All posts by Sean Bugg
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Court Time
So my television viewing this past week or so has given me a front-row seat to an intense competition, where the protagonists shift wildly between...
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Lesbian champion Martina Navratilova makes quiet on-court statement about gay rights
“She was all about Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. She repeated that about four or five times, so I just felt I couldn’t...
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Foolish Thing Desire
A few years ago, before I began dating my husband, my then-boyfriend took me to a summer cookout with a local gay Asian group. It...
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Friendly Fire
''Some of my best friends are '' is deservedly one of the most mocked phrases in the English language, given that it...
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Raucous Caucus
If nothing else, the Iowa caucuses kicked off the year with an inadvertently entertaining bang. After months of a rotating circus of second-tier candidates taking...
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Days Gone By
To get the cliché out of the way, looking back over a just-completed year is generally an exercise in indulging our own perspectives. Those of...
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Peaks and Valleys
The pragmatic conservatism of Log Cabin Republicans may have kept them in the news in 2011 as the group pursued its lawsuit challenging ''Don't Ask,...
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A Tale of Two Closets
Mr. Spock is gay. Or, at least, this Star Trek timeline's version of the iconic Vulcan is played by Zachary Quinto, who came out in...
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The Rule of Three
The idea that significant deaths come in threes is an attractive myth that's always easy to see in hindsight – consider December 2011's intriguing grouping...
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Tree Topping
It took us six years of searching to finally find a solution to one of our most vexing annual problems of the holiday season. Namely,...
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Past Imperfect
My life ended on an early December evening in 1987 when one of my fraternity brothers came into my frat-house bedroom and asked me, ''Are...
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Red and Circuses
One of the more amusing sidelines in the ongoing quest for the Republican presidential nomination has been watching the blogs and media run out of...
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To Be Frank
Naturally, as a gay man running an LGBT magazine I'm always finding things in our coverage that make me pause and reflect, to remember what...
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That Guy
For much of my life, I've tried hard not to be that guy. You know that guy, the one who has a number of sincerely...
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Are We There Yet?
So, yes, it's lamentable that political progress is generally a stop-and-go affair, with long stretches of frustration and ennui punctuated by momentary outbursts of excitement...
