All posts by Sean Bugg
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Having a Hellish Time, Wish You Were Here
It's not that bad going to hell. In fact, it's a hell of a lot of fun, especially when you get to kill demons. Lots...
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God Only Knows
It can be a challenge, being the nonbeliever in a relationship with someone who's devout. If I believed in such things, I would have to...
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Launching Pride
Back in the younger years of DC's Black Pride celebration, I was coordinating HIV-prevention outreach efforts with one of my black co-workers at Whitman-Walker Clinic....
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The Rot on the Right
When Tracy Thorne, a Navy fighter pilot, came out of the closet on live television to Nightline's Ted Koppel in 1992, it was a defining...
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Scenes from North Carolina
''Watch out for copperheads.'' That seems to be my earliest memory of North Carolina, a casual warning that I don't recall the context for but...
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Generation Now
Eighteen years old may seem young for a human being, but it seems pretty old for a magazine. This issue of Metro Weekly is the...
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Backward Glances
Some large portion of the collective Democratic mind will always see the world as if it's still 1993. That's when the backlash against President Bill...
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Stick in the Eye
Whether or not we are hard-core political junkies, most of us in the LGBT community share some common understandings about politics as it relates to...
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Privilege Matters
That I've had a lot of experience of casual racism doesn't come as much of a surprise given my rural Southern background. I grew up...
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Say What We Mean
So Tony Perkins, the longtime bigoted mouthpiece for the rabidly anti-gay Family Research Council, was rather apoplectic this past week over the news that a...
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Mark Bingham’s mother calls out Carson Daly for joke about gays fighting high jackers
“He also was known for careening down the rugby pitch, and, on the morning of September 11, 2001, for charging unarmed down the aisle of...
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A gay father on NOM’s anti-family political strategy
“To me the most striking detail was that NOM had budgeted $120,000 for a project to locate children of gay households willing to denounce their parents on...
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Three Cheers
One philosophy that I'm lucky enough to share with all my co-workers at Metro Weekly is the idea that the work we do is more...
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Pro soccer player Colin Clark apologies for calling ballboy an anti-gay slur
“I’d like to offer a sincere apology to everyone who watched the game, especially the ball boy for whom I used awful language towards.” “I...
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Oldest private military school plans first-ever Gay Pride week celebration
“It’s saying that we as a military community are looking to more to the future, that we’re not quibbling about the past, what was or...
