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	<title>The Crazy Uncle Party: From E&#46;W&#46; Jackson to Peggy Noonan&#44; right&#39;s gone off the rails</title>
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Opinion: New York novelist Dawn Powell wrote on the cusp of World War II&#44; &#34;Civilization stood on a ledge&#44; and in the tension of waiting it was a relief to have one little man jump&#46;&#34; Alas&#44; these days the crazy ones don&#39;t jump off ledges&#44; they get elected to Congress&#46; Our national politics increasingly resembles a party in which your crazy uncle got hold of the karaoke microphone and won&#39;t give it back until he finishes a paranoid rant&#46; Maybe if you pour him another Manhattan&#44; he&#39;ll pass out before all your guests leave&#46; The crazy uncles have taken over the Republican Party&#46; You might be able to get rid of some of them if you could require runoffs in primary elections&#44; but good luck getting that reform through the state legislature&#46; The crazies have a devoted constituency&#44; and Fox News is their microphone&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Black Pride Reckoning: Annual event compels us to demand justice</title>
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Opinion: Around this time&#44; I generally find myself reflecting on recent events that have impacted the black LGBT community&#44; not only in Washington&#44; but around the world&#46; DC Black Pride unofficially kicks off the summer Black Pride season&#46; And while we are a party with a purpose&#44; there are serious issues that we have to address whenever we come together as a community &#38;ndash&#59; and we do&#33; Earl Fowlkes ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>How To Be Gay: In which Bret Easton Ellis is totally correct to defend his right to be such a prick</title>
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Opinion: I&#39;ve been many different gay men over the course of my life&#46; Like most of us&#44; I started off as the closeted gay man who sometimes overcompensated with my behavior so I wouldn&#39;t appear feminine&#46; I&#39;ve also been the newly out gay man who overcompensated in the other direction and spent more than a few months flouncing around campus in misbegotten Chess King outfits&#46; I&#39;ve been the activist gay man&#44; with the meta twist that I posed as the activist gay man in the old Unofficial Gay Manual&#46; I&#39;ve been a party&#45;focused gay man who transitioned into a respectably professional gay man&#46; These days I&#39;m a suburban gay man who occasionally dallies in being the &#39;&#39;I&#39;m at a bar reliving my youth&#39;&#39; gay man&#46; In effect&#44; there is no one way to be gay&#46; That doesn&#39;t stop some people from insisting there is&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>The Search Must Continue: Halted HIV&#45;vaccine trial may be a setback&#44; but it&#39;s not a defeat</title>
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Opinion: As HIV&#45;vaccine trial participants&#44; we grow accustomed to the routine blood draws&#44; interacting with study staff and taking our computer&#45;assisted interviews that catalog our risks&#46; And&#44; of course&#44; the risk&#45;reduction counseling to help us reduce our sexual risk&#45;taking behavior&#46; For almost three years this quarterly experience was a part of my life&#46; It was a piece of my routine until I received a phone call that changed it all&#46; It was an unexpected end to something that I thought I&#39;d still have years more to be engaged with&#46; Two weeks ago I found out that the trial&#39;s independent safety board recommended stopping immunizations because the experimental HIV vaccine was not showing any signs that it would be effective in the prevention of HIV infection&#46; Nor would the candidate vaccine help a person to better manage the virus should they become positive&#46; The HVTN 505 study began in 2009 and was testing an investigational vaccine&#46; The U&#46;S&#46;&#45;based trial enrolled gay&#44; bisexual and men who have sex with men&#44; as well as transgender women&#46; The trial was the only large&#45;scale vaccine study in world&#46; Matthew Rose ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>A Star Is Born: He may not be the first&#44; but Jason Collins is a pioneer just the same</title>
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Opinion: Jason Collins is not the first active professional athlete to come out&#46; Tennis star Martina Navratilova came out in 1981&#46; Her courageous act&#44; however&#44; was no threat to male heterosexual dominance&#46; Few people even know that baseball player Glenn Burke came out in the late 1970s&#44; because sports writers at the time responded with a wall of silence&#46; Most recently&#44; top WNBA draft pick Brittney Griner came out on April 17&#46; The girls are way ahead of the boys here&#46; None of this diminishes the import of what happened when Collins came out in Sports Illustrated on April 29&#46; It was a game changer&#46; As Martina said&#44; it &#34;will save lives&#46;&#34; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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