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What is LGBT equality victory?
Over the last few months, this column has been chronicling the successes on the road to equality. They have come hard and fast. Some are just at the beginning stage: We have learned when you take o...
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Christie sees future; Santorum wears George Wallace drag
This columnist has been preaching for over a year now, but particularly during this primary season, that America is changing — in favor of LGBT rights and equality. That change was never so true as...
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There are no gay Jews
For me, the aging process has led to a clearer view of equality. After all, it has been the passion of my life for 42 years. Everywhere I travel, I’m in search of how our community is depicted. Unf...
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Two major benchmarks in LGBT history
If you sneezed last week, you might have missed them. Two major changes in the fight for LGBT equality took place — and they literally will change the playing field forever. During the Republican ...
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Let’s hear it for Chicago
This is a call to look at how government funds go to the Catholic Church. Over the years, the Catholic Church or the men who run it have called our community everything — intrinsic moral evil, dys...
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Year of local, national progress
Well, we’ve made it through another year. Was your year full of excitement, joy, friendship? Or was it a year of disappointment and hardship? Whichever it was, it’s over and, while there are issues...
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Finding that Christmas spirit
Once again we come to that major holiday of the year. No matter what religion you are, here in the United States, Christmas is that holiday. If you’re not Christian, it’s hard to not notice. But Ch...
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How to win funds and influence people
This past week was a killer. I participated in a historic conference at the Department of Housing and Urban Development headquarters in Washington, D.C., then headed to New York City for the annual...
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Senior-housing project leads the way
It certainly is a big deal, and we’re part of it. Those are my thoughts on the train as some of us from the dmhFund head to Washington, D.C. for the first-ever LGBT elder-housing summit organized b...
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Debating Lincoln’s homosexuality
Had an amazing dialogue with a historian these past few weeks that brought me back to the 1970s and brought me an incredible revelation that shows how far this community has come. The facts in...
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