Columns
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A Call to Coalition
Defeating the right-wing backlash requires a revitalized liberal coalition
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In your face, with cake
Reactions to Michael Sam kissing his boyfriend on ESPN show his impact.
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A Next Generation Dream
And so but wow, what an amazing few years we’ve been through, right? That sounds a bit flip — well, more than a bit — but...
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Draw Your Weapon
A friend on Facebook last weekend posted a provocative meme by Ricky Gervais that said, “Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from...
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An Amazing Journey
I’m not the man I used to be. If you look at a picture of me from 20 years ago, you’ll recognize me even though...
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Finding Hope at Youth Pride Day
In my early teenaged years as I navigated adolescence and high school, it was hard to imagine what my future would hold. Where would I...
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Ding-A-Lings of Spring
The rain of ridiculous ravings from America’s political right continued unabated as spring took hold. Let’s look at a few examples. Last week, Chelsea Clinton...
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A Thought for Food & Friends
Roughly 12 years ago, I was toiling on the floor of a pal’s dining room, constructing a banner. I’d just begun dating the man I’d...
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The ”Sore Winners” Fallacy
Several prominent gay writers deplored the furor that brought down Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla Corp. last week for supporting California’s anti-gay Proposition 8....
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Twin Birthdays
Celebrating my husband’s birthday last week, there were a couple unintentional themes at play. I’d taken him to Puerto Rico for a long weekend, a...
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The Universe in Us
Carl Sagan, host of the original 1980 Cosmos series, said we are made of star stuff, because our atoms were created billions of years ago...
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RIP, Fred Phelps
While many people will be celebrating the death of Fred Phelps, whose name is synonymous with irrational hate and vitriol, I think that today the...
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Washington as the Globe’s Gay Capital
Earlier this month, I shared a post on my Facebook wall regarding Dmitry Kiselyov. The post was critical of the anti-Western, anti-LGBT Kiselyov, taking what...
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The Right To Be Wrong
I have been fighting the Catholic Church since I first argued with a nun at St. Catherine Labouré Elementary School in 1962. I don't recall...
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A Wish for Ukraine
The Crimean Peninsula is an autonomous republic within Ukraine, and the home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet, in Sevastopol, in accordance with a bilateral...
