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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's Invitation to Activism

    By on January 31, 2013

    President Obama's second inaugural address charted a confident mainstream agenda for his second term. In doing so he rebuked hostility toward science, defended the social...

  • 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...

  • Clear Harvey Milk Airport for Takeoff

    By on January 24, 2013

    For many, airports are uncomfortable complexes of invasive pat-downs, overpriced sundries and shoeless shuffling. Surly exchanges across countless customer-service counters provide tense white noise between...

  • Giglio Illustrates Advance

    By on January 17, 2013

    If you want to be effective as an activist, you learn that everything is not about you. For example, you don't have to be religious...

  • 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...

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    Commitment to a Cure

    By on January 10, 2013

    As an emigrant from a developing country in Sub-Saharan Africa, I know firsthand what HIV/AIDS has done to my home country. In 1990, 1992 and...

  • 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...

  • Courtside for Marriage

    By on January 3, 2013

    The fight to expand the definition of family to encompass the diversity of actual families continues in 2013. Legislators in Illinois, Minnesota and Rhode Island...

  • Anonymous Attacks

    By on December 27, 2012

    There's a church I've had to name when writing news stories. But since this is merely my opinion, I'm not naming it. I prefer to...

  • 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...

  • Stein Club Point/Counterpoint: Jeri Hughes

    By on December 21, 2012

    The Dec. 19 meeting was called in response to irregularities that occurred during the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club's Dec. 3 officer election. Individuals who had...

  • Stein Club Point/Counterpoint: Earl Fowlkes Jr.

    By on December 21, 2012

    On Dec. 3 the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club narrowly elected Martin Garcia as president (47-45), Angela Peoples as vice president for political and legislative affairs...

  • 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...