The dog days of quarantine
Like many of you, Jason and I are going into our eleventh month of quarantine lockdown, or as we are now calling it, the...
MassResistance
Just about all LGBTQ people have a story about something that confirmed for them that they were LGBTQ. For me, it was Lynda Carter...
Should we out Catholic bishops?
Seriously, is it time to start to outing closeted U.S. Catholic Bishops? Let me help you out with an answer to that question. If...
Creep of the Week: Gigi Gaskins
I remember it like it was yesterday: Trump supporters flying flags that said, “Fuck your feelings,” wearing T-shirts that said “Suck it up, Buttercup”...
Creep of the Week: John Horvat II
In 1994, the Insane Clown Posse released a record titled "The Terror Wheel." It featured heartfelt classics such as "The Dead Body Man" and...
Why we need to care about unsolved trans deaths
Nizah Morris. Rita Hester. Marsha P. Johnson. Three icons in the trans community. Three unsolved deaths. Marsha P. Johnson is famous worldwide for her...
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...
Creep of the Week: Racism
I’m writing this on June 1, the beginning of Pride month. Simultaneously, across the country, people are protesting and tensions are escalating over the...
It’s all over, Dems have a nominee
What a headline and maybe premature, but not given a major or several major mistakes at the debate this Sunday between Biden and Sanders....
Getting vaccinated is an act of LGBTQ equality
There’s an extremely simple, low-risk and high-reward thing you can do to help further LGBTQ equality: get a COVID vaccine. The upside to getting...
Creep of the Week: Trump Supporters
By the time you read this, Joe Biden will be the President and the worst president in U.S. history will be history. I truly...
Thank your local LGBT newspaper for web freedom
This newspaper you are reading right now most likely had a major effect on your life that you may not even know about. Do...
Creep of the week: Ted Cruz’s face
Ted Cruz is creepy. That’s not only a widely held opinion, it’s scientific fact. George Washington University neurology professor Dr. Richard...
One Year Later, The Same, Different World
One year ago, at the press conference for World Pride in New York City, “POSE” star Indya Moore spoke about their friend Layleen Polanco,...
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...
The reasons LGBTQ people have more health problems
Last week, a newly released CDC report found that LGBTQ people have a higher prevalence of health conditions — such as asthma, cancer, heart...
Creep of the Week: Mike Pompeo
I’m in Philadelphia visiting my sister, and apparently during my trip there were Nazis marching here and chanting “fuck the gays.” Ah, America.
Meanwhile, people...
Creep of the Week: Ben Kinchlow
It has come to the attention of many people, including and especially, many Republicans, that Donald Trump is a Looney Tunes character come to...
Focus, Activism Needed Now
On Oct. 15, I asked Joe Biden a question at his Philadelphia town hall about Amy Coney Barrett’s rushed Supreme Court confirmation process and...
I’m angry
Right now, transgender people in America are under assault.
I mean that most literally. In the last four months, 14 transgender people — predominately trans...
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