All posts by Sean Bugg
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“Die Fag!”: Openly gay California vice-mayor accosted at Oktoberfest
“At the time it felt like it wasn’t real. … In hindsight, maybe I should’ve been more cautious, but it didn’t kick in.” Evan Low,...
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Obama and Romney Get Passes on LGBT Questions
One thing we learned on Tuesday night — or relearned, since every election cycle of the past 20 years has taught the same lesson —...
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Fields of Dreams
If there's anything that illustrates the difference between men and women — and, by extension, gay men and lesbians — it's sports. I do not...
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His Brother's Keeper
''If you can play, you can play.'' It's a simple statement that, on the surface, seems like basic common sense. But for LGBT athletes who...
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Hateful Times
I dearly want to write a horrible and mean and nasty column about the race-baiting journalistic train wreck of Tucker Carlson, but it's been done...
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''But What's Obama Done for Me Lately?''
Given the ongoing efforts of Republicans to establish stringent voter ID laws to eradicate a fraudulent voting problem — a problem that even the laws'...
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Team DC: Rowing and Volleyball [video]
Martha Bass and James Breau explain the benefits of joining crew, while Kyle Chavers tells how he got to be part of DC Strokes Rowing...
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One Year Later, DADT Repeal Resonates
Back in 1992, the height of my activist period, there were two main issues I cared about: HIV/AIDS and military service. AIDS was, and remains,...
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A Sailor's Life, No Longer at Sea
At first glance, you can easily spot qualities that mark Chief Petty Officer Ronnie Ratliff as a Navy man, beyond the close-cropped hair. There's the...
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Romney and Ryan: How Low Can They Go?
It's a reflexive statement that has effectively passed into cliché, but when gay Republicans say that gay people aren't ''single-issue'' voters they have a point,...
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NFL player re-assures Maryland Del. Burns that gay marriage won’t turn him into a “lusting cockmonster”
“I can assure you that gay people getting married will have zero effect on your life. They won’t come into your house and steal your...
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Michelle Obama and the Democrats Go All-In
A week in politics truly is an eternity. Just a few days ago, as supporters of LGBT equality and women's choice excoriated the Republican Party...
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The Oddly Un-American Republican Convention
It was truly my intention not to watch any live coverage of the current Republican national convention — or, for that matter, next week's Democratic...
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Dana Milbank Mainstreams Hate
It was only a few days ago that the world of Washington politics and punditry was in its most self-congratulatory mode: Politics was about to...
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Anti-gay slogans on display at FRC’s press conference claiming they are not a “hate group”
One day after a Virginia man is alleged to have shot a security guard at the D.C. headquarters of the anti-gay Family Research Council,...
