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Rough and Tumble
The tumbleweed, it turned out, was a harbinger. I was a passenger in a car traveling down a small highway in Idaho and the tumbleweed...
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Where's the wedding?
The Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, which opposes gay marriage, has just issued a new report finding that relatively few gay couples are getting...
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Borderline Crazy
I remember watching that Richard Linklater movie, Slacker, in 1991 and thinking to myself, ''These people are pathetic.'' I was 13 and had no concept...
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A Bee in My Bonnet
As far as I know, I am allergic to bees. When I was a child, wandering barefoot through the grassy expanses of my home state,...
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Traditional Values
The headline of the lead story in last week's Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco's gay newspaper of record, said it all: ''Gay Families Join Easter...
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Gays in Eurabia
Four years after the assassination of gay Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, his warning of the threat posed to the rights of European gays and women...
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Perking Me Up
Our relationship began in the early '90s, when I was still living in Des Moines and she was in New York City. I'd never been...
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Ball Games
As a kid, I threw like a girl. Or, I would have, if the girls on my little league team hadn't thrown better than I...
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Let Catholics Discriminate
As laws protecting gay Americans from discrimination proliferate, they increasingly conflict with important liberties. The latest example of this clash comes from Massachusetts, where the...
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Upping the Ante
I was in Spanish class when the note came. It was a small piece of memo pad paper with an office staffer's handwriting on it....
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Sudden Departure
Whenever my phone rings and I see my parents' number in the little window, my first thought is always that my grandmother died. She's very...
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FAIR's Fair?
Much of the reaction to the Supreme Court's 8-0 decision in Rumsfeld v. FAIR to uphold the Solomon Amendment has been ill-informed. Commentators, especially in...
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Learning Lessons
Though much will be made of it, the federal Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) is unlikely to be the most important story of the marriage fight...
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Doggie Style
From the start, the dog was unruffled, collected and mature. She quietly waited for her two new owners to stop yelping and jumping on the...
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Run baby, run!
Running laps around the football field in high school phys. ed. was just not for me. I did it because it was required and I...
