All posts by Sean Bugg
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NBA player adds voice to campaign for gay marriage in New York
“I spend my summers in New York and I love playing at the Garden. A growing number of professional athletes are speaking out in support...
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Sporting Chances
Back in the days when Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova were making news as professional tennis players who were lesbian, I was still a...
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Generation Next
As I was showing off this week's cover to a group of colleagues, one of them asked me to tell them about this year's Next...
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Sports agent tweets attack on hockey star Sean Avery’s support for gay marriage
“Very sad to read Sean Avery’s misguided support of same-gender “marriage”. Legal or not, it will always be wrong. … To clarify. This is not hatred...
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Blake Shelton apologizes for tweet, calls anti-gay violence “unacceptable”
“@glaad hey I want my fans and @nbcthevoice fans to know that anti-gay and lesbian violence is unacceptable!!!!!” Blake Shelton, country music star and celebrity...
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Living Memories
Last summer while I was playing tennis with a friend on an Arlington public court, a troop of elementary-school kids took over the surrounding courts...
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Seasonal Change
While next week may be the official 17th anniversary of Metro Weekly, this week actually marks the 17th year of working on the magazine. It...
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King & Spalding to “Withdraw” From Defense of DOMA
King and Spalding, the...
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Majority Rules
For those with even a passing acquaintance with the actions and rhetoric of anti-gay organizations and activists, it's rarely surprising to see just how low...
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Out on the Farm
It started simply, as these things go. Manhattanites Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge felt the lure of a weekend place in the country, a place...
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Spiffing Up for Spring
When we need to center ourselves or achieve a feeling of inner calm, we take a deep breath and slowly let it out. Your home...
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Gaming the System
In the Kodachrome memories of my youth, I'm sprawled on the brown shag carpet of the living room in front of the Zenith floor-model television,...
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Don't Stop
If I were to create a list of things about which I never wanted to write about again, ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' would be right...
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Hope Roller Coaster
Generally, I look for proof of the imminence of April Fools' Day in friendly pranks at the office, goofy headlines and news parodies. That's where...
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Making Things Better
These days when we think of the phrase ''it gets better,'' we think of recent efforts to give hope to LGBT youth that as they...
