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  • Historic Harvest

    By on December 23, 2009

    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...

  • Life Changes

    By on December 17, 2009

    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...

  • Hurtling Toward Hope

    By on December 17, 2009

    With the new year and new decade approaching, I realized I hadn't indulged in much retrospection. Then, standing in line at the grocery store, I...

  • How Marriage Happened

    By on December 17, 2009

    This week, the D.C. City Council voted 11-2 to legalize marriages between same-sex couples. This is a milestone for the LGBT movement for a number...

  • Lambda's Last Call

    By on December 9, 2009

    When he opened Lambda Rising bookstore in 1974, Deacon Maccubbin started with $3,000 of his own money and $1,000 he borrowed from Craig Howell of...

  • A Moral Compass

    By on December 2, 2009

    There are all sorts of Catholics. There's Andrew Sullivan. The pope. Newt Gingrich. Sister Jeannine Grammick, that glorious woman who defied the Vatican in her...

  • Opinion: Should a Publicly-Funded Charity Serve the Public?

    By on November 19, 2009

    If you receive public funds, should you have to serve the public? That is the question the Catholic Church is now asking itself. It seeks...

  • Gay Judgment Day

    By on November 18, 2009

    It's a gorgeous Sunday. Just about one of the last perfect days of 2009. But am I outside enjoying it? No. And why not? Two...

  • Allies Before Animosity

    By on November 11, 2009

    The No on 1 campaign lost despite a strong effort because too many Maine voters were persuaded that marriage equality would require teaching schoolchildren about...

  • Opportunity for Alliance

    By on October 28, 2009

    YouTube videos of an Aug. 18 news conference illuminate the radical right's strategy of recruiting African-American ministers to attack progressive policies, and point to practical...

  • Street vs. Suite

    By on October 14, 2009

    The National Equality March (NEM) on Sunday brought out tens of thousands (according to The Washington Post), including lots of dogs and children, with the...

  • Stepping Out

    By on October 7, 2009

    My first in-the-streets action did not leave blisters on my feet. It's not because it didn't include a long march route winding through some city....

  • Diversity's Dinosaurs

    By on September 30, 2009

    Scratch a homophobe and you find a religious bigot. Robert Knight of Coral Ridge Ministries, responding on Townhall.com to the Muslim prayer gathering last Friday...

  • Time To Act

    By on September 16, 2009

    I am a great proponent of making the case for marriage equality. As the battle in D.C. heated up this past spring and summer, I...

  • I the People

    By on September 9, 2009

    When Mildred and Richard Loving were fighting Virginia for the right to be married though being of different races, a respectable judge in the commonwealth...