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  • Inside Outing

    By on September 19, 2007

    Mike Rogers of blogActive.com has been riding high since he was proved right in his charges that anti-gay Idaho Sen. Larry Craig (R) was seeking...

  • His Lifer Story

    By on September 5, 2007

    Russell (not his real name) is a closeted, conservative priest whom I have known for 30 years. He is active with an anti-abortion ministry. I...

  • Homebodies

    By on August 15, 2007

    When my African boyfriend Patrick arrived in Washington last month on his first visit to America, his top priority was to find a gym. He...

  • Small Victory in Ohio

    By on August 1, 2007

    On July 25, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled 6-1 in Ohio v. Carswell that the anti-gay Marriage Amendment to the state constitution does not invalidate...

  • Exposing the ''Experts''

    By on July 18, 2007

    Here in Washington, being publicly discredited is no bar to employment for the industrious and well-connected. If you are sufficiently shameless, being a disgraced former...

  • Arc of Progress

    By on July 4, 2007

    I spent last Saturday in a video-watching marathon with Noah's Arc, the black gay dramedy that ran for two seasons on the Logo channel. I...

  • Before He Can Marry

    By on June 13, 2007

    Forty years ago this week, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote in Loving v. Virginia, ''The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of...

  • Save the Clubs

    By on May 23, 2007

    I do not spend much time in nude dancing clubs. I nonetheless defend them for several reasons: Because adults in an international city like Washington...

  • Crosscurrents in 2008

    By on May 9, 2007

    Gore Vidal once said that God is a convenient fiction. The same can be said of ''gay community.'' Despite the common tendency to generalize based...

  • Combating Hate Crimes

    By on April 18, 2007

    On March 14, 2007, a 25-year-old gay man named Ryan Keith Skipper was murdered in Polk County, Fla. He was stabbed 20 times in what...

  • Policing the Police

    By on April 4, 2007

    Relations between D.C.'s gay community and the police have come a long way in the past 50 years. Where vice cops once routinely entrapped gay...

  • D.C. Marriage 101

    By on March 14, 2007

    Did you know that the District of Columbia now ranks sixth in the nation (as compared with states) in legal protections for same-sex couples? This...

  • Just Friends

    By on January 31, 2007

    I don't know how anyone has the constitution for a breakup. The average person weathers even life's most routine daily predicaments with great difficulty, and...

  • The Invisible Youth

    By on January 24, 2007

    My mother called me the other night looking for answers. A childhood friend of mine had killed herself, and my clearly shaken mother wanted to...

  • A New Blow to DADT

    By on January 24, 2007

    Bit by bit, support for the military's ban on openly gay service members is crumbling. In a recent and important op-ed in the New York...