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.

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 ...

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 ...

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. The "best people" have embraced it almost ...