Lucas Silveira hated the sound of his own voice. He’d fronted a group of Canadian alt-rockers called the Cliks since 2004, and he’d sung, screeched and swaggered into the hearts and iPods of angsty queers all across the continent with the help of his hypnotic stage presence and signature eyebrow tilt. But every time the [...]

D.C. is known for a lot of things—fratty happy hours, endless traffic, swampy summers—but trans-inclusivity has never been one of them. Transfolks, particularly transwomen, have long been targeted for violent attacks all across the city, and the MPD has all but turned a blind eye. Some local press outlets have straight-up ignored the hate crimes, [...]

Between breathless reviews of Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime performance, shaky “It Gets Better” videos and rants against Prop 8, mainstream queer blogs can be more trite than transgressive. White, cisgendered males dominate online dialogue in LGBTQ spaces, and there seems to be little room for niche sexualities, gender nonconformity and the kind of boundary-pushing art [...]

Saturday night DC’s Phase 1 will be over-run with a multitude of queer bands. Several local groups—Lost Bois, Angie Head, SolRose—will be opening for the two touring artists Constance Sisk of Virginia, and Eli Conley all the way from California’s Berkeley. Conley, a classically trained singer, describes his sound as “country-tinged folk with a queer [...]