All posts by Sean Bugg
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Vodka Is No Tonic for Russia
Given that just a couple weeks ago I argued that LGBT people should avoid seeing the upcoming sci-fi film Ender's Game because it's based on...
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Crossing Color Lines
It feels weird how often I still find myself having to come out in little moments of my daily life — a random conversation with...
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Card's Game
One of my few hard and fast rules of life is ''Always bring a book.'' It fills up all those interstitial moments in life spent...
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Good Times, Bad Times
Following last week's big win on marriage in the Supreme Court, gays and lesbians across the country can be excused for indulging in a victory...
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DOMA Goes Down
It's not often you get to see a wave of joy wash across the Internet, so the first few minutes after the Supreme Court announced...
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Obama's Tiresome Rhetorical Trick
We all have our rhetorical tics and tricks. For example, mine include the excessive use of clauses such as ''however,'' ''actually'' and ''for example.'' I...
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Family Affairs
For last year's Capital Pride Parade, I brought along my 12-year-old nephew. So in the interest of equality, this year I brought along my 12-year-old...
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Mixing Up the Message
All's fair in love and war and, increasingly, politics. That's not an endorsement of, say, the current Republican political strategy of just making things up...
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Pride’s Wonder Woman
It's not easy to stay an icon. Batmans come and...
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Backlash to the Future
France is such a strange country. I don't say that from first-hand experience of strolling the streets of Paris — my only brief time there...
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Metro Weekly's 2013 Next Generation Awards [video]
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How To Be Gay
I've been many different gay men over the course of my life. Like most of us, I started off as the closeted gay man who...
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Creating Space
It was just over five-and-a-half years ago that I first brought the idea of the Next Generation Awards to Metro Weekly. Because I happen to...
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Annuals of Spring
Anyone familiar with my writings round these parts already knows that I am solipsism central, so I'll just jump right to the point and say...
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Good Times for Bad Boys
Long story short, I found myself cruising around the Tidal Basin in the back of a black limousine with famed porn director Chi-Chi LaRue, a...
