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  • Deadly Romance

    By on December 17, 2012

    America's romance with guns, an emblem of our frontier spirit, has claimed its most innocent victims. When shots rang out in Sandy Hook Elementary in...

  • Congratulations, Coverboys

    By on December 13, 2012

    During my pre-Metro Weekly years, I would pick up an issue and go straight to Coverboy Confidential. I still read it, of course, but now...

  • Cities of Refuge

    By on December 6, 2012

    On the night of Dec. 1, members of Light Brigade Maryland, joined by members of GetEqual DC and the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA),...

  • 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...

  • Family at Cliffside

    By on November 22, 2012

    The greatest contribution of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln is that it shows our 16th president not marching majestically toward Mount Rushmore, but deeply immersed in the...

  • 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...

  • Welcome to Missibama

    By on November 15, 2012

    As we move into the holiday season, imagine a Southern town square with a resplendent Nativity scene on some warm December evening. Nearby, lights shine...

  • 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...

  • Still Facing Wolves

    By on November 7, 2012

    Totemism, in which a group identifies with a symbolic animal, survives mostly in sports teams. But modern politics also has a totemic aspect, though not...

  • 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...

  • Values Voter

    By on October 31, 2012

    It's very unlikely that anyone who knows me would ever consider me a risk-taker. My nickname is ''Brakes.'' I'm like the babysitter who won't let...

  • Shape-Shifting and Distractions

    By on October 25, 2012

    Like a mythical shape-shifter or a repertory actor, Mitt Romney will pretend to be whatever you need. Politicians often do this, but he reaches new...

  • 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...