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  • John McCain's Bitter Battle

    By on January 31, 2013

    So this week finally saw a bout of bipartisan movement in the Senate with the introduction of an immigration-reform plan. This is exciting news for...

  • Obama and the Future Present

    By on January 24, 2013

    Not being a person who's into large crowds, I didn't trek down to the Capitol on Monday for the Inauguration. If I'm going to watch...

  • The Uncivil War over Jodie Foster

    By on January 16, 2013

    Rather than my usual rambling preamble I'll jump right in because I have limited space and this topic inspires a vomitous number of words: Jodie...

  • Haggling over Chuck Hagel

    By on January 10, 2013

    Everything old is new again. What goes around, comes around. Pissing in the wind brings ill returns. There are simply so, so many clichés to...

  • A Wish for 2013

    By on January 3, 2013

    While 2012 was a bit of a mixed bag for me from a personal perspective, it was undeniably a remarkable year to be a gay...

  • A Mixed Bag

    By on December 26, 2012

    When it comes down to it, most years really are a mixed bag when it comes to defining them as ''good'' or ''bad.'' A good...

  • Opening the Closet's Glass Door

    By on December 20, 2012

    To use some classic Washington parlance, when it comes to LGBT celebrities and politicians, we have our known unknowns and we have our unknown unknowns....

  • Sane Choices Start at Home

    By on December 20, 2012

    If I had owned a gun at any point in the past 25 years or so, I would most likely be dead by now. Not...

  • The Waiting Game

    By on December 5, 2012

    So, after weeks and months of careful consideration, voluminous reading and personal consultations with friends and family, I'm finally ready to make an important announcement:...

  • The Naked Truth

    By on November 29, 2012

    Had you asked me a few years back what I thought were the advantages of being half of a gay, childless couple, I'm pretty sure...

  • Days Go By

    By on November 15, 2012

    Soap operas were a kind of omnipresent force of entertainment during my youth. Many of them are long gone by now, distant memories for aging...

  • What a Night to be Gay

    By on November 8, 2012

    Elections tend to turn me into a bit of a nervous Nellie. Not a full-on drama queen like Andrew Sullivan, who set the sky-is-falling gold...

  • Last Pitch Effort

    By on November 5, 2012

    {Sean Bugg and Cavin Le exchange rings (Photo by Ward Morrison)} I've joked often in the past few months that I'm lucky my family tree...

  • Keeping Them Close

    By on October 31, 2012

    Thanks to Hurricane Sandy, I've been enjoying a longer-than-expected family visit to Kentucky for my Granny Bugg's 100th birthday party. As anyone who follows me...

  • Signs of the Times

    By on October 24, 2012

    {There goes the neighborhood (Photo by Sean Bugg)} My neighborhood these past two weeks has become an incessant reminder of why this is the most...