News + Politics
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Aging with Optimism
Aging has long been a frightening topic in the gay community, where youth often seems synonymous with happiness -- particularly so among the males. But...
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Setting the Course
The Wednesday opening reception aside, when attendees of the National Black Justice Coalition's first Black LGBT Leaders Summit sat down to business early Thursday morning,...
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Lesbian Stereo-hyping
There are few moments in a lesbian's life with more texture, few occasions more richly rewarding, than the experience of sitting with a couple of...
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On the Job
Martha Stewart's own version of The Apprentice begins next week, and I am on the edge of my seat. Will she throw chairs? Spit fire?...
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Rainbow Relief
Hurricane Katrina has bombarded Americans with non-stop scenes of devastation. More than two weeks after this gargantuan tempest slammed into the Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi...
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Arnold's Legacy
There's no putting lipstick on this pig. Unless he changes his mind, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will become the first executive anywhere in the world...
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Port in a Storm
News this week that the California Assembly passed a bill allowing same-sex marriage in that state was cause for excitement, without a doubt. The measure...
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Bad-Ass Lesbians
I knew when I boarded the Metro and saw them that the two women sitting near me, dressed in a fashion that is way more...
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Why Iran Matters
A friend and I were recently shooting the breeze over a pot of coffee when he asked me a question that stopped me in my...
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Gathering Steam
The local, monthly community meetings to discuss GLBT participation in the Millions More Movement (MMM) are quickly gaining steam. The seventh monthly meeting, initiated in...
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Proud Moments
Every June for the last 30 years, the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area has celebrated pride with energy and enthusiasm. Whether it was a few hundred...
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Crossed Tracks
While recently speaking to someone who lives in D.C., I was told that Columbia Heights, the neighborhood in which I lived for many years, is...
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Five Alive
Under the noonday sun Monday, a group of local religious leaders offered another ray of light. Downtown, on the steps of the Metropolitan African Methodist...
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Heavy Duty
I knew there was trouble when she told me to have a seat in her office and shut the door behind me. We never talk...
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The Eagle Keeps Its Nest, For Now
With the building of one convention center and the demolition of another, not to mention the continuing rise of commercial real-estate values in the revitalized...
