Creep of the Week: Bill McCollum
I’ve never much cared for Florida. I mean, sure, alligators are cool. It has nice weather in the winter and is home...
Boiling over
Recently, two gay men garnered media attention after very publicly expressing dissatisfaction with their employment situations, in very different ways and with very different...
Creep of the Week: Gary Cass
With Proposition 8 being overturned in California, some folks are a little pissed. And the fact that Vaughn R. Walker, the judge...
Biases, boycotts and mosques
I asked my Facebook friends what I should write about this week. Their top suggestions were Proposition 8, Target’s donation to an...
Unanswered questions
DeFarra Gaymon, a prominent CEO from Georgia, made a trip north last month to attend his high-school reunion in New Jersey, an event he...
Creep of the Week: Gary McCullough
Ellen DeGeneres has got to be so pissed at Gary McCullough right now. Everything was going so well for her on “American...
My summer vacation
This is my “What I did on my summer vacation column. ” A week’s getaway to P-Town aka Provincetown. P-town is to New...
Et tu, Target?
On July 27, Target Corp. chief executive Gregg Steinhafel said the company’s support of the gay community is “unwavering.” This came...
Creep of the Week: National Organization for Marriage
You know, nothing says summer lovin’ like jumping in a van and going on a whirlwind national tour to “defend marriage” from depraved homosexuals....
GetEQUAL, get real! Learn!
Let’s face it: GetEQUAL, which has gotten much LGBT media attention of late, needs to mature somewhat. It shows promise, but unfortunately...
Truthiness, or something like it
This week, the head of the Department of Agriculture, Ted Vilsack, fired a black employee after a video clip made its way around the...
Creep of the Week: Rick Santorum
A round of applause for Rick Santorum, everybody. What a brave, brave man. In his July 14 Philadelphia Inquirer column, Santorum...
Breaking up is hard to do
If you’re a regular reader of this column, you’ve read over the last few years about my relationship with Jason. He’s also...
Awkward legal positions
There are three cases right now in which the Obama administration has to defend laws that it has vocalized opposition to: two cases challenging...
Creep of the Week: National Organization for Marriage
If you’ve been hearing air-raid sirens ever since July 8, they’re likely coming from National Organization for Marriage HQ, where everybody is freaking out...
LGBT politics and money
It’s October in July. If you turn on your TV, you’ll note we are already seeing the political ads that usually don’t...
Politics, pride and progress
Gay Pride events take many forms and iterations. It could be a parade and festival, it could be a five-minute march in...
Creep of the Week: Bryan Fischer
You know, it’s really a shame that so many gays and lesbians spend so much time in closets when really it’s the bedroom they...
Remembering, making history
We live, you no doubt have noted, in an instant world. There’s e-mail, cell phones and even instant coffee. And what is...
Letters
Dear Editor: All of us at Mazzoni Center would like to extend our sincere thanks to Chaka Fattah for his eloquent tribute...
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