Asking Hard Questions
"Even though we are overwhelmed by the tragedies of the past month, we must avoid falling into the mainstream lockstep of jingoism and war-mongering."
Angela
"The student body was nearly identical to my own high school in size and cultural makeup. It had been ten years since I’d heard locker doors slamming. It felt like prison."
How to talk to a Republican
"After all, what heterosexual came up with the phrase pregnant chads? If it had been up to a queer, we would have called them dingleberries."
Roanoke tragedy hits close to home
"Ronald Gay, like it or not, was a member of the gay community. He's one of countless non-gay people who have been taunted all their lives either because of their name or because people think they're gay.'"
DIVORCE, LGBT Style
"When Julie Cypher and Melissa Etheridge broke up, my mother asked me one question: 'What will happen to the children?'"
San Francisco is Over
"We've all licked our chops over the city's proverbial golden eggs, but the goose is getting evicted."
Why I Never Made it to Eagle Scout
"Cub Scouts was fairly benign. We boys got in fights, made wooden cars for the Pinewood Derby, and picked up trash all over Rockbridge County. The good stuff started when we became Webelos."
Should I Stay or Should I go
"I’m completely befuddled about whether to go to the Millinery March on Washington in April."
Finding the Redneck Within
"As fate would have it, I moved all the way to San Francisco to get in touch with my inner redneck."
Of Books and Men
"There are at least two kinds of men in the world: those who read and those who don’t."
Mayday, Mayday!
"I’d heard tiny whispers about the Faeries, but had no idea what to expect."
Hug a Novice
"My experience with leather, up until this point, had been pretty much limited to a braided Pierre Cardin belt."
Needles and Pins
"When I was 17 I took my first HIV test at the Lexington Health Department and spent 2-1/2 weeks in a panic."
Learning History by Half-light
"The notion that laws against bathhouses protect us from further seroconversions is infantilizing and disempowering."
I was a Teenage Lesbian
"It was hormonal. She was butcher than all the men I’ve ever dated put together."
How I Learned to Snap
"Chris was the town faggot, and much of what I know about dignity came from him."
Cute Boys with Clip Boards, at Midnight
"He keeps trying to bring me back to his questionnaire with questions like “How many partners 
have you had in the past three months?”"
Why My Next Boyfriend will be a Plumber
"Okay, so I had a bad dating experience. With a doctor."
