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  • Get Rational

    By on April 29, 2010

    Get Equal, which specializes in direct actions like heckling our allies with demands for Total Equality Right Now, has at least one like-minded boor in...

  • Turn Back Time

    By on April 21, 2010

    It's true. If you hang around Washington long enough you'll get to see history repeat itself. Back in the early 1990s, the LGBT community started...

  • Modern Mirage

    By on April 21, 2010

    Maybe you went to a bittersweet party to watch the final episode of HBO's Sex and the City. Did you hit the theater eagerly the...

  • Whistling Dixie

    By on April 15, 2010

    It was just a few weeks ago that, while rummaging through the piles of past issues as part of my ongoing project of organizing my...

  • The Legitimacy Lie

    By on April 15, 2010

    March was a heady month in the District of Columbia. The influx of same-sex couples at the marriage bureau boosted applications to six times their...

  • Heaven and Hell

    By on April 7, 2010

    If there's still any wonder why America's high schools are a simultaneous case of heaven and hell for teenagers, look no further than the latest...

  • Surprised by Parenting

    By on April 7, 2010

    This weekend, I'm heading to my second baby shower -- my first for a gay family. This is not what I expected. First, I'm old...

  • Second Act

    By on March 31, 2010

    I'll admit it — when I first heard the news of Ricky Martin's coming out, I greeted it with the mental equivalent of a yawn....

  • Time to Step Up

    By on March 31, 2010

    Thousand-dollar-a-plate dinners are like abortions or same-sex marriages: If you don't approve of them, don't have one. We all make choices based on our views,...

  • All Hands on Deck

    By on March 24, 2010

    Nothing highlights the rifts in our community like the possibility of success. Infighting and disagreements over the direction and tactics of the movement for LGBT...

  • Immigration Insult

    By on March 24, 2010

    It's been busy in Washington lately. An ENDA sit-in, White House arrests for DADT, marriage equality, Kathy Griffin, the tea-baggers' return, health care in Congress,...

  • Doctor, Doctor

    By on March 17, 2010

    Back in the very early 1990s, not long after college and in the depths of my great post-collegiate career crisis — fancy speak for ''educated...

  • Vatican's Past Imperfect

    By on March 17, 2010

    Pope Benedict XVI has been beset by matters of the flesh lately, from the growing sexual-abuse scandal in Germany to the revelation that a member...

  • Seniors in the Spotlight

    By on March 17, 2010

    It's been another big news week for LGBT aging. An Associated Press story released Monday on coming out late in life; the SAGE/Movement Advancement Project...

  • Political Proof

    By on March 11, 2010

    Just to be clear about this before I start: I was appalled that Bob McDonnell could be elected governor of Virginia and absolutely horrified the...