Columns
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Obama's Tiresome Rhetorical Trick
We all have our rhetorical tics and tricks. For example, mine include the excessive use of clauses such as ''however,'' ''actually'' and ''for example.'' I...
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Turning Point Reached
When some of us say the LGBT movement has reached a turning point, others object. We are not finished, they say, confusing ''turning point'' for...
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Diversity and Unity
I am originally from Usulután, El Salvador, where I founded Mi Nueva Familia, a working group for fellow transgender women living with HIV. Almost four...
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Family Affairs
For last year's Capital Pride Parade, I brought along my 12-year-old nephew. So in the interest of equality, this year I brought along my 12-year-old...
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Statutory Sunshine State
As a former Floridian, I went into the Capital Pride weekend feeling particularly proud of Hillsborough County, Fla. On Wednesday, June 5, the seven-member Board...
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Mixing Up the Message
All's fair in love and war and, increasingly, politics. That's not an endorsement of, say, the current Republican political strategy of just making things up...
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Work Ahead for Marriage
When the Illinois marriage-equality bill was not brought up for a vote on May 31, anti-gay obsessives like Brian Brown of National Organization for Marriage...
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Backlash to the Future
France is such a strange country. I don't say that from first-hand experience of strolling the streets of Paris — my only brief time there...
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Beyond the Border
When you think of the ongoing battle for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, intersex (LGBTI) rights, which activists stand out in your mind? My guess is...
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Black Pride Reckoning
Around this time, I generally find myself reflecting on recent events that have impacted the black LGBT community, not only in Washington, but around the...
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The Crazy Uncle Party
New York novelist Dawn Powell wrote on the cusp of World War II, ''Civilization stood on a ledge, and in the tension of waiting it...
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How To Be Gay
I've been many different gay men over the course of my life. Like most of us, I started off as the closeted gay man who...
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The Search Must Continue
As HIV-vaccine trial participants, we grow accustomed to the routine blood draws, interacting with study staff and taking our computer-assisted interviews that catalog our risks....
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Creating Space
It was just over five-and-a-half years ago that I first brought the idea of the Next Generation Awards to Metro Weekly. Because I happen to...
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A Star Is Born
Jason Collins is not the first active professional athlete to come out. Tennis star Martina Navratilova came out in 1981. Her courageous act, however, was...
