Editorials
Long, Hard Look: Separate But Unequal
Should oppressed people oppress others? For some African-Americans, the answer is yes. The raucous scene blew my mind. It took place in 1994: I was involved in a demonstration outside of Baltimore’s City Hall. Inside, the City Council was deliberating on a watered-down measure that would have granted hospital-visitation rights to gay and lesbian couples. [...]
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Post Gay? No Way!
The term “post-gay” keeps popping up in the GLBT media lately. And that worries me a lot. On-line thesaurus Word Spy defines post-gay as “a movement to enable homosexuals to define their identity by something other than their sexual preference.” The term is credited to James Collard, a past editor of Out Magazine who stopped [...]
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Heart to Heart – A True Hero
There's a lot of talk about heroes these days. You can barely go a minute without hearing about the 9/11 heroes, or the heroes of the war on Terrorism, or the heroes of the war on Iraq. It would seem we have a surplus of heroes these days. Well, maybe the world can bear just [...]
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“Don’t Ask, Just Hide”
Military, sports, boy scouts; oh my. What next, our schools? What does it take, when will they learn and how can we drill it into the heads of hetero people. Being gay is not something you learn, it's something you're born with. The same way someone is born with blond hair or brown eyes, with [...]
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Sex, Drugs, and Gay Men
Sex, drugs and gay men. What a combination. I can only say that it's not a combination I would like to be a party to, at least not any longer. What comes from this? All this sex, all these drugs. Do you think you look hotter while holding a mirror in your [...]
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Dead at Thirty?
I was looking through a popular mainstream gay publication the other day. As I drummed through the pages as I normally do, skipping through to the good parts. It dawned on me… Almost every ad in the publication had some 20 something year old clad in some hot pair of jeans or something of [...]
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The Good, The Bad, and the Partner
There is so much that's been said about gay male relationships. They don't last past two years, they're not monogamous, they hold no validity. All this may be true in many cases of gay men relationships, but not all of them. I only know this much: any relationship can only be as good as the [...]
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How Gay Should We Be?
Running down the street jumping off roof tops brazed in pride colors from head to toe, driving down the street in your car with your rainbow stickers plastered to the back, strolling through the mall with your wrist limp and sashaying as if there were no tomorrow, or pierced in both ears dawning club [...]
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Heart to Heart – Our Greatest Challenge
A few weeks ago, I asked a diverse group of gay men and women from all over the world what they thought was the greatest challenge to the gay community. I gave them a list of choices to choose from, and one option for an issue not included on my list. The list and the [...]
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Équipe AlterHéros
Julie-Maude Beauchesne
François Paquette
Dee Gamme
Samuel A.
Marion Téjédor