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  • The Fetal Position

    By on January 29, 2003

    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...

  • Speaking in Mothertongues

    By on January 22, 2003

    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...

  • Community Matters

    By on January 22, 2003

    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...

  • Transformation Train

    By on January 15, 2003

    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...

  • Gender Battles on Title IX

    By on January 8, 2003

    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...

  • Auld Lang Syne

    By on January 1, 2003

    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...

  • Choosing Its Battles

    By on January 1, 2003

    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...

  • Unlawfully Wed

    By on December 18, 2002

    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...

  • Family Ties

    By on December 18, 2002

    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...

  • Campus Radicals, Past and Present

    By on December 11, 2002

    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...

  • Ornamental

    By on December 11, 2002

    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...

  • Life with Pooh (and Piglet)

    By on December 4, 2002

    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...

  • Fully Wired

    By on November 20, 2002

    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...

  • All the Trimmings

    By on November 20, 2002

    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...

  • Ebony & Ivory

    By on November 13, 2002

    Photography by Michael Wichita Does anything quite say ''urban sophistication'' like the elegant simplicity of a piano bar? And if you throw around words like...