Is There A Right Way To Come Out?

Coming out is an event that all LGBT people must go through, and two recent events were cause for me to think about how we face the challenge. First, there was Roy Ashburn, the California state senator whose March 3 arrest on a DUI after leaving a gay club eventually led to the March 8 [...]

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One article that did not generate as much attention as it deserved is a commentary from Douglas Foster, a professor at Northwestern University. Earlier this month, Foster penned an essay that provides insight into the challenges many black gays have integrating their sexuality with their racial identification. Titled “Black, Gay and Indisputably African,” the essay [...]

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With David Boies and Ted Olson’s federal challenge to Proposition 8 approaching trial date, one of the state’s star defendants is having second thoughts. Hak-Shing William Tam, who by his own admission spent the majority of his time between January and November 2008 working to pass the gay marriage ban, now says he wants to [...]

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Who would have thought so many people were fine with adults having sex with children? That is the only conclusion I can make after seeing the outpouring of support for director Roman Polanski, who was arrested in Switzerland on September 26  on an outstanding warrant concerning a 1977 case involving drugs, alcohol, and sex with a [...]

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