Columns
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Night of Kings
On March 5th, D.C.'s monthly Drag King Night at Chaos celebrated its three-year anniversary. ''This is the world's longest-running drag king show, '' organizer and...
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Fishing for Answers
In college, my friend Monica looked after my pets one weekend when I was away. I returned to my dorm room to find a note...
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Duct and Cover
Sometimes I feel like I'm in between Iraq and a hard place. But seriously, folks -- for lesbian feminists, the question of women in the...
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Rites of Passage
A few weeks ago, Olivia told me in no uncertain terms that girls can't marry girls. Tempted though I was to pat her down for...
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Unfriendly Skies
With all the drama over terrorism and airport security since September 2001, it's easy to forget that plain old-fashioned homophobia can also ruin a good...
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Where the Heart Is
A few months ago, I had occasion to take issue on these pages with an action of my hometown city council, which voted against a...
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Lesbian Sex Stats
Have you ever been rudely jolted out of a dreamy Sunday morning sleep-in by a phone survey from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)? Last...
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Missed Connections
News last week of the death of lesbian journalist Sarah Pettit did not come as a surprise to me, because I had heard that she...
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Speaking in Mothertongues
Last night I went to Mothertongue, which packed the Black Cat with over two hundred wild women, poets, and writers of every sexuality our fair...
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Transformation Train
It's April 1993, and we are golden. Everywhere we look, we are affirmed -- everyone's smiling and friendly, and after my first six months in...
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Gender Battles on Title IX
The sound of macho-nacho cheese snacks pouring into man-sized serving bowls reminds me that Super Bowl season is here. But for many women, a more...
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Auld Lang Syne
For 10 year's ends in a row, starting in 1992 and ending in 2001, I and others on staff at the gay newspaper where I...
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Family Ties
It's that time of year again -- the ho-ho-holidays, the spend-yourself-silly countdown to December 25. I'm a sucker for a shopping mall any day of...
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Campus Radicals, Past and Present
This is where I came out as a brainy dyke teen in Birkenstock sandals, fountain pen dripping with feminist ink: Washington, D.C. in 1980, on...
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Life with Pooh (and Piglet)
Like many kids, I fell in love with the Winnie-the-Pooh literature when I was young and became enchanted with tales of Piglet (my favorite) and...
