All posts by Sean Bugg
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D.C.’s Nellie’s cited as trailblazer in “gay sports bar” trend
“I’m not even a sports fan; I just have a lot of experience in marketing and advertising. … You can’t just open a stereotypical gay...
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Sticks and Stones
''Words can never hurt me.'' That's one of the comforting lies we learn in childhood, along with ''cheaters never win,'' ''you can be whatever you...
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Grizzly Madam
If there's a lesson I've learned from family conversations over the past couple of years, it's that I should avoid talking politics. I probably should...
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Volunteer Spirit
When Eric Cohen and Jonathan Blumenthal met while doing volunteer work with a gay and lesbian singles group, it was a special moment that launched...
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New Year, New Goals
I'm not the type of person who makes New Year's resolutions, not because of any particular antipathy towards the holiday or the intentions of those...
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Coming Out Strong
Looking back on 2010, it was a celebrity-filled year. In the spring, Kathy Griffin brought her My Life on the D-List reality show to the...
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Done Deal
Way back in 1993, I was a young activist filled with the desire to make the world a better place for gays and lesbians. Many...
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Holiday Blues
I'd really like to stop writing about ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'' Some amount of political fatigue would be expected in any protracted battle, and if...
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Matters of Honor
I've struggled to explain at times why the repeal of ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' takes such overwhelming priority on my personal to-do list for gay...
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Déjà View
I was still a fresh-faced newcomer to D.C. 21 years ago when the Robert Mapplethorpe controversy erupted in Congress and the Corcoran museum. The famed...
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Finding Home
In less than 24 hours, as I write this, my frenetic holiday season will begin. I don't mean that in a ''Woe is me, the...
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Stale Air
So, here's what I've been struggling with lately: I'm 42 at the moment and will all-too-soon turn 43. It's not my age that's nagging me...
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No Time to Stop
There's a strange and unsettling mood floating around these days after the shellacking delivered to Democrats by Republicans in the midterm elections. It's not unexpected,...
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Smashing Success
When Martina Navratilova takes to the court next Monday, it won't be for glory or the record books. Instead, she'll be joining a host of...
