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  • Truly Yours

    By on June 26, 2002

    Dear Lena, A guy I dated recently was really weirded out when I sent him a gift two-and-a-half weeks into the relationship. He couldn't understand...

  • Lypsinka Speaks!

    By on June 19, 2002

    To say that John Epperson is the ''Pride of Mississippi'' probably wouldn't be the most accurate of statements. Now, that's not to disparage Epperson's estimable...

  • The Words of Tammy Faye

    By on June 5, 2002

    What is it that gays love about Tammy Faye Bakker-Messner? Is it her camp value? Her perky, love-gushing way with words? Is it her unbridled...

  • Truly Yours

    By on June 5, 2002

    Dear Lena, I'm white, but I only date Asian men. My friends call me racist. I say it's just personal preference. What do you think?...

  • Post Gay

    By on May 29, 2002

    A bit of clarification: This is a story about Hank Stuever, a Washington Post Style section writer who, as it happens, is a gay man....

  • Words of Caushun

    By on May 22, 2002

    Collectively, rap and hip-hop artists have pretty much cornered the market on gay bashing. There's DMX's vibrantly visual ''Well in the back wit ya faggot...

  • Bar Quest

    By on May 15, 2002

    The martini's iconic status has elevated it almost to the point of cliché. Sean Connery made ''shaken, not stirred'' 007's very identity. Lauren Bacall never...

  • Language of Love

    By on May 8, 2002

    Irish author Jamie O'Neill flips intently through the pages of a book. Though it's his own novel, At Swim, Two Boys, and he knows every...

  • Non-Political Parties

    By on April 24, 2002

    Popular belief says that DJs should pick a musical niche and stick with it because association with a particular style makes them memorable. Roland Belmares...

  • Babes in Boyland

    By on April 24, 2002

    Susan Morabito is different, and the double X chromosomes aren't the extent of it. As one of the circuit's most sought-after DJs, she's carved out...

  • Hard News

    By on April 17, 2002

    When A&P groceries transferred Don Michaels to Buffalo, New York in 1968, it was an unlikely link in a chain of events that made the...

  • Between the Lines

    By on April 17, 2002

    Quick! What's the definition of transgender? Well, it's anyone who was born as a man but considers themselves to be a woman, or vice versa....

  • Dishing It Out

    By on April 10, 2002

    If ever there were a poster boy for globalization's best-case scenario, Ali Shirazinia would certainly be it. He left the town of his birth --...

  • Chad Allen

    By on April 10, 2002

    ''Long before I made the decision to come out and be an openly gay actor,'' says Chad Allen, ''I was told, 'Don't do it until...

  • Life of the Party

    By on April 3, 2002

    In a town where more bigwigs sit on congressional committees than big wigs sit on heads, where party lines can be longer on the Hill...

  • Rocket Man

    By on March 27, 2002

    Of all the places you'd expect to find one of theatre's brightest young luminaries, Shirlington isn't one of them. We're not even talking about ''fancy''...

  • Classical Figure

    By on March 27, 2002

    Michael Kahn hates the legacy question. You can tell by the way he shifts in his office chair on this brisk Tuesday evening. ''I don't...

  • Republican AIDS Czar Scott Evertz

    By on March 20, 2002

    That Scott Evertz is an openly gay man with a job in a Republican administration isn't the most surprising thing. The most surprising thing is...

  • Blurring the Lines

    By on March 13, 2002

    Way back in the late 1980s, a flurry of novels by young writers heralded what was seen by many as a new gay wave in...

  • Sandra Bernhard

    By on February 27, 2002

    How does one forge a personality as strong and unique as Sandra Bernhard's? It may have had something to do with her upbringing, first in...