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  • Pro-Gay, Pro-Choice

    By on June 10, 2009

    As night fell on May 31, the candlelight vigils around the country for the murdered Dr. George Tiller included one at Dupont Circle. Several dozen...

  • Chinese Takeaway

    By on June 3, 2009

    Though I'm up to my eyes with politics lately, my original intention for this particular installment of ''Stonewall Baby'' was to be more of the...

  • Captive Audience

    By on May 27, 2009

    On Sunday evening of DC Black Pride weekend, African-American Collective Theater (ACT) presented a sneak peek at Play Ball, a new play by director/writer Alan...

  • Tribal Warfare

    By on May 20, 2009

    There is plenty of inequity in our country. Whether it's poverty, discrimination, oppression, take your pick. We're far from perfect. We may be richer, more...

  • Bad Shepherd

    By on May 13, 2009

    ''Every single person who voted for this, they're gone,'' shouted Rev. Anthony Evans, associate pastor of D.C.'s Mount Zion Baptist Church, into a news camera....

  • The Homophobic Lifestyle

    By on May 6, 2009

    With the recent protests against marriage quality -- replete with a grandstanding politician, muddy logic, and faith in God being on one's side -- there's...

  • Strange Fruit

    By on April 29, 2009

    The recent suicides by hanging of two 11-year-old boys in response to anti-gay bullying -- Carl Walker-Hoover in Massachusetts on April 6 and Jaheem Herrera...

  • The Living Dread

    By on April 22, 2009

    Zombies are enjoying a pop-culture heyday. You can keep Twilight and Rise of the Lycans. The buzz is all about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,...

  • Bruised Brotherhood

    By on April 8, 2009

    If there is a no-man's land between The New Gay and The Old Gay, I am sitting in it. To be clear, these are not...

  • Hoops and Heresy

    By on April 1, 2009

    I have been a bit conflicted lately. On one hand, I've been rooting for my Catholic alma mater, Villanova, in the NCAA men's basketball playoffs....

  • Taxes for Tyrants

    By on March 18, 2009

    I recently excerpted the HIV/AIDS-related items from the State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2008. The grim survey ranges from Russia, where...

  • The New Victims

    By on March 11, 2009

    There are certain clichés about ''liberals,'' ''progressives,'' ''lefties,'' what have you. As a longtime spy in that house of love, I can tell you that...

  • Hello, Cruel World

    By on March 4, 2009

    This is a good time to take stock of the threats faced by GLBT people around the world. That's because on Feb. 25, the State...

  • Vacation Baggage

    By on February 25, 2009

    Dateline: ms Eurodam, at sea, Feb. 22. Don't ask me what the ''ms'' stands for, or why it's not capitalized. Were I at work, I'd...

  • State of the Union

    By on February 18, 2009

    Two kinds of union were celebrated Feb. 12. First, Americans honored the 200th birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, who preserved the union and ended slavery....