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  • Queer the Smear

    By on August 8, 2012

    It is absolutely no secret that I have a foul mouth, a propensity for profanity that goes beyond those within earshot and often ends up...

  • Hater, Heal Thyself

    By on August 8, 2012

    Bryon Widner is the subject of a recent documentary, Erasing Hate. Widner, once a racist skinhead, tattooed himself to make his disposition clear. The documentary...

  • Playing Chicken

    By on August 2, 2012

    Based on my television, Web browsing and Facebook feed — the 21st century trinity of staying ''informed'' — the entire world appears to have to...

  • Cops vs. Condoms

    By on August 2, 2012

    One message emerging from last week's AIDS 2012 conference in Washington was that an AIDS-free generation is within sight, if only we muster the will...

  • Caution and Optimism

    By on July 26, 2012

    Having worked for many years to address the AIDS epidemic, especially among gay and bisexual men, I find it enormously inspiring to see thousands of...

  • Pro Homo

    By on July 26, 2012

    I've been a professional homosexual since 1993. I don't mean that I was an escort, although that probably would have paid better than my job...

  • True Talk

    By on July 19, 2012

    Back when I was still a young HIV-prevention worker in the long-ago 1990s, I came across a new campaign for gay men that had launched...

  • International Flights

    By on July 19, 2012

    The end of America's HIV immigration ban has allowed the XIX International AIDS Conference to be held in Washington. This welcome change reminds me of...

  • Pretty Pretty Bang Bang

    By on July 12, 2012

    So here we were, just an hour since our arrival at my sister's home in oh-so-rural Kentucky. Cavin and I brought our nephew, Andrew, here...

  • What's in a Name?

    By on July 12, 2012

    In the late 1980s, epidemiologists adopted the expression ''men having sex with men'' to categorize routes of HIV transmission, to acknowledge that not all such...

  • The GOP's Grand Seizure

    By on July 5, 2012

    A fast-moving line of violent thunderstorms known as a derecho hit Washington after nightfall the day after the Supreme Court upheld most of the Affordable...

  • Life in Coopersville

    By on July 3, 2012

    Naturally, I already knew that Anderson Cooper was gay, for a number of reasons. First, I work in Washington as a journalist, an industry of...

  • Don't Stop Believing

    By on June 28, 2012

    There was a point in my life when I thought nothing could have more meaning than music. Specifically, during my teenage years in high school...

  • Stonewall Baby

    By on June 28, 2012

    A birthday is bound to prompt a reflection on the arc of one's life. For me, turning 43 on June 29, when I look at...

  • Home Game

    By on June 21, 2012

    Walking around the upper deck of the Nationals stadium on Tuesday night with friends at Team DC's Night out at the Nationals, a few thoughts...