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The challenge of 'Brokeback Mountain' isn't just to straight and closeted viewers. Have you ri... Is screwing around really wor

The challenge of 'Brokeback Mountain' isn't just to straight and closeted viewers. Have you risked for love?

Progress and struggle from the pulpit to TV, from 'the own low' to coming out, during the past year.

Do open relationships prevent gay couples from becoming more intimate and successful?

WE GAY MEN are fighting hard to have our relationships legally recognized. But...

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Mae West's wicked ways still tug at the moral straitjacket.

New York's 54th Street night court was bus...

Offering heartfelt, often painful evocations of Jewish and gay identity, this collection is a bit... Book Review: Secret Annive

Offering heartfelt, often painful evocations of Jewish and gay identity, this collection is a bittersweet rendering of a complex culture.

In 'The Tanteh,' a writer is cursed by his great aunt for telling her tale too faithfully. Polyglot, European, a figure of faded glamour, she`s Jewish in a secular, sophisticated way that`s alien to his family`s faith, one steeped in Passover Seders a...

New York Gov. George Pataki, in his final State of the State address on Wednesday, dangled a tast... Guard the money...

New York Gov. George Pataki, in his final State of the State address on Wednesday, dangled a tasty bit of good news for New York's struggling business climate, especially upstate. But Pataki also talked like a governor with gobs of money - taxpayers' money - burning a hole in the state's pocket. And nothing could be farther from the truth.

Pataki's message to the Legislature to cut ta...

Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain," the so-called gay cowboy movie, is coming your way. And as the a... Mountin' men of 'Br

Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain," the so-called gay cowboy movie, is coming your way. And as the apparent front-runner for 2005's Best Picture Oscar - not to mention a likely box-office hit across the country - it's not going to be easy to ignore.

"Brokeback," which has grossed $15.1 million in a limited release, was one of four pictures to score nominations from both the Writers and Pro...

Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain stars Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as Ennis and Jack, 1960s Wyo... Ang Lee is Most Valuable Hu

Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain stars Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as Ennis and Jack, 1960s Wyoming ranch hands tending sheep on a desolate stretch of back country. They aren't much given to expressing themselves verbally, but doing the same job makes them fast friends... and then something considerably more than that. What at first looks like an inebriated evening of passion becomes the beg...

Almost 500 marijuana plants were found during a search of a Port Gamble Road home Tuesday, accord... Almost $500,000 in Marijua

Almost 500 marijuana plants were found during a search of a Port Gamble Road home Tuesday, according to the West Sound Narcotics Enforcement Team.

Detectives from the narcotics team, assisted by Kitsap sheriff’s deputies, had a search warrant for the home at the 22800 block of Port Gamble Road because the resident there had a warrant out for his arrest.

In all, 483 plants were...

Dinner or drinks afterward is where you can really reap dividends, because that's where feelings... Swing Your Pardner...

Dinner or drinks afterward is where you can really reap dividends, because that's where feelings are discussed. Here, the movie critique is entirely symbolic— talking about Jack (Gyllenhaal) and Ennis (Ledger) is a way of talking about yourselves (which adds a whole different subtext to Ebert & Roeper). Look and listen for cues to elicit favorable comparisons with your date—how the...

You likely recall the Crystal Brame story from 2003—the attractive Tacoma mother of two, ab... Tacoma Confidential: A Tru

You likely recall the Crystal Brame story from 2003—the attractive Tacoma mother of two, abused by her intense husband, David, who, as the city's police chief, appeared immune to discipline or prosecution and led a secret sex life on the side. Years of domestic violence ultimately pushed Crystal to plan a divorce that further angered her armed and controlling partner. Based on phone mess...

Pause. U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens from Alaska, in the to-hell-and-gone Great White North, closer to As... Strongman of the North...

Pause. U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens from Alaska, in the to-hell-and-gone Great White North, closer to Asia than to the lower 48, the pro- Arctic-drilling, bridges-to-nowhere, ice-blue red state where a night lasts from November through January and Republicans outnumber Democrats and other wildlife 3-1? That Ted Stevens? What's he got to do with this?

Longevity, for starters. The cranky conserva...