Girls will be boys, the old song says, and boys will be girls. That’s certainly true of transgendered people, folks who identify with a gender other than their original biological sex. Some transpeople go no further than...

Editor’s Note: The following letters are in response to Paul Varnell’s column “Death by Homophobia” in the February 28 issue of Lavender: What is it going to take to pass hate-crime legislation? Another person to be murdered...

Love can be found anywhere. With the film Shelter, it comes in the form of a former surfing buddy. Writer and director Jonah Markowitz came up with the idea while he was at home in Colorado: “I saw two guys tossing a Frisbee...

Home & Yard Blvd. Section The irony, of course, is that, despite its location in Downtown Minneapolis, a place founded in 1895 on design is sometimes hard to find. “People who drive by can’t find our store, because the light...

Home & Yard Blvd. Section Concrete is in Brian Kaufman’s blood. His grandfather, Nick, started Kaufman Concrete in North Dakota just after World War II. Some years later, Brian’s father took the company over, and still is...

Home & Yard Blvd. Section Gone for now are the dark, cold winter months. Remind yourself of that every day—it will make you happier…guaranteed. As the days keep getting longer and longer, bring some of that wonderful...

Congressman Keith Ellison (DFL-Minneapolis) is wrapping up his first term representing Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District. I sat down with him in his office to check in about some of this session’s highlights. What was...

Given the tenor of our times, I never would have thought that reading The Wall Street Journal would lead to one of the more inventive GLBT political donor sites on the Web today. But that’s what happened when South Beach-based...