Columns
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Pulling the Lever
My first time going to vote was with my mother, a recollection that's gauzy enough to indicate that it was probably somewhere around 1974. The...
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Kramer vs. Everyone
Larry Kramer has kept his Cassandra act going for an awfully long time. To summarize: Why aren't you angrier? Why aren't you in the streets?...
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Look Back in Anger
If I had to choose the aspect of my own writing I like least, it would be my tendency to delve into optimistic cheerleading. The...
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Billions of Babies
Humanity has marked another milestone. We've not gone on to Mars or figured out how to create endless, cheap energy. Rather, our biologically programmed horniness...
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Out With It
For those of us who've been out for years, the delicate dance of the semi-closeted celebrity can be infuriating. The dance features a number of...
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Kameny in Combat
My first direct experience of Frank Kameny's combative style came during a gay rights debate that I arranged at Villanova University in March 1978 for...
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Golden Years
I've been thinking a lot lately about aging, mostly because it's something my body seems to be rapidly doing. Of course, much of this obsession...
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Students First
If a gay Ayn Rand club were to hold some sort of D.C. confab and I covered it, they could well come back and cry...
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The Right's Food Fight
Last weekend's Values Voter Summit was welcomed to D.C. by the Southern Poverty Law Center with a full-page ad in The Washington Post titled, ''Just...
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Frank Kameny Wins
In the sad hours that followed the Tuesday evening news that the legendary and indomitable Frank Kameny had died in his home at the age...
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Shared History
My first trips to D.C. while I was still a college student in southwestern Virginia were particularly strong indicators of what a country boy I...
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Memory Lanes
Memories are the sorts of things that get easily tangled with the passage of time. Over the past few years, I've spent more time going...
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Right's Populist Fakery
For all the talk of ''what the American people want,'' Republican candidates are pushing a lot of things that polls show most people do not...
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A Mission Accomplished
In some ways, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011, seemed a bit anticlimactic for a historic day in gay and lesbian history. Yes there were parties, yes...
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Ya Got Trouble
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is always having to change the subject. First it was his health care reform law, which inspired President Obama's. Now...
