Slap a flag on it
This pride season, I have a new enamel pin on my jacket, displaying the five stripes of the transgender pride flag. They are within...
Stop the Assault on LGBTQ Kids
During Pride many of us post our coming out stories on social media. Mine is different than most. At 16, I was expelled from...
A great idea, but is it too late to make a real difference?
There are so many items to check off our to-do list in the movement to Equality, and sometimes we miss an idea whose time...
The dual nature of Pride month
Pride month is a lot of things to a lot of people. It’s a time for joy and for pride at how far we’ve...
Kay Lahusen’s extraordinary impact on LGBTQ equality
If you’ve seen photographs of the 1965-69 Independence Hall Demonstrations, where gay men and lesbians marched demanding equality, chances are that picture was taken...
A tribute to Kay Lahusen
While it was somewhere in my thoughts, I somehow never thought it would really ever happen. After all, the Kay I knew was a...
Why we have to talk about the GOP
It’s a conundrum. Democrats, progressives and even the center left media don’t want to give Marjorie Taylor Greene a scintilla more oxygen to spew...
The Power of Our Votes
Progressives won the Philadelphia primary. The whole country was watching Philadelphia to see how the city would vote in the crucial DA’s race. This...
Creep of the Week: Rep. Jeremy Faison
You know how they say ‘there’s no such thing as bad publicity?’ And also how they say ‘don’t feed the trolls?’
Well, in a convergence...
This summer, support the LGBT community when you travel
Now that the vaccines have proven to be incredibly effective, life is slowly returning to whatever pre-pandemic norms it can. That includes vaccinated friends...
Biden puts U.S. on LGBT world stage
Last week I wrote that the U.S. State Department sent out a directive to all U.S. embassies throughout the world. Simply put, it told...
A few words about Caitlyn Jenner
I really don’t want to talk about Caitlyn Jenner. Rather, I find myself in the unenviable position of having to write about Caitlyn Jenner....
Creep of the Week: Ken Harrison
I haven’t thought about Steve Bannon in a hot minute. Best minute of my life, now that I think about it.
But all good things...
If you don’t vote, you don’t care about the LGBT community.
It’s no secret that the percentage of voters drops significantly for non-presidential elections. The belief that local and state elections don’t matter is an...
Many countries still reject, torture and kill LGBT people
President Biden has stated that our foreign policy would be based on human rights which include the respect for LGBT rights. His Secretary of...
Greg Yorgey-Girdy — A Voice for Progress
A recent headline in Forbes read that 2021 will “become a record-breaking year for anti LGBTQ Laws.” As a gay, Black man who grew...
LGBT people fuel the travel industry
As you might have noticed from the cover of this issue, this is National Tourism week. But what does that have to do with...
Liz Cheney, the GOP, and Us
Liz Cheney is headline news. The sole member of the House from Wyoming, population just under 600,000, is — as of this writing —...
Postponing Sheriff Sales is the right thing to do — but it’s far from...
If you’re a human being with at least one compassionate bone in your body, then you don’t like sheriff sales. These events, held to...
What does it feel like?
For the moment, I want to speak to those readers who may not think of themselves as transgender.
You may think of transgender people as...
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