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  • Gentle Ben

    By on May 18, 2011

    It's likely the fantasy of many gay men. In a New York City hotel room, Ben Cohen, 32, is fresh from the shower. Sorry, gents,...

  • The 2011 Next Generation Awards

    By on May 11, 2011

    Every generation builds on the accomplishments of those who came before. The rights we enjoy today were secured by the work of the generation before...

  • The 2011 Next Generation Awards Panel

    By on May 11, 2011

    The Next Generation Award winners are chosen from community nominations by a panel of local LGBT leaders. The 2011 Next Generation Awards selection panelists are:...

  • Gregory Cendana

    By on May 11, 2011

    In no small way being taunted growing up in Sacramento, Calif., inspired Gregory Cendana to activism. ''Even though I wasn't out in elementary and middle...

  • Victoria Kirby

    By on May 11, 2011

    Ralph Ellison wrote The Invisible Man as a novel exploring the narrator's sense of social invisibility as an African-American man of the early 20th century....

  • Daniel Fredrick O'Neill

    By on May 11, 2011

    ''It's a sobering thought, how affected our community still is – whether it's preventable in a lot of ways or not,'' says Daniel Fredrick O'Neill...

  • Sadie Ryanne Vashti

    By on May 11, 2011

    It was just before Christmas of last year that Sadie Ryanne Vashti sent an email to her mother asking if she could return home to...

  • Domestic Disturbance

    By on May 4, 2011

    Part One of a series marking the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act Talking with Andrew Sullivan about marriage is...

  • Mame's Scrapbook: Five Decades of Fabulous

    By on April 28, 2011

    After a tour in the Navy, Carl Rizzi came to D.C. for a career in the Postal Service. But the life of a fabulous high-drag...

  • Home & Garden

    By on April 21, 2011

    The upside of having four strong and distinct seasons is that spring always arrives as a breath of relief from the long, cold months of...

  • Out on the Farm

    By on April 20, 2011

    It started simply, as these things go. Manhattanites Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge felt the lure of a weekend place in the country, a place...

  • Million Dollar Man

    By on April 20, 2011

    Lifetime Television used to be the gay man's go-to station. Today -- perhaps even more so than Logo -- that distinction would seem to go...

  • Spring Seediness

    By on April 20, 2011

    In Russian, the root for both ''red'' and ''beautiful'' is ''kras.'' Some say this aspect of the language evolved out of Russia's notoriously harsh winters,...

  • House Hunting

    By on April 20, 2011

    For some, spring is not about ''spring cleaning'' your home, but rather about buying a new one. ''A lot of people do like to get...

  • Spiffing Up for Spring

    By on April 20, 2011

    When we need to center ourselves or achieve a feeling of inner calm, we take a deep breath and slowly let it out. Your home...