Dear Civilities: I usually find your advice to be spot-on, but I must tell you (ever so politely) that I take issue with your advice about coming out at a holiday gathering. You said not to, in ...

Dear Civilities: I’m a lesbian going to my gay nephew’s wedding soon. It’s the first same-sex wedding for my family, and I don’t want them to have anything to criticize the couple for — ...

There are times when thinking isn't enough no matter how hard I try, and sadness washes over me in a great wave. It's happening to me now and I want to talk to you about it. Please pretend we're ...

That most adventurous of women travelers, who is known to the reading public as Miss Isabella Bird, and to her friends as Mrs. Bishop, says a London correspondent of the Leeds Mercury, "has just ...

CIVILITIES - A former president of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association and author of "Steven Petrow's Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners" tackles LGBT/straight etiquette in a new ...

preserving the civilities NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED Since the days of Reconstruction and the scandals of the Grant Administration, civil service reform has been a reliable plank in anyone's party platform.