Columns
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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...
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Making Change
Whenever I'm faced with the task of providing biographical information about my life, I have a bit of a language problem. Namely, while I want...
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Bye Bye Birdie
The only thing flying high today is the price of gas. I don't feel that pinch immediately or directly, as I don't own a car....
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A Day at the circus
There I was late Saturday in Washington's historic Wardman Park Hotel -- once used as a set for the film Advise and Consent -- waiting...
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Equal Protection Victory
The California Supreme Court's May 15 ruling ending marriage discrimination is remarkable not just for the fact of victory, but for the strength and sweep...
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I Want My Mommy
It's Mother's Day and, as usual, I'm prepared. The tulips I ordered so many days ago arrived right on time on Mother's Day Eve, as...
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Free the Sex Trade
The recent suicide of D.C. Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who faced a prison sentence for doing something that harmed no one, raises a question unrelated...
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Pansy Division
Hanging around my father's auto-body shop during my summer vacations wasn't exactly the same as hanging out with longshoremen or sailors, but I still learned...
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Tattered Vestments
Santa Maria Maggiore is unique among the Patriarchal Basilicas of Rome in that it retains its original structure, though it has been enhanced over the...
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Civics Lesson
What's your trick for getting out of jury duty? I'd be very surprised if you don't have at least one simple method to suggest. Last...
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The Anti-Socialite
You know that friend you have that you can call up at a moment's notice with an offer to catch a movie, and be guaranteed...
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Hit List
Arriving at the recent town-hall meeting regarding same-sex, intimate-partner violence called by the new Rainbow Response coalition, I was a little worn. I'd already spent...
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Coming Unglued
Walking along U Street Northwest on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination, there is little sign that the neighborhood was on fire forty years...
