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  • I Swear

    By on July 16, 2003

    I have a pottymouth. I curse like a sailor. I think nothing of tossing around the f-word, the s-word, the p-word, the d-word (even in...

  • Minority Report

    By on July 9, 2003

    Just like that, I'm not a criminal any more. With the Supreme Court ruling on Lawrence v. Texas, I can cross Key Bridge from Georgetown...

  • Safe Sex

    By on July 2, 2003

    June 26, 2003: It's a great day to be a sodomite. In the time line of our lives, this is a big one. They should...

  • Gaydar Testing

    By on June 25, 2003

    As an official bookworm geek, one of my summer jobs is to read and score AP History exams for the College Board. The College Board...

  • Surfing Buddies

    By on June 18, 2003

    I have a gigantic personal network. If I needed to talk about a problem or wanted to chat with someone who shared one of my...

  • Record of the Past

    By on June 11, 2003

    In this past year, the deaths of poet-activist June Jordan and women's music founding mamas Kay Gardner and Ginni Clemmens represent a cumulative loss of...

  • Voice of Reason

    By on June 4, 2003

    In a chaotic living room in Iowa, where conversations between nine adults were shouted over four toddlers and pre-schoolers playing with toys and occasionally breaking...

  • Graduation Gay

    By on May 28, 2003

    Graduation has come and gone, releasing thousands of college students (at least three hundred of whom were mine) to test their bachelors' degrees in a...

  • Mr. Nice Guy

    By on May 21, 2003

    ''I love your hair,'' the Compliment Guy told me one recent day. It wasn't a good hair day or anything; in fact, that morning I...

  • A Visit from Ellen

    By on May 14, 2003

    ''Do you remember what day this is?'' my girlfriend breathed into the phone. So I raced through my mental Rolodex. It wasn't our anniversary, or...

  • Owed to Mom

    By on May 7, 2003

    Mother's Day is fast approaching, and I will be spending the earliest hours of this year's holiday transporting the VIP I call Mom to my...

  • Southern Success Story

    By on April 30, 2003

    Yep, I spent Passover weekend in a pig barn in Ovett, Mississippi. Not kosher, you say? Ah, but I was onstage, emceeing the show, content...

  • Taxing Times

    By on April 23, 2003

    Are there two words in the English language more beautiful than the harmonic, lilting combination of April 15th? A linguistic pair as enticing could be...

  • Back to School

    By on April 16, 2003

    I recently came out to over one hundred kids at my old high school. I was invited to do so as the loyal and enthusiastic...

  • Good Dog

    By on April 9, 2003

    When these words appear in print, the world as I know it will have become a bit bleaker. A veterinarian will have made a house...