My youngest son recently attended the wedding of two co-workers. It was evidently a very lovely affair–formal, at an expensive Chicago hotel, conducted with meticulous attention to detail. One of those details was a program book, listing the numerous bridesmaids and groomsmen and each one’s relationship to the happy…
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Category Archives: Gay Rights
Prospects for 2002
The fight for equal rights for gays and lesbians has entered mid-life. No longer is the battle solely for personal safety and the absence of the most hurtful kinds of marginalization.
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The People He Has Around Him
My Republican friends have defended President-elect George W. Bush (even while admitting that he may not be the brightest bulb in the lamp) by insisting that he will compensate for his deficiencies by putting “good people” around him.
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Coming Out
I have to admit it—after years of denial, internal struggle with my emotions and with my very identity, I can no longer kid myself. Republicans just don’t attract me any more. In fact, as the years have passed, they have begun to repel me. It wasn’t always like this. Once, I was able to be passionate about them. But the party has changed, and my basic instincts haven’t.
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Shades of the Taliban
Hatred and intolerance are not the exclusive property of demented fundamentalists from the Middle East. We have our home-grown varieties as well.
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