Why the LGBTQ community votes
The primaries are here, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many folks will vote by mail during this election, and polling places are...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
I’m old enough to remember when the President of the United States wasn’t an incurious moron recklessly obsessed with his own image. And this...
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...
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...
Public health must come first
Every day, we hear new numbers. One day, it is 314. The next day, it is 224. Every number is a real person —...
There’s good news out there
We’re all going through drastic times together, and our emotions are on a cliff. This seems to be a time when we should 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...
Continuing to cope during isolation
Are you going stir crazy as yet? After nine and a half weeks in isolation, it seems that my sleep and eating habits are...
Trans plaintiff at center of crucial Supreme Court case dies
As the LGBTQ community awaits a Supreme Court decision in R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the plaintiff, Aimee...
Creep of the Week: Republican Party
There is a lot to be worried about when it comes to the public health crisis we are currently in. The biggest worry is,...
Trans care, trans rights and COVID-19
I'll admit, as I write this, I am quite out of sorts. Last week, a friend of mine died due to complications of COVID-19....
Leave it to the experts
The spaghetti sauce was all Donald Trump's fault. Our plan was to spend a Sunday afternoon ignoring any news and staying positive by having...
Organizing during a pandemic
As each week passes, the new reality we live in becomes clearer. Even when orders restricting our movement are lifted, many of us will...
Creep of the Week: Robert Jeffress
In the past month you’ve no doubt seen headlines like, “Can your marriage survive the coronavirus?” or “15 Tips On How To Stay Married...
Coronavirus isn’t the only thing threatening LGBT American workers
Against the backdrop of a public health and economic crisis that is crippling the livelihood of LGBT Americans, another potential labor catastrophe is looming....
Census 2020 is complicated for the LGBTQ community, but it counts
By now, everyone should have received a mailing from the U.S. Census Bureau to get counted. I have complicated feelings about the census.
While the...
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...
Removing trans protections during a pandemic
The U.S. passed 50,000 deaths resulting from the coronavirus and 1 million diagnoses. At the same time, the Trump administration quietly pushed forward a...
Creep of the Week: Kayleigh McEnany
She still looks like the blonde cheerleader she was back in her Tampa high school a dozen years ago. Now, Kayleigh McEnany is head...
LGBTQ response to the coronavirus
Many comparisons have been made between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the new coronavirus pandemic we’re facing today. Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was instrumental in...
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