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  • Pluck Off

    By on February 9, 2005

    I don't know what came over me the night, somewhere in the throes of adolescence, that I let my friends put make-up on me. I...

  • Old Pipes

    By on February 2, 2005

    Though she's being nice about it, our downstairs lesbian neighbor has informed us through a series of handwritten notes Scotch-taped to our door that our...

  • Absent Recognition

    By on January 26, 2005

    This past year was groundbreaking for gays in black journalism. From black churches supporting or opposing gay marriage to the alarming rise in HIV infection...

  • Identity Krises

    By on January 26, 2005

    Until my senior year in college, I was half the person I am today. I don't mean that this was the point at which I...

  • Fantasy Island

    By on January 12, 2005

    My mother's main goal in life is to be warmer. At any given moment, she's devoting a significant portion of mental resources to figuring out...

  • Busted!

    By on January 5, 2005

    Among the more scintillating New Year's resolutions I heard this year was one friend's declaration that 2005 is the year of cleavage. While I don't...

  • You Shouldn't Have

    By on December 15, 2004

    A billionaire talk show host had a psychotic episode on national television, and then everyone got Pontiacs. ''Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car!''...

  • Equal Opportunity

    By on December 8, 2004

    Job change is in the air. I know this because I've just given notice at my current place of employment and am poised to start...

  • Suit Your Shelf

    By on December 1, 2004

    There's something so clean and benign about a Skandia shelving unit that you hardly notice it's a tool of the devil until you assemble it...

  • First Class

    By on November 17, 2004

    In the coldest stretch of Iowa winter during my last two years of high school, there was a bittersweet part of each day: walking outside...

  • A Far Cry

    By on November 10, 2004

    Among the tears shed this Election Day were those of my friend Gerrit, who is five and who really hoped with all of his heart...

  • Is It Over?

    By on November 3, 2004

    I sometimes fear that the Republican Party, like children who set fire to their toys rather than share with their siblings, might choose to destroy...

  • Truth-Mongering

    By on October 27, 2004

    Ever since John Kerry shocked the nation by declaring on live national television that Mary Cheney is a lesbian, I haven't been able to look...

  • Shacking Up

    By on October 20, 2004

    Some of the more unsavory politicians have defended the sanctity of marriage by describing same-sex couples who have been faithfully cohabitating for most of their...

  • Pink Bunny

    By on October 13, 2004

    My partner and I, the good aunts that we are, recently agreed to host two of our little nieces overnight while their parents took a...