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    ‘Small Cars’ Made for Size Queens

    ‘Small Cars’ Made for Size Queens

    Size queens rejoice: small cars are getting bigger. Witness the Mini Countryman, with its four doors and chunky, SUV-ish posture. Countrymen seem to be parked on every third block in…

    Loving and Living the Questions

    Loving and Living the Questions

    Never before has the legal case for nationwide marriage equality seemed stronger than at the recent Federal Court of Appeal’s argument in the Indiana and Wisconsin marriage cases. For nearly…

    What’s Wrong with Being ‘Needy’?

    What’s Wrong with Being ‘Needy’?

    Eric has been single for five years. He’s a relationship-oriented guy. He longs to connect with someone new, but he won’t let himself do it because he believes he isn’t…

    Use the F Word Often

    Use the F Word Often

    After al-Qaeda murdered her husband in 2002, Mariane Pearl sought to better understand forgiveness, or as she calls it, “The F Word.” Pearl founded The Forgiveness Project, a charity that…

    Authors Owen Keehnen and Rizi Xavier Timane Share How Writing Helps Us Heal

    Authors Owen Keehnen and Rizi Xavier Timane Share How Writing Helps Us Heal

    Michele Karlsberg: Did you learn anything from writing your book and what was it?  Owen Keehnen: Young Digby Swank is a novel about a gay Catholic kid coming of age…

    What’s Hue Got to Do With It…

    What’s Hue Got to Do With It…

    To most interior designers, 50 Shades of Grey is less erotic thriller than a primer for choosing the perfect shade of grey.  Color is deeply embedded into the human psyche…

    Final Recap on the Gay Games, Upcoming Events

    Final Recap on the Gay Games, Upcoming Events

    By Tony Jasinski The Gay Games is the biggest event in gay sports, with possibly the Gay Softball World Series being second. Here are a handful of moments that came…

    Women’s Weekend on the Russian River Comes Full Circle

    Women’s Weekend on the Russian River Comes Full Circle

    “Women’s Weekend,” the classic women’s music and comedy festival that has been happening in the Russian River area for over 27 years, is being reinvented by its original founder. In…

    Real Estate and the Homogenizing of the Bay Area

    Real Estate and the Homogenizing of the Bay Area

    This is not going to be an article about how wonderful the East Bay is with its many charms versus how terrible the West Bay is with its high prices,…

    Long Live the Laughter

    Long Live the Laughter

    By Karen Williams As the nation mourns our comedy giant’s untimely death, as the memories of his generosity wash over us, as we accept the loss of the comic genius…