Columns
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The Time Is Now
For 17 years, the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' (DADT) law has been a major barrier on the road to equality for the 65,000 gay and...
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Strangely Familiar
With the capture of Ted Kennedy's Senate seat — sorry, I mean the people of Massachusetts' Senate seat — by Republican Scott Brown, Washington is...
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Unpacking the Numbers
As a survivor of violence and a lesbian trans woman in a world that treats my identity as delusional or deceptive, I understand fear. I...
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Meanwhile, in Senegal
The global outcry against Uganda's ''Anti-Homosexuality Bill'' could not be more deafening. Opponents of the legislation have condemned the effort not just to put gays...
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Financial Ally to Evil
Televangelist Pat Robertson's claim that the Haitian earthquake was divine retribution for a two-century-old pact with the devil, even as he purported to raise relief...
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Lights, Camera, Inaction
We are a nation that likes to watch, be it hundreds of cable channels filled with talking heads, YouTube videos of cute kids and keyboard...
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Continuing Education
Particularly around the holidays, we are ceaselessly implored to have conversations with our families about our sexual orientation. Ditch that reindeer sweater for a Task...
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On Being First
''Being the first sucks,'' Amanda Simpson, one of the first openly trans appointments to a federal government position, told ABC News. ''I'd rather not be...
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Free To Be
The recent advertisement on Metrobuses calling for a referendum to repeal the District's hard-won legislation guaranteeing marriage equality was many things. It was an egregious...
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Coming Out Conservative
In mid-February thousands of conservatives will descend on D.C. for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference -- better known as CPAC -- the premiere political...
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Feedback Farrago
One of the interesting sidelights of being a writer and activist is the correspondence I receive. So I spent a few hours on a wintry...
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History's Hobby
If history has a hobby, it's making those who assume to know its course look foolish. At the close of the last decade, somewhat weary...
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Searching for Dialogue
It seems that the issue of relations between the LGBT community and the black community has remained contentious. It's even more problematic if you toss...
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Historic Harvest
A blizzard began in Washington on Dec. 18, several hours after Mayor Adrian Fenty signed the marriage-equality bill in historic All Souls Unitarian Church. Nearly...
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Life Changes
Waiting in line on Monday night to have our photo taken with President and Mrs. Obama at the White House press holiday party, one of...
