Columns
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Chancellor's Challenge
In the spring, District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) launched the Hopes and Dreams campaign, an ambitious effort that asked thousands of residents to share...
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It's All Relative
Those of us who grew up closeted in rural America often have some pretty complicated relationships with family. Visiting at my aunt and uncle's house...
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Mortal Matters
Years ago, a very devout people executed a revolution and overthrew a tyrant. As a matter of strategy, those revolutionaries held onto a handful of...
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The Big Game
For those who don't know already, I suppose I need to come out publicly. I am, of course, a gamer. I don't mean that I'm...
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Snark on a Sinking Ship
The outcome of the tea party's invented crisis over the national debt ceiling remains uncertain as I write on Monday morning, but one thing is...
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Building Trust
While ''LGBT'' has grown commonplace, the ''T'' remains not quite as fully integrated into the broader community. Just as commonplace, in my own experience, is...
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Walking the Walk
It was just a few months ago that CBS war correspondent Lara Logan was nearly killed in Cairo, pawed at by men who each somehow...
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We're Here, We're Queer. Really.
When I titled my book on straight/LGBT communication Queer Questions, Straight Talk, I expected some freak-out. My publisher, a straight man deeply committed to LGBT...
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Enemy of the Good
For many families, it's a cardinal rule for friendly relations to declare certain times and places ''politics-free'' zones. Few things can ruin a perfectly pleasant...
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Quacks and Busybodies
I resisted a temptation in my last column to report the speculation then stirring that Marcus Bachmann, who is married to Republican presidential candidate Rep....
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Season of Discontent
Way back in the early summer of 1992, I spent many of my young activist days hanging out in the ACT-UP DC office where things...
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Last Dance
You miss things the most when you realize they'll never return. Over the course of 20-odd years in D.C., I've watched a lot of bars...
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DOJ's Big Step
President Obama last week put wind in his re-election sails with a big move on the marriage front. In so doing, he contrasted himself nicely...
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Closet Space
For many of us, the issues that touch our daily lives are the issues about which we care the most. It's certainly a reason that...
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It's a Smaller World
Mark my words: I'll never be visiting Saudi Arabia. Unless of course I'm invited to take part in some debate I'll hypothetically title, ''Homosexuality: Gift...
