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Just Friends
I don't know how anyone has the constitution for a breakup. The average person weathers even life's most routine daily predicaments with great difficulty, and...
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The Invisible Youth
My mother called me the other night looking for answers. A childhood friend of mine had killed herself, and my clearly shaken mother wanted to...
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A New Blow to DADT
Bit by bit, support for the military's ban on openly gay service members is crumbling. In a recent and important op-ed in the New York...
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Singular Sensation
Couplehood is such a smug thing that when it ends, one of the hardest parts is telling the people you know. My boyfriend Carl and...
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A Canadian Lesson
The new Conservative government in Canada has lost its promised attempt to repeal same-sex marriage in that country. The vote in Canada's Parliament was even...
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Ambling Along
I've never really been to church before. My family always went skiing instead. I grew up in northern Massachusetts, not far from the White Mountain...
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Scrolling in Scrubs
I can't remember the last decision I made, or the last piece of knowledge I affirmed, without using the World Wide Webbery, the George W....
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Got a Minute?
I routinely form irrationally concrete opinions about things that I barely understand. I'm opposed to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposal to ban trans...
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Back of the Bus
It has happened again, and it's going to keep happening. A Minneapolis bus driver recently complained that an advertisement for a gay magazine that ran...
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With Open Eyes
If not the morning after the election, then soon thereafter, we will all move from the false certitudes and pretended stark choices of the political...
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Rescue from the Right
It's October, and the leaves are turning Code Orange and Red. But just when we were expecting another conveniently timed terror alert, the Republicans have...
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Homophobia Reaffirmed
There are many things one could say about the scandal involving disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.). It is foremost a tale of an individual's...
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Puppy Love
New moms and dads and parents-to-be are often taken aback and a little incredulous when I offer, excitedly, to babysit. They think I'm being polite....
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Player Two
I'm fresh off a round of Shadowgate and I'm wired. I just drank two Presidente longnecks just to bring me back down to level. I'm...
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What About Poly?
Not long ago, hundreds of progressive academics and activists issued a manifesto calling for health care and jobs for all, universal peace, an end to...
