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🏳️🌈 Lessons From a Pink-Stained Wretch
Ensuring fair coverage of LGBTQ issues in the Tribune wasn’t my responsibility, but I made it my mission. This story from 2007 illustrates the good that can happen when queer reporters make themselves heard in the newsroom.
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🏳️🌈 Pinkwishy-Washing
These fair-weather friends didn’t help their reputations — or their bottom lines.
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🏳️🌈 Man, What Are You Doing Here?
Billy Joel says “Piano Man” isn’t about a guy playing in a bar. I say that it’s about a guy who’s *oblivious* to the fact that he’s playing in a gay bar. Every time Joel makes his point, he validates and strengthens my own.
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🏳️🌈 Eight Years Later
Time is supposed to heal all wounds, so why is this one still as painful as ever?
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🏳️🌈 Straight-Up Whiffing
Out at the ol’ ball game? Not if the Texas Rangers have anything to say about it.
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🏳️🌈 Gaydar Detector
We can prove gaydar exists, but we don’t know why it’s there and how it works. (The same is true of quantum physics and reality television.) Here’s my theory.
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🏳️🌈 Presentando a Mi Media Naranja
What’s the best way to describe my better half in Spanish? There are two words for “husband,” and here’s why I’ll only use one of them.
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🏳️🌈 Allies Go to Bat for Pride Games
Allies say Pride games are fabulous. Even the allies who don’t like sports.
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🏳️🌈 Naming a Plague
Before it was renamed AIDS, the disease went by several other names, including Gay Cancer.
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🏳️🌈 Three Words for Allies to Live By
Be a strong ally through empathy, education, and advocacy.