Creep of the Week: Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman
Well hello, and welcome to another episode of “A Gay is Running for President,” a minute-by-minute freakout by the conservative right — sponsored by...
Masks Are The New Condoms
During the last four months of this pandemic I’ve been doing a daily livestream on Facebook. Every day I say the same thing: “We're...
Black Trans Lives Matter
This week has been a difficult one for Philadelphia’s LGBTQ community, as we lost another Black trans woman, Dominique Rem’mie Fells. We shouldn’t have...
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...
The Olympics Has a Black Woman Problem
Everyone has heard the story of Sha’Carri Richadson, the young American track and field super star who is the fastest woman in America. The...
Two Out Gay Candidates Slated to Win Congressional Seats
Weeks of protests nationwide since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis have been a crash course for America on structural racism and its...
Police violence is LGBTQ history, past and present
The modern LGBTQ civil rights movement was born out of police harassment and brutality against a group of gay men, butch lesbians and trans...
Stop Asian Hate
On March 16, Richard Aaron Long, 21, went to three spa/massage parlors near Atlanta and shot seven women and two men. Six of the...
2020 primary election endorsements
Pennsylvania’s primary election on June 2 is nearing, and the LGBTQ community needs to be heard. Locally, there are five races that are most...
We still need justice for Nizah Morris
Protesters are demanding change and the defunding of police units across the nation as a result of the police killing of George Floyd. In...
Don’t cry for us, Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley, one of the few sane people — and even fewer women — in top positions in the Trump administration and a former...
Stedfast Baptist Church
Welcome to this episode of “Christian Hypocrisy: Anti-Gay Christian Edition.” It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these, so let’s start off...
A reminder to be careful on Grindr and other apps
As more and more people get vaccinated for COVID-19, as the restrictions on various aspects of life are eased, and as warmer weather arrives,...
The power of protest
As someone who participated in the Stonewall riots back in June 1969, many people have been asking me the similarities between that event and...
Creep of the Week: Alex Azar
At the time of this writing, 89,564 people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. An uninterrupted moment of silence for each person would...
Community Response
Every now and then I ask my Facebook friends what I should write about in my weekly column. This week, I was overwhelmed with...
Creep of the Week: James Dobson
In the eyes of James Dobson and other leaders in the far-right corners of Christianity, Donald Trump can do no wrong.
In a Sept. 14...
The difference between Log Cabin Republicans and the LGBTQ community
A few weeks ago in this editorial, we addressed the danger that Log Cabin Republicans pose to the LGBTQ community by endorsing and promoting...
Losing allies is not good
State Rep. Brian Sims, to put it politely, lost his temper with State Rep. Tom Murt this week. This is not the first such...
Creep of the Week: Jerry Falwell Jr.
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