Political IQ: The 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Wimp Out
By Diane Silver Aaron Belkin, Nathaniel Frank, Gregory Herek, Elizabeth Hillman, Diane Mazur and Bridget Wilson took Barack Obama's last excuse away. The two [...]
Creep of the Week: Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio
Last week the Pew Research Center released the results of a survey that found Americans caring a lot more about things related to their pocketbooks and [...]
Lobby Days are crucial, a merger is not
Thank you, Between the Lines, for publicizing and covering the All American Lobby Day. We truly appreciate all the newspaper has done to help keep LGBT youth [...]
Negative recruiting: positively wrong
By Dan Woog The OutField Imagine this: A college coach tells a high school prospect, "Don't go to (name of a rival school). There are lots of black people [...]
Parting Glances: It beez that way sometimes
I can't count the times I've biked the Dequindre Cut recently. It's a mile and a quarter of get-away biking paths between Gratiot Avenue and the Detroit [...]
Viewpoint: Celebrating Memorial Day with pride
Being in Washington, D.C. on Memorial to celebrate Black Gay Pride is one of life's contradictions. Thousands of out and proud African-American gay, lesbian, [...]
Creep of the Week: Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher
Ah, Joe the Plumber. That quintessential everyman all good Americans strive to be: hardworking, heterosexual, white male, and strongly opinionated without any [...]
Letters to the Editor
Affirmations: Stop your censorship! Responses to the article "Photos deemed 'too sexual' for Affirmations" and the concurring editorial, "Art is meant to [...]
Parting Glances: Tempest in a cracked paint pot
Back in the "good old days" of Great Depression #1, following Stock Market Crash '29 – years and years – well, at least a galloping few – before my time, the [...]
The Gay Moralist: Growing older, gratefully
By John Corvino This column hits the Internet around my 40th birthday. Forgive a middle-aged columnist for indulging in some reminiscing. Little reminders of [...]
Creep of the Week: Matt Barber
Ever since Supreme Court Justice David Souter announced that he is retiring, the blogosphere has been abuzz about whom President Obama will appoint to replace [...]
Parting Glances: Turning Sister's other cheek
I don't know how she does it. I hadn't more than stepped one minute out of my morning ice-cold, therapeutic shower – my designer shower cap in hand – when my [...]
