Columns
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Obama's Invitation to Activism
President Obama's second inaugural address charted a confident mainstream agenda for his second term. In doing so he rebuked hostility toward science, defended the social...
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Obama and the Future Present
Not being a person who's into large crowds, I didn't trek down to the Capitol on Monday for the Inauguration. If I'm going to watch...
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Clear Harvey Milk Airport for Takeoff
For many, airports are uncomfortable complexes of invasive pat-downs, overpriced sundries and shoeless shuffling. Surly exchanges across countless customer-service counters provide tense white noise between...
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Giglio Illustrates Advance
If you want to be effective as an activist, you learn that everything is not about you. For example, you don't have to be religious...
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The Uncivil War over Jodie Foster
Rather than my usual rambling preamble I'll jump right in because I have limited space and this topic inspires a vomitous number of words: Jodie...
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Haggling over Chuck Hagel
Everything old is new again. What goes around, comes around. Pissing in the wind brings ill returns. There are simply so, so many clichés to...
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Commitment to a Cure
As an emigrant from a developing country in Sub-Saharan Africa, I know firsthand what HIV/AIDS has done to my home country. In 1990, 1992 and...
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A Wish for 2013
While 2012 was a bit of a mixed bag for me from a personal perspective, it was undeniably a remarkable year to be a gay...
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Courtside for Marriage
The fight to expand the definition of family to encompass the diversity of actual families continues in 2013. Legislators in Illinois, Minnesota and Rhode Island...
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Anonymous Attacks
There's a church I've had to name when writing news stories. But since this is merely my opinion, I'm not naming it. I prefer to...
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A Mixed Bag
When it comes down to it, most years really are a mixed bag when it comes to defining them as ''good'' or ''bad.'' A good...
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Stein Club Point/Counterpoint: Jeri Hughes
The Dec. 19 meeting was called in response to irregularities that occurred during the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club's Dec. 3 officer election. Individuals who had...
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Stein Club Point/Counterpoint: Earl Fowlkes Jr.
On Dec. 3 the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club narrowly elected Martin Garcia as president (47-45), Angela Peoples as vice president for political and legislative affairs...
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Sane Choices Start at Home
If I had owned a gun at any point in the past 25 years or so, I would most likely be dead by now. Not...
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Deadly Romance
America's romance with guns, an emblem of our frontier spirit, has claimed its most innocent victims. When shots rang out in Sandy Hook Elementary in...
