The first requirements of activism and leadership are drive, desire and commitment. As a city and region that draws people brimming with just those qualities,...
When it comes to laying blame for a lack of progress on LGBT equality, activists aren't just focusing on President Barack Obama and Congress....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...