Food and Drink Features
Charles Martin
Commercial districts across the metro will burst with revelers looking for alternatives to the packed-in crowds downtown.

Features
Brendan Hoover
A 17-year battle for equality for gay service members is ending. A local former Marine who spent years on the front lines of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ reveals his story.

Letters to the Editor
James Nimmo
Are America’s gay and lesbian service members better off with DADT now on the way to the trash can of prejudice? Are gays and lesbians in civilian life better off without DADT on the books?

News
Greg Horton
A new study from The Williams Institute, a think tank affiliated with University of California School of Law in Los Angeles, provides evidence of discrimination against LGBT people in Oklahoma. The study, titled “Employment Discrimination against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in Oklahoma,” combines data from national surveys and state statistics.

Sports
Charles Martin

Easter Bonnet Classic
Saturday-Sunday Bickham Softball Complex
1800 N. Midwest Blvd., Edmond
soonerstatesoftball.com

Commentary
Scott Jones
My first experience of Rep. Sally Kern was in 2005 when she was leading the effort to get books she perceived as having a gay theme banned from public libraries in Oklahoma.

Features
Charles Martin

OKC Pride
4-11 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday-Sunday
The Strip N.W. 39th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
OKCPride.org