News + Politics
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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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The Fetal Position
Photos by Michael Wichita What exactly is a gay issue? Global warming? War in Iraq? These are, at least, issues that affect gays and lesbians...
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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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Community Matters
Washington's gay and lesbian presence in the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is set to grow again, as the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU) adds...
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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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Choosing Its Battles
The American Federation of Labor is linking arms with the Anti-Capitalist Convergence. The National Council of Churches is shoulder to shoulder with the ACLU. Even...
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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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Unlawfully Wed
Right now, there's a country filled with gay Christian couples thanking God that their prayers have been answered. Right now, there's a Bible Belt packed...
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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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Ornamental
In August, you complained that the stores were breaking out their Christmas consumables way too early, but here we are two weeks from the big...
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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...
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Fully Wired
Photography by Michael Wichita I do say, there's nothing quite like a bit of energy spritzer to fluff one's midday mojo. I seek a concoction...
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All the Trimmings
I tend to forget, in the hustle-bustle thing called life, about the meaning and importance of days designated to reflect and honor and observe. Somehow...
