Columns
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Red and Circuses
One of the more amusing sidelines in the ongoing quest for the Republican presidential nomination has been watching the blogs and media run out of...
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Very Much Alive
Rep. Barney Frank's announcement that he would not seek a 17th congressional term came just as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was rising in the...
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To Be Frank
Naturally, as a gay man running an LGBT magazine I'm always finding things in our coverage that make me pause and reflect, to remember what...
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D.C. in the Red
When I moved back East from Portland, Ore., I'd more or less had my fill of ''crunchiness.'' The guy I moved out there with had...
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That Guy
For much of my life, I've tried hard not to be that guy. You know that guy, the one who has a number of sincerely...
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Golden Hour
It was the ''golden hour'' of late afternoon on Nov. 3 during the viewing for gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny when I walked outside the...
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Are We There Yet?
So, yes, it's lamentable that political progress is generally a stop-and-go affair, with long stretches of frustration and ennui punctuated by momentary outbursts of excitement...
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Pulling the Lever
My first time going to vote was with my mother, a recollection that's gauzy enough to indicate that it was probably somewhere around 1974. The...
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Kramer vs. Everyone
Larry Kramer has kept his Cassandra act going for an awfully long time. To summarize: Why aren't you angrier? Why aren't you in the streets?...
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Look Back in Anger
If I had to choose the aspect of my own writing I like least, it would be my tendency to delve into optimistic cheerleading. The...
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Billions of Babies
Humanity has marked another milestone. We've not gone on to Mars or figured out how to create endless, cheap energy. Rather, our biologically programmed horniness...
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Out With It
For those of us who've been out for years, the delicate dance of the semi-closeted celebrity can be infuriating. The dance features a number of...
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Kameny in Combat
My first direct experience of Frank Kameny's combative style came during a gay rights debate that I arranged at Villanova University in March 1978 for...
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Golden Years
I've been thinking a lot lately about aging, mostly because it's something my body seems to be rapidly doing. Of course, much of this obsession...
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Students First
If a gay Ayn Rand club were to hold some sort of D.C. confab and I covered it, they could well come back and cry...
