Since I have used this column in the past to criticise the gay community for lack of participation in the political process, it seems only fair to begin this month’s column with an accolade. The formation of the Rainbow Pac is a welcome sign of…
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Word Column #5
Shortly after I became Executive Director of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, I received a call from someone representing a gay publication, wanting to know whether I would be as accessible to the community as my predecessor had been. As I…
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Word Column #4
One of the things Executive Directors of ACLU affiliates do is make speeches. I probably make ten a month, of one sort or another. Last week, I spoke to a Republican women’s group, many members of which were old friends from my more active…
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Word Column #3
Recently, the publisher of the Word shared with me a “critique” of this paper, and my column, from a national gay paper. The writer had evidently come across a copy, and professed amazement upon learning that my “earnest” efforts were not in the…
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CommentsWord Column #2
Okay, so I’m getting old and cranky. When I opened the paper and read that the voters in Maine had rescinded the state’s new gay antidiscrimination law in a
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