Columns
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On Being First
''Being the first sucks,'' Amanda Simpson, one of the first openly trans appointments to a federal government position, told ABC News. ''I'd rather not be...
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Free To Be
The recent advertisement on Metrobuses calling for a referendum to repeal the District's hard-won legislation guaranteeing marriage equality was many things. It was an egregious...
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Coming Out Conservative
In mid-February thousands of conservatives will descend on D.C. for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference -- better known as CPAC -- the premiere political...
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Feedback Farrago
One of the interesting sidelights of being a writer and activist is the correspondence I receive. So I spent a few hours on a wintry...
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History's Hobby
If history has a hobby, it's making those who assume to know its course look foolish. At the close of the last decade, somewhat weary...
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Searching for Dialogue
It seems that the issue of relations between the LGBT community and the black community has remained contentious. It's even more problematic if you toss...
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Historic Harvest
A blizzard began in Washington on Dec. 18, several hours after Mayor Adrian Fenty signed the marriage-equality bill in historic All Souls Unitarian Church. Nearly...
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Life Changes
Waiting in line on Monday night to have our photo taken with President and Mrs. Obama at the White House press holiday party, one of...
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Hurtling Toward Hope
With the new year and new decade approaching, I realized I hadn't indulged in much retrospection. Then, standing in line at the grocery store, I...
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How Marriage Happened
This week, the D.C. City Council voted 11-2 to legalize marriages between same-sex couples. This is a milestone for the LGBT movement for a number...
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Lambda's Last Call
When he opened Lambda Rising bookstore in 1974, Deacon Maccubbin started with $3,000 of his own money and $1,000 he borrowed from Craig Howell of...
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A Moral Compass
There are all sorts of Catholics. There's Andrew Sullivan. The pope. Newt Gingrich. Sister Jeannine Grammick, that glorious woman who defied the Vatican in her...
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Opinion: Should a Publicly-Funded Charity Serve the Public?
If you receive public funds, should you have to serve the public? That is the question the Catholic Church is now asking itself. It seeks...
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Gay Judgment Day
It's a gorgeous Sunday. Just about one of the last perfect days of 2009. But am I outside enjoying it? No. And why not? Two...
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Allies Before Animosity
The No on 1 campaign lost despite a strong effort because too many Maine voters were persuaded that marriage equality would require teaching schoolchildren about...
