Archive for November, 2011

“Whether or not it was honest, or dishonest, that is up to the voters.” A CNN correspondent made that comment yesterday to conclude a segment on the Mitt Romney TV commercial that took

Launching this series in October 2010, I explained that my title, “Gay Science,” came not only because it was apt in its own right, but also because it referred to a work of the same

Thanks to a swift intervention by GLAAD, a PBS commentator quickly apologized for allowing bigoted comments on his show by a leader of the Family Forum that associated heinous child rape at Penn

Waking up in the middle of the night Tuesday morning, which happens sometimes when I neglect to pop my melatonin before bedtime, I checked my Twitter account on line to discover a furious cascade

Gay activist and playwright Larry Kramer, interviewed in advance of a reading in Washington, D.C. of his 1985 AIDS era play, “The Normal Heart,” has changed little over the years. He

Former President Bill Clinton’s new book released Tuesday, Back to Work, is partially useful but mostly disappointing. First, of course, one must navigate away from the highly annoying

For gay men during the AIDS Dark Age (1981-1996), during which time an estimated 400,000 of us died horribly and way too soon, there was nothing more valued than life, itself, and as Prior, the

With the U.S. economy still stumbling along in its worst crisis since the Great Depression, it is long past time to use the current conditions as an opportunity to rethink some core values that