about federal tax issues upon coming to Washington in 1989 with a journalism degree did not suck the life out of Sean Bugg. But it didn't fulfill him, either. It was in the early 1990s when Bugg, a Kentucky native, followed his growing anger over the AIDS crisis into involvement with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UPDC), activists committed to direct action in ending the AIDS crisis. Sean Bugg ''It was a very extraordinary time to be an activist,'' Bugg says,...http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=3579 Latin Infused: Dan Guerrero's one-man show, 'Gaytino!'- June 12, 2008 Stage: Before Dan Guerrero even wrote a one-man show detailing his experiences as a gay Latino in show business, he promptly trademarked the show's title. ''My momma didn't raise no fool,'' he says with a chuckle, explaining his ownership of the term ''Gaytino.'' His father, legendary Chicano musician Lalo Guerrero, didn't either. ''When I said that word,'' Guerrero recounts telling his famous father before he died, ''he bolted up in his chair and said, 'Mijo, my son, that's your future!''' Dan.http://www.metroweekly.com/arts_entertainment/stage.php?ak=3566 Pride at 33: Washington, DC's 2008 Capital Pride Week for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people- June 12, 2008 Feature Story: Prides come and prides go, but the basic idea remains the same. Namely, that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people continue to make their mark in the world -- and that's always a reason to celebrate. This year's Capital Pride celebration marks 33 years of Pride for the Washington area. The annual parade and festival still provide the cap for a weeklong series of events that showcase every aspect of the diverse GLBT community. The Capital Pride Heroes Awards honor those...http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=3580 Perfectly Clear: Edward Gero succeeds in embodying Nixon with a performance that actually makes the man likable in his hideousness- June 12, 2008 Stage: If you have ever glanced in the window of one of those stately old D.C. pastry shops, the kind where the display of multi-tier cakes and petit-fours looks like it hasn't changed in decades, you may have caught the vibe. It's that flashback to dark ties, white shirts, Cold War woes and perfect meringues, that ghost of Washington past that lives on in PBS regurgitations redolent with the horror of nuclear war and the kind of nostalgia that only fuzzy color photos can induce. Well, if such..http://www.metroweekly.com/arts_entertainment/stage.php?ak=3568 Battlefield Montgomery: Support garnered from Equality Maryland- June 12, 2008 Gauge: Equality Maryland announced June 10 that it has raised $50,000 to support Basic Rights Montgomery, a coalition formed to preserve the county's transgender anti-discrimination law. The law resulted from the Montgomery County Council's unanimous passage in November of a bill that added ''gender identity'' as a protected category to the county's anti-discrimination laws. A group of residents, Citizens for Responsible Government (CRG), collected more than the 25,001 required signatures to...http://www.metroweekly.com/gauge/?ak=3558 The Happy Homo: Commentary: Stonewall Baby- June 12, 2008 Commentary: A few weeks ago, I wrote a Mother's Day tribute to women who, aside from my mother, have had pivotal, maternal influence on me. I also guessed in that column that there would be some ''ex-gay'' backlash since I wrote about being closer to my mother than to my father. Sure enough, local ex-gay champion Sharon Kass felt a need to reach out: ''Your article, 'I Want My Mommy,' in the May 15 issue of Metro Weekly describes the classic family triangle that produces homosexual sons. ......http://www.metroweekly.com/gauge/commentary.php?ak=3563 Parental Rights: Virginia makes a good decision regarding lesbian custody dispute- June 12, 2008 Gauge: Equal rights advocates in Virginia praised the Virginia Supreme Court's Friday, June 6, decision securing a non-biological mother's visitation rights to her 6-year-old daughter. The decision involves former partners Janet Jenkins and Lisa Miller. According to an Equality Virginia press release, the decision ''affirms that federal and state laws governing child custody disputes apply equally to GLBT families.'' The two women entered a Vermont civil union in 2000, and Miller gave birth to..http://www.metroweekly.com/gauge/?ak=3559 |