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  • Too High a Price

    By on February 22, 2012

    Living in Virginia comes with a price. First, though, there are the benefits, the most important of which is that it makes my husband happy....

  • Violent Words, Violent Acts

    By on February 16, 2012

    CNN commentator Roland Martin was just having a little fun with his now-infamous Super Bowl tweets: ''If a dude at your Super Bowl party is...

  • Hanky Panky

    By on February 15, 2012

    Although most of us shoehorn ourselves into one of the two political parties, at least for purposes of voting, the fit is rarely perfect as...

  • Chuckles for the Win

    By on February 9, 2012

    Perhaps my main disappointment in the Ninth Circuit decision finding California's Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional is that they couldn't wait a week to release...

  • Partners on the Journey

    By on February 9, 2012

    In late January I had the pleasure of celebrating my mother's 80th birthday as we pulled away from Cozumel (all passengers accounted for, thank you...

  • Solitary Confinement

    By on February 2, 2012

    After coming out to my mother during college, she and I entered into one of those melancholy conversations familiar to so many of us who...

  • Dissing the President

    By on February 2, 2012

    ''Get your goddamn finger out of the president's face.'' That was my first thought upon seeing the photo of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) with...

  • Court Time

    By on January 26, 2012

    So my television viewing this past week or so has given me a front-row seat to an intense competition, where the protagonists shift wildly between...

  • DCTC's Chief Problem

    By on January 25, 2012

    The words rolled off her tongue like a well-rehearsed mantra, ''We'd like to see all of those folks who are in that high-risk environment find...

  • Foolish Thing Desire

    By on January 19, 2012

    A few years ago, before I began dating my husband, my then-boyfriend took me to a summer cookout with a local gay Asian group. It...

  • Minister at Midnight

    By on January 19, 2012

    Anthony Evans is an anti-gay minister who claims to head a vast network of black churches and sends me frequent updates on his plans. On...

  • Friendly Fire

    By on January 12, 2012

    ''Some of my best friends are '' is deservedly one of the most mocked phrases in the English language, given that it...

  • Leather in the Lead

    By on January 12, 2012

    There's an axiom of which I never grow tired: Perspective is everything. I think I'm an ethical person; others would cast me into the pits...

  • Raucous Caucus

    By on January 5, 2012

    If nothing else, the Iowa caucuses kicked off the year with an inadvertently entertaining bang. After months of a rotating circus of second-tier candidates taking...

  • Times Square Tantrums

    By on January 5, 2012

    Not since Sinéad O'Connor ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in 1992 have so many believers been so...