Pride

Sin Map: 7 Deadly Sins Mapped Across U.S.

Wired | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living


"...A team at Kansas State just served up a feast: maps of sin created by plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust)."...

How Happy Is...How To Be A Beginner Again (5 Tips)

Sophie Keller | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living


Sophie Keller

It is never too late to start something new, whether you're 75 and want to take up the piano, 55 and are beginning a new profession or 27 and think th...

Gay Pride in New York; 40 Years after Stonewall

Alex Geana | Posted 07.31.2009 | New York


Alex Geana

40 Years after Stonewall, we have many more rights to achieve, the most important being gay marriage, equality, and making sure that every gay person does in fact feel comfortable coming out.

Code Orange And June Bugs

Rochelle Lefkowitz | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics


Rochelle Lefkowitz

It's June, that month more or less identified with weddings -- and Rainbow Pride -- and we seem to have been busily courting a new generation to embrace gay marriage.

Gay Pride Reminds Us That Love Can't Be Legislated

Jason Mannino | Posted 07.12.2009 | Living


Jason Mannino

Love is not something for which we can fight. Fortunately, love is not tangible. It cannot be given or taken away by government legislation.

When All You Have Left Is Your Pride

nytimes.com | BENEDICT CAREY | Posted 05.09.2009 | Living


"I have a new client, a laid-off lawyer, who's commuting in every day -- to his Starbucks," said Robert C. Chope, a professor of counseling at San Fra...

Inauguration Reflection

Bill Allen | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics


Bill Allen

Just yards from where slaves were auctioned and on the steps of a building constructed with slave labor, an African-American took the oath of office in a peaceful passage of power.

Two Parades. Two Coasts. One Hope.

Karen Bass | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics


Karen Bass

Just as Martin Luther King's dream could not have endured if it was his alone, President Obama's hope and promise can't endure if we don't help shoulder the burden.

Living and Dying American

Stephen Herrington | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living


Stephen Herrington

Back then a typical Republican was to the left of the Clintons. Nixon was a transition. It took Reagan to really define the world in which we now live, in which merit is no longer of value.

Broke is the New Cool

Jane Devin | Posted 01.17.2009 | Living


Jane Devin

I've lived dangerously, with no health insurance, no benefits, and precarious hours. Until now, I've harbored something close to shame over my one-ply lifestyle, but no more.

For the First Time In My Adult Life, I'm Proud of My Country

Anya Kamenetz | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics


Anya Kamenetz

Who is this President Obama? He spoke beautifully! He said things didn't just make sense, they were highly intelligent! He was magnanimous in victory!

Debate No. 3: John McCain Should Have Watched His Words

Linda Kulman | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics


Linda Kulman

In assuming ownership of Palin's accomplishments, no matter how thin, he characterized her as an old-fashioned help meet -- you know, the little woman who stands behind every great man.

So Many Boys, So Little Chance

Leslie Goldman | Posted 09.19.2008 | Chicago


Leslie Goldman

I don't know what you all were doing last Saturday at 3pm, but me? I was surrounded by hundreds of half-naked men wearing teeny little bikini briefs, ...

Transgender Rights, Transgender Perks

Kate Bornstein | Posted 07.09.2008 | Living


Kate Bornstein

Exactly what special perks are transgender kids in Juvenile Detention really getting? They get to wear prison uniforms, underwear and hairstyles appropriate to the gender they believe themselves to be.

Pride, A Deeper Love

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 06.10.2008 | Living


Charles Karel Bouley

Marriage isn't anybody's right. No one has a right to gay marriage, it's not in the Constitution. So under the law, there's no given right. The only time the "right" comes up is when someone tries to take it away.

Proud of What?

Mary Lyon | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics


Mary Lyon

I've been deeply ashamed of my country's pursuit of the crooked path extolled by the GOP. My distress arises from the decline of sensible and adult governance, truly objective and honest bipartisanship, and an increase in flat-out money-grubbing