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Republican ploy for redemption
Ken Mehlman, former chairman of the Republican National Committee and co-chair of President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign, who ran what was arguably the most hate-filled homophobic ca...
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Mosque issue is an LGBT issue
If you picked up almost any newspaper in the nation Monday, you would have seen an article about the proposed Islamic Cultural Center near ground zero in Manhattan. The Washington Post story, “Oth...
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Biases, boycotts and mosques
I asked my Facebook friends what I should write about this week. Their top suggestions were Proposition 8, Target’s donation to an antigay politician and the situation in Lancaster. (By the way, i...
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My summer vacation
This is my “What I did on my summer vacation column.” A week’s getaway to P-Town aka Provincetown. P-town is to New England what Fire Island is to the New York City LGBT crowd and Rehoboth is to...
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GetEQUAL, get real! Learn!
Let’s face it: GetEQUAL, which has gotten much LGBT media attention of late, needs to mature somewhat. It shows promise, but unfortunately the inexperience is beginning to show. They don’t see w...
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Breaking up is hard to do
If you’re a regular reader of this column, you’ve read over the last few years about my relationship with Jason. He’s also had a profound involvement with many of the projects I’ve worked on and t...
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LGBT politics and money
It’s October in July. If you turn on your TV, you’ll note we are already seeing the political ads that usually don’t hit until October. Usually the traditional start of the campaign season is Sept...
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Remembering, making history
We live, you no doubt have noted, in an instant world. There’s e-mail, cell phones and even instant coffee. And what is not instant is becoming very fast. Take travel: Any one of us could be almos...
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Pioneers reclaim Pride
This year, Gay Pride seems to be going on and on — especially for those of us who marched or help plan the first Gay Pride March in New York City on June 28, 1970. While we knew it’s historic impo...
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Taking stock of our community
Gay Pride Month, every June, seems to be a good time to take stock of where we are as a community. After all, we only began to grow our community some 40 years ago. While there were gay organizati...
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