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Metro Weekly, Feb. 28, 2013

Bernhard with a Vengeance

By Will O'Bryan On March 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Interviews

Sandra Bernhard is keeping it raw and real, entertaining and ironic, and she’s eager as ever to critique the status quo.

Interview by Will O’Bryan. Published Feb. 28, 2013, Metro Weekly.

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Michael Triplett, courtesy NLGJA

Remembering NLGJA’s Michael Triplett

By Will O'Bryan On February 9, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In News

Lisa Carter is speaking as a nurse when she recalls the end of her brother’s life Jan. 17, a final act likely drawn out because of Michael Triplett’s constitution. ”He had a strong heart,” she says. As Triplett’s sister,…

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Johnny Skandros, photographed by Todd Franson

Zero Feet Away

By Will O'Bryan On February 9, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Interviews

In December 2011, Johnny Skandros, aka ”Johnny Scruff,” turned 30, a threshold that consumes some gay men. ”I was working on Scruff,” says the co-founder of the popular mobile-phone application. ”I’ve just been kind of going nonstop. It didn’t even dawn…

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Mayor Vincent Gray, photographed by Julian Vankim

Mayor Vincent Gray reflects on the International AIDS Conference

By Will O'Bryan On July 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Interviews

In 2008, during the XVII International AIDS Conference, held in Mexico City, one speaker helped set the tone. Ron MacInnis, a D.C. local, who was working as the director of policy and programs at the International AIDS Society (IAS), organizer…

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Faith in Family

By Will O'Bryan On July 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Opinion

When I married my husband, I got a ceremony, a ring, a certificate, a honeymoon and a commitment. Oh! And a swell dinner at Restaurant Nora and a bottle of Dom Perignon. I also got a mother-in-law.

Opinion by Will O’Bryan.…

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Mayor Gray (front), Chad Griffin, photo by Will O'Bryan

D.C. Mayor Signs Bullying Bill

By Will O'Bryan On July 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In News

With the City Council’s unanimous passage of the Youth Bullying Prevention Act of 2012 earlier this month, this morning saw Act 2, as Mayor Vincent Gray (D) signed the bill into law – 30-day congressional review notwithstanding – before a…

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Chef Art Smith, photographed by Kipling Swehlaopener

Art of Living

By Will O'Bryan On July 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Interviews

When it comes to home, Chef Art Smith might say north Florida, where he was born, or Chicago, his adopted home where he lives with his husband, artist Jesus Salgueiro. But like his neighbors in Chicago’s Hyde Park/Kenwood neighborhood, the Obamas,…

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Lizz Winstead, photographed by Mindy Tucker

Lizzbian Power

By Will O'Bryan On July 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Interviews

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’ air-guitar contest in her native Minneapolis. The mechanical…

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Sarah Smiles

By Will O'Bryan On May 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In News

As April turned to May, change was afoot on D.C.’s American University campus. For starters, April 30 marked the end of Student Government President Tim McBride’s term. The next day, The Eagle, AU’s student newspaper, featured a column from the outgoing president…

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Checked Out

By Will O'Bryan On April 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In News

On one hand, the Library of Congress is the institution that houses a large portion of the late gay-rights icon Frank Kameny’s legacy – despite criticism from anti-gay activists. It’s a federal institution that since 2009 has celebrated LGBT pride in June. On…

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