In this week's paper, Mike Debonis—City Paper's Loose Lips columnist—suggested that D.C. voters write-in at-large Council candidate Carol Schwartz on November 4th. The Washington Blade's pretty into her, too. Today, Schwartz's chief of staff and deputy committee clerk, both openly gay, penned an opinion piece for the newspaper touting Schwartz's leadership in the GLBT community.

Today, we sew up the media bracket in the D.C.'s Manliest Workplace Tournament with two of the Districts alternative weeklies: The Washington City Paper and the Washington Blade. Earlier in the media contest, the Washington Times out-manlied Washingtonian, the Washington Post pwned Congressional Quarterly, and El Pregonero fell to USA today. Check out the full [...]

Metro Weekly fronts its election round-up this week, reporting on gay issues in the District, Maryland, and Virginia races. In "Outing the Vote," Will O'Bryan sums up election day for GLBT wonks: "For politically minded locals," he writes, "Tuesday, Nov. 4, is the Super Bowl, World Series and American Idol finale, all rolled into one—on [...]