Columns
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Genteel Slander
A Washington Post puff piece lends its subject respectability. Last Friday's was titled, ''Opposing Gay Unions With Sanity & a Smile.'' The subject was Brian...
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Tea Time
The express is about to hit the road. That's the Tea Party Express, departing Sacramento, Calif., on Aug. 28, concluding in D.C. on Saturday, Sept....
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Ripeness Is All
Equality California (EQCA) is not sitting back and waiting in the struggle to regain marriage equality in the Golden State. They are “ready and committed...
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Attitude Adjustment
As an activist I have had occasion to criticize the police; but I also count many police officers as friends. So after gay attorney Pepin...
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G-rated Gay
Children and I don’t really mix well. When they’re near me, when I bear even the remotest responsibility for them, I’m terrified they’ll get hurt....
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Pulling Together
In politics, as in life, we have to seize our moments. The current political moment belongs to Barack Obama and the Democrats. Obama’s polling numbers...
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Bias Ball
It's Monday, July 13, and Sonia Sotomayor has begun her Senate hearings. My guess is that she will soon be named to the Supreme Court....
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Sowing Success
The authors of the Dallas Principles, a proposed set of core values for achieving LGBT equality, have been criticized for their invitation-only meeting at a...
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Employing Anger
Gay-rights pioneer Frank Kameny was in the White House on June 17 to attend the signing of the Presidential Memorandum on benefits for the same-sex...
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Forty-fied
For many adult years, when I imagined hitting my milestone 40th birthday, I pictured a small, chartered boat plying the Aegean Sea, filled with friends,...
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Pro-Gay, Pro-Choice
As night fell on May 31, the candlelight vigils around the country for the murdered Dr. George Tiller included one at Dupont Circle. Several dozen...
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Chinese Takeaway
Though I'm up to my eyes with politics lately, my original intention for this particular installment of ''Stonewall Baby'' was to be more of the...
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Captive Audience
On Sunday evening of DC Black Pride weekend, African-American Collective Theater (ACT) presented a sneak peek at Play Ball, a new play by director/writer Alan...
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Tribal Warfare
There is plenty of inequity in our country. Whether it's poverty, discrimination, oppression, take your pick. We're far from perfect. We may be richer, more...
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Bad Shepherd
''Every single person who voted for this, they're gone,'' shouted Rev. Anthony Evans, associate pastor of D.C.'s Mount Zion Baptist Church, into a news camera....
