Baltimore City Paper

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Jefferson Jackson Steele

SPECIAL

Something Old, Something New: City Paper’s Third Annual Queer Issue | Introduction

The Sanctity of Queer: Marriages, Mortgages, Kids—Remember When Being Queer Wasn’t About Becoming Like Everybody Else? | Feature by Rahne Alexander

Straddling The Fence: Politicians Try To Court The Gay Vote Without Losing Anyone Else’s | Feature by Edward Ericson Jr.

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: After Struggling to Create Unions, Same-Sex Couples Must Fight Just as Hard to Dissolve Them | Feature by Auriane de Rudder

Clique and Drag: Mr. And Miss Gay Maryland Discuss The Local Drag Scene | Feature by Jess Harvell

Pride Guide: Your Guide To Pride 2006 | Feature by John Farley and Wendy Ward

Comics Feature

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NEWS

Scoring Data Points: Baltimore’s Drug Treatment System is a Model—But No One Knows How Well It Works | Mobtown Beat by Edward Ericson Jr.

Gag Order: The U.S. | Quick and Dirty by Van Smith

Missing Crime: According the city’s much-touted management tool CitiStat, which ostensibly uses hyper-accurate data mapping to achieve government accountability, Greektown hosted eight crimes during the two-week period ending May 27. | Quick and Dirty by Van Smith

Councilmania | Murder Ink | The Mail | The News Hole

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COLUMNS

Hate Sells: Here’s a joke for you: Ann Coulter is a whore. | Political Animal by Brian Morton

Pandemic: better than the Olympics because this is a Sport with Measurable Results. | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod

Not Our Fault: ...it is the most cynical, disingenuous, and hypocritical treatise on the state of American political life that I’ve read in the past year. | Right Field by Russ Smith

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