The Metro Weekly Man V. The Blade Man
In this week's cover story, I examine the cultural relevance of D.C.'s competing LGBT publications, Metro Weekly and the Washington Blade (now the D.C. Agenda). Are you a Metro Weekly man? Or are you a Blade man? Or are you not an upper-middle-class middle-aged gay man who lives in Northwest Washington D.C., and therefore largely ambivalent? File your allegiances in the comments.
Illustration by Robert Ullman
10:51 am
MW was considered by me to be more of an entertainment publication, not a hard news source and thats the way the publisher presented it. On the other hand the former Blade like to think themselves as a hard news source, but was not. I considered the Blade to be a JOKE!
5:27 pm
"Or are you not an upper-middle-class middle-aged gay man who lives in Northwest Washington D.C., and therefore largely ambivalent?"
Your demographic list omits something. WHITE. I don't know how; your illustrator pointed it out very clearly.
11:51 am
The one bright side of the Blade shutting down is not having to see Peter Rosenstein's drivel commentaries wasting ink and trees.