Had Mitt Romney won the election, the gay community would have hit a stone wall. Instead, President Barack Obama’s historic inauguration speech mentioned Stonewall, the New York City gay bar where patrons fought back against a police raid in 1969. That Obama did so while invoking Seneca Falls and Selma [...]

This week marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case which held that a woman’s right to choose is fundamental under the United States Constitution. Today, 64 percent of Americans agree with this ruling and a new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll shows that 70 percent [...]

If the average American’s life expectancy is somewhere between 75 and 80 years, that’s 75 to 80 years of collecting, nostalgia, memorabilia and inheritance.

The headline stories of the week, the president’s new initiatives on gun control, the NRA’s staunch opposition to them, and discredited cyclist Lance Armstrong’s confessions, are interconnected in disturbing ways that should give any decent person pause. They can be subsumed under attorney for the U.S. Army’s Joseph N. Welch’s [...]

In June, the Washington Metro area was hit with a sudden and powerful derecho storm. Many Northern Virginians were without power and thus air conditioning for nearly a week during a sweltering heat wave. Most frightening was the failure of numerous 9-1-1 call centers across several states. All told, the [...]

For 50 years, Bob Jones University, in Greenville, South Carolina, prohibited interracial dating and Bob Jones Jr. once claimed that Catholicism was a “satanic counterfeit” of fundamentalist Christianity.

Manicure? Check. Blowout? Check. Maxed out AmEx from charging new dress? Check. Fresh waxing even though he won’t see my treasure trove for another three dates? Check. I am a firm believer in the idea that you never get a second chance to make a first impression. I wasn’t much [...]

There are many forces at work in our world today – climate change, Arab Spring, population growth, and mass migrations to name a few. Some of these forces may come to impact our lives in the coming year while others may not be perceptible for decades. Our concern here is [...]

A small business owner friend of mine was greeted by a letter this week from a mega-bank creditor demanding full payment of a loan within one month despite the fact that he’s never missed or been late on a payment in nine years.

Each time I visit my parents in South Florida I am amazed by the evolution of the gay scene. It was an exhilarating, yet terrifying, time when I first came out of the closet in Fort Lauderdale in 1988. The majority of LGBT people weren’t out and those who were [...]