Steve Charing OUTspoken

Commentary on LGBTQ and political issues plus theatre reviews and sports.

Friday, March 24, 2006

Homophobia before 'The Dance'

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Duke’s J.J. Redick shrugs off fans’ taunts with class and courage By Steve Charing As the college basketball spectacle called "The Big ...
Monday, March 20, 2006

The Military's Double Standard

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Letter Published in Washington Post Monday, March 20, 2006; Page A14 I commend the March 7 editorial "Now Repeal the Ban," which a...
Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Speech to River Hill HS (Columbia, MD) National Honor Society--3/15/06

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Character: Human rights and social conscience… The Declaration of Independence proclaims: "We hold these truths to be self-evident that...
Sunday, March 12, 2006

You Don't Have to be Coupled to Want Marriage

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By Steve Charing Senior Political Analyst Many, if not most, in the lgbt community are not involved in long-term relationships at any given ...
Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Gay Political Apathy is Hurting Us

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Mt. Vernon-Bolton Hill residents and other local lgbt need to step up By Steve Charing Senior Political Analyst On the surface, one can easi...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Lobby Day Was Just the Beginning

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More lgbt involvement needed to achieve equality By Steve Charing Senior Political Analyst Nearly a thousand lgbt folks and their supporters...
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Saturday, February 04, 2006

The Death of a Civil Rights Icon

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She was a major advocate for lgbt equality By Steve Charing Ironically, on the day Judge Samuel Alito was confirmed as justice to the Supre...
Friday, January 27, 2006

Don't Let Them Fool You

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The pro-amendment rhetoric is not about protecting marriage By Steve Charing Senior Political Analyst Now that a Baltimore Circuit Court jud...
Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Calendar Boy in Motion

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By Steve Charing ©2006 If you celebrated New Year’s Eve at the Hippo, you couldn’t help but notice the gyrating, shirtless, blond dancer ato...
Monday, January 16, 2006

Time to Play Some 'D'

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Lobby Day set to rally against anti-lgbt legislation By Steve Charing The sports metaphors abound: "The best offense is a good defense...
Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Bashing Back

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Letter to (Baltimore) City Paper-- Published 1/18/06 The letter written by Leo Williams in the City Paper was nothing more that a diatribe ...
Tuesday, January 03, 2006

I Can Dream, Too

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By Steve Charing As we flip the calendar to a new year, we will be observing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 16. I think of Dr. King ...
Thursday, December 22, 2005

Dinner embodied the love at the heart of the holidays

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Letter to Howard County Times --Published 12/22/05 Amidst the silly furor over how retailers should be marketing their products during their...
Sunday, December 18, 2005

Going for Brokeback

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Why ‘Brokeback Mountain’ is an important film to the lgbt community By Steve Charing While the Hollywood film industry has been suffering at...
Monday, December 12, 2005

They're trying to take over

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At some point our country needs to stand up to such extreme Christian conservative groups like the American Family Association and Focus on ...
Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Here's My New Year's Revolution

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By Steve Charing Our nation was born out of the American Revolution. We did just fine plowing through the Industrial Revolution. We partied ...
Saturday, November 19, 2005

A Model for Advocacy

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How a local PFLAG chapter is working behind the scenes for YOU By Steve Charing While most members of the lgbt community are going about the...
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Steve Charing
This blog contains a compilation of recent articles--mostly political, sports and local theatre reviews-- appearing in MD Theatre Guide, Baltimore OUTloud, Washington Blade, Gay Life, Outsports.com, published letters, and commentary. My letters to the editor have appeared in such publications as TIME, USA Today, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Columbia Flier/Howard County Times, City Paper (Baltimore)and Washington Blade. I have a wonderful spouse who has been the love of my life since February 1980. I married him on July 23, 2009 in Provincetown, MA--our first and favorite vacation spot. Comments are welcome directly on the blog but personal attacks will not be allowed. NOTE: Feel free to share the link to my posts but the contents may not be lifted without attribution .
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