Columns
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Let's Take a Break from Chick-fil-A
I'm sure everyone had the same thought as I did this weekend upon hearing the news that New York City tabloids were splashing a picture...
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Paul Ryan's Parasites
The 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged is a grandiosity in service of an ideology, rather like the Mormon temple in Silver Spring that inspired jokesters to...
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Queer the Smear
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...
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Hater, Heal Thyself
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...
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Playing Chicken
Based on my television, Web browsing and Facebook feed — the 21st century trinity of staying ''informed'' — the entire world appears to have to...
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Cops vs. Condoms
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...
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Caution and Optimism
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...
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Pro Homo
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...
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True Talk
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...
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International Flights
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...
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Pretty Pretty Bang Bang
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...
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What's in a Name?
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...
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The GOP's Grand Seizure
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...
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Life in Coopersville
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...
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Don't Stop Believing
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...
