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5 Reasons Why You Must Not Hide Your Pride on June 29th, 2019!

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On June 29th Howard County’s set to celebrate LGBTQ+ pride…for the first time! In advance of that landmark event, I wanted to talk to two of the people putting it all together. Both of them, Jumel Howard, the event’s Chairperson of the Howard County Pride Committee Chairperson and Alex Kent, its Volunteer Manager, said the same thing when I asked them to speak earlier this week: “Sure, Robert!” A Note on Allies and Angst Yes, I do have some Ally Angst. And by that I mean, I don’t want to be co-opting a struggle that isn’t mine, a heterosexual, cisgender … Read more

Events: Transgender Day of Remembrance Service at UUCC

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I heard myself gasp, “Bruce…” in my sleep. And then immediately after that I heard Robert say, “Colleen! Colleen!” as he shook me awake. My eyes shot open to see him sitting up in bed next to me wearing that disturbed expression that people do when they’re trying to wake you up from a acting out a dream in your sleep. “What happened?!” he asked me. I felt dazed and breathless like Dorothy waking and recounting her dream at the end of The Wizard of Oz. I told him I had seen Bruce, my best friend from high school who … Read more

The Maple Lawn Festival–Sundry Fun Under the Sun

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Colleen and our children, Jared, Rachel, and Joshua, say I tend to overthink things. When my wife would point this out, she’d say,  “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” as the semi-old saying goes, and we’d laugh. You would too, if you heard it in her Bronx accent and imitable tone. But to laugh as hard as I do when she says it, you’d probably have to be as in love with her now as you were the moment you laid eyes on her as she sat in the seventh row of Temple Emmanuel on the Upper East Side … Read more