Not long ago, I submitted myself to a full physical at my doctor's office after much concerned haranguing from husband and family. It's heartwarming that...
As we approach another World AIDS Day I find myself reflecting on one of the most troubling elements in our discussion moving forward. It is...
There is something electric about being in an LGBTQ space. The spark, the sizzle of energy, compassion and willingness to both question and listen fills...
The holidays are approaching, but events are making it hard to get in the festive spirit. Not only is a friend spamming me with polls...
It's hard being the family gay. When you're the first in your family to come out — meaning the active choice to live your life...
With the holidays around the corner, plenty of us are bound to find ourselves in alien surroundings. It might be at the family home of...
About five years into Barack Obama's socialistic — or fascistic, depending on which side of the bed congressional Republicans woke up on this morning —...
In political advocacy, as in statecraft, purity is a luxury an effective practitioner cannot afford. The tea party's aggressive push for ideological purity has yielded...
So while I was driving my nephew back to Falls Church for a weekend visit, we were having a conversation about the experience of 8th...
I consider myself fortunate that I took off last week to work on another project because about the last thing in the world I wanted...
If a full moon makes people crazy, what's their excuse the rest of the month? This haunting question arose on Oct. 18 as I sat...
Earlier this month, The Washington Times printed some commentary by Matt Philbin of the Reston, Va.-based Media Research Center. Essentially, he's disturbed by transgender self-identification,...
In the summer of 1991 I scraped together some coins from my rapidly depleting change bowl and hopped on the 14th Street bus that took...
The night started like any other performance at Ole Miss. The house lights dimmed, the stage lights came up, and our production of The Laramie...
The brinkmanship in Washington is getting a little heady, so let's summarize: The thug from Texas by way of Princeton and Harvard says to The...