Columns
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Pretty Pretty Bang Bang
So here we were, just an hour since our arrival at my sister's home in oh-so-rural Kentucky. Cavin and I brought our nephew, Andrew, here...
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What's in a Name?
In the late 1980s, epidemiologists adopted the expression ''men having sex with men'' to categorize routes of HIV transmission, to acknowledge that not all such...
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The GOP's Grand Seizure
A fast-moving line of violent thunderstorms known as a derecho hit Washington after nightfall the day after the Supreme Court upheld most of the Affordable...
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Life in Coopersville
Naturally, I already knew that Anderson Cooper was gay, for a number of reasons. First, I work in Washington as a journalist, an industry of...
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Don't Stop Believing
There was a point in my life when I thought nothing could have more meaning than music. Specifically, during my teenage years in high school...
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Stonewall Baby
A birthday is bound to prompt a reflection on the arc of one's life. For me, turning 43 on June 29, when I look at...
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Home Game
Walking around the upper deck of the Nationals stadium on Tuesday night with friends at Team DC's Night out at the Nationals, a few thoughts...
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A Child Shall Lead
Our 44th president's right-wing detractors have made a brand of their unrelenting vilification and thinly concealed racism, whether through ''Birtherism'' or wagging their finger at...
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Faith in Family
When I married my husband, I got a ceremony, a ring, a certificate, a honeymoon and a commitment. Oh! And a swell dinner at Restaurant...
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Buns Away
So I'll share a little secret: When I first decided to take my 12-year-old nephew to this year's Capital Pride Parade to ride in our...
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Reasons for the Season
So, four seasons, 12 months and 52 issues later, here we are again at Pride weekend. Sometimes it feels like a holiday, with all the...
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The Zombies of Summer
Signs of the End Times: A naked man in Miami looked up from eating another man's face and growled at the police officer, then resumed...
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God Only Knows
It can be a challenge, being the nonbeliever in a relationship with someone who's devout. If I believed in such things, I would have to...
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Launching Pride
Back in the younger years of DC's Black Pride celebration, I was coordinating HIV-prevention outreach efforts with one of my black co-workers at Whitman-Walker Clinic....
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NAACP Gets to Yes
A group calling itself the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People hardly sounds cutting edge. Yet 62 of 64 board members for the...
