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  • A Wish for 2013

    By on January 3, 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...

  • Courtside for Marriage

    By on January 3, 2013

    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...

  • Anonymous Attacks

    By on December 27, 2012

    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...

  • A Mixed Bag

    By on December 26, 2012

    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...

  • Stein Club Point/Counterpoint: Jeri Hughes

    By on December 21, 2012

    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...

  • Stein Club Point/Counterpoint: Earl Fowlkes Jr.

    By on December 21, 2012

    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...

  • Sane Choices Start at Home

    By on December 20, 2012

    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...

  • Deadly Romance

    By on December 17, 2012

    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...

  • Congratulations, Coverboys

    By on December 13, 2012

    During my pre-Metro Weekly years, I would pick up an issue and go straight to Coverboy Confidential. I still read it, of course, but now...

  • Cities of Refuge

    By on December 6, 2012

    On the night of Dec. 1, members of Light Brigade Maryland, joined by members of GetEqual DC and the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA),...

  • The Waiting Game

    By on December 5, 2012

    So, after weeks and months of careful consideration, voluminous reading and personal consultations with friends and family, I'm finally ready to make an important announcement:...

  • The Naked Truth

    By on November 29, 2012

    Had you asked me a few years back what I thought were the advantages of being half of a gay, childless couple, I'm pretty sure...

  • Family at Cliffside

    By on November 22, 2012

    The greatest contribution of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln is that it shows our 16th president not marching majestically toward Mount Rushmore, but deeply immersed in the...

  • Days Go By

    By on November 15, 2012

    Soap operas were a kind of omnipresent force of entertainment during my youth. Many of them are long gone by now, distant memories for aging...

  • Welcome to Missibama

    By on November 15, 2012

    As we move into the holiday season, imagine a Southern town square with a resplendent Nativity scene on some warm December evening. Nearby, lights shine...