The power of no
You might have noticed that this summer has been slightly different for me, but that comes after five years of constant motion. People keep...
Entering the home stretch
We are less than 90 days away from opening the new LGBT-friendly affordable senior apartments here in Philadelphia. But don’t cheer for...
Love lessons
It’s easy to get discouraged in our current political climate. When the news is dominated by travel bans, bias attacks and chaos in our...
Creep of the Week: Ben Carson, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz
Making sure that gays and lesbians were never afforded legally recognized marriages was the focus for the antigay right for so long. So many...
Mapping out our future
Democrats achieved a big win earlier this week when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled the state’s congressional map unconstitutional. In a 5-2 decision, the...
Beck’s honor
It’s funny how you attempted to write a negative editorial about the Restoring Honor rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on 28...
The Lines Blur
Caster Semenya is a South African middle-distance runner. She took home Olympic gold in 2012 and 2016 and has won the world championships three...
Channeling Stalin
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but life is getting pretty damn scary for gays and lesbians in Russia. Russian President Vladimir...
Surveying the health of our communities will save lives during a pandemic
As a fifty-five year old gay man who survived the terrifying early years of the AIDS epidemic and who is committed to weathering our...
Buried treasure
For all of us, there is a precious item that brings back pleasant memories. Just the thought of it brings joy. For...
Keep up the fight
The appalling white nationalist violence in Virginia earlier this month, and our president’s unbearably terrible response, set off demonstrations by racial- and social-justice activists...
Being seen
I grew up in a Southern California suburb in the 1970s, a short distance from the smog-filled skies of Los Angeles. It was a...
Tragedy on the tracks
Philadelphia was struck by tragedy this week when an Amtrak derailed, killing eight people and injuring dozens more. While the incident itself is not an...
Networking 101 (for those who hate networking)
Philadelphia is fast becoming a hot destination for conventions and conferences. Most conventions are actually more about networking and less about programming:...
Emotional news roller-coasters
It seems that some weeks are more emotionally trying than others when it comes to covering the news in the LGBT community. ...
A beacon of hope
Recent reports say that 0.7 percent of teens identify as transgender. At the same time, a recent study from the American Academy of Pediatrics...
Staying safe this season
From the Police Liaison Committee The holiday season is upon us, but it is also the season to be wary of burglars,...
Creep of the Week: Matt Barber
Have you punched a gay middle-schooler for Christ today? Well, you’d better do it fast, because Barack Obama is trying to take this God-given...
Remember
George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Michael Lorenzo Dean, Eric Reason, Christopher McCorvey, Christopher Whitfield, Atatiana Jefferson, Dominique Clayton, Pamela Turner, Botham Jean, Antwon...
Food insecurity rife during the pandemic
Philadelphia is hungry. Mara Thompson knows this first hand because she has been hungry herself and now, during the pandemic, has been delivering food...
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