Columns
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Fundamentally Flawed
Here comes autumn. With it come two holidays that remind me of a large part of our American heritage, for better and worse: Thanksgiving, celebrating...
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Stay and Fight
When the stakes in an election are high and our chances of victory are quite good, we can become so invested in winning that we...
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Obamaphobia
I'm sick of the phony reasons some gay people give for opposing Barack Obama. I am not talking about my friends in Log Cabin Republicans,...
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Electing to Evolve
With about as much interest in the Olympics as in the Super Bowl -- none -- I didn't catch any of the games. There was,...
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Media Muddle
Some forms of media bias I can appreciate. For example, someone at The Washington Post got carried away in the August 21 issue with color...
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Friends and Front Pages
As the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association brings its national convention back to D.C., my travel plans have me elsewhere. That's unfortunate, as I...
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Have Faith
Boston's St. Anthony Shrine is not your typical Catholic experience. Scott Pomfret, a gay porn writer and SEC attorney who is a lay lector there,...
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Gay and Golden
Estelle Getty's death July 22 underscored an issue that a friend raised while standing on a roof earlier last month, watching the fireworks over Washington....
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Guarding Our Gains
The value of a coordinated effort by many people was never more evident than in the current battle against a proposed rulemaking by the D.C....
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Food Fight
During my wild ''pescetarian'' days of no meat nor chicken, I refused to eat at McDonald's. My boycott was based upon the notorious ''McLibel'' suit...
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Bad Counsel
A recent opinion by D.C.'s Office of the Attorney General on a pending domestic-partnership bill shows unfamiliarity with both our families and the law, and...
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A Dead Weight
Often I hear from less progressive, less liberal corners that a hallmark of ''relativists'' is their inability to discern between good and evil. Hey, no...
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The Ick Factor
Some gay folks just wish that my colleagues and I in the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance would shut up about sex. It's not that...
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Cross-Border Skirmishes
Let's say you and your partner live in D.C. and are thinking of trading in your domestic partnership for a California wedding. Your heart says:...
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The Happy Homo
A few weeks ago, I wrote a Mother's Day tribute to women who, aside from my mother, have had pivotal, maternal influence on me. I...
