Not gay enough
Last week, the sexual orientation of a candidate for the Pennsylvania state House caused an uproar, but not in the way such attacks normally...
Community gathers, violence continues
This weekend held two events crucial to the local and regional LGBTQ community: OutFest and Philly Trans March. With different missions and intentions, both...
Letters and Feedback
To the Editor: Mark Segal’s recent columns have brought together the history of the fight against intolerance and this year’s acknowledgement of acceptance...
LGBT visibility throughout presidential eras
Mayor Pete’s campaign for the Democratic nomination for president certainly is the surprise of this election cycle. He’s riding an amazing wave, which in...
Josh Duggar
By now you’ve probably heard about the scandalous revelation that Josh Duggar, the oldest child of the Duggar clan, has admitted to molesting five...
Two At-Large seats, one LGBT candidate
Spilled blood over the May Democratic primary between LGBT rivals seems to have cast a shadow over this November's election for LGBT voters, as...
Defining man
Last week, a transgender man filed an antidiscrimination lawsuit after he was fired from a drug-testing facility in New Jersey. In...
Marriage equality and the ACA
Now in full effect, the Affordable Care Act is improving the quality of health care and providing health coverage for Pennsylvania’s uninsured. Moreover, those...
Creep of the Year: Tony Perkins
As 2013 draws to a close, it seems like all anybody wants to talk about is ducks. Well, let me tell you,...
Creep of the week: Mat Staver
Now that Kentucky clerk Kim Davis served time in jail after being held in contempt of court for refusing to issue marriage licenses to...
Picking our next governor
The Philadelphia Inquirer last weekend surprised many in its editorial space; where there was expected to be a gubernatorial endorsement, the editorial board instead...
The long arc of equal-rights history
In the years after the Civil War and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment that freed slaves, Congress debated the status of the black...
Tariffs hurt journalism
By now, with all his lying, you must be immune to Trump’s shrieks about fake news and know that publications like the New York...
Creep of the Week: Gary Cass
By now you’re probably familiar with the It Gets Better Project, but in case you’re not, here’s a little refresher. It Gets...
Creep of the week: Marco Rubio (again!)
There is a certain bench that presidential contenders long to fill. It’s the Holy Grail of appointments: the U.S. Supreme Court. ...
Bracing for the storm
Though the election is more than a month behind us and the holidays are fast approaching, politics has been the dominant topic of late....
Regulating conversion therapy at the municipal level
Recently, there has been a flurry of legislative activity pertaining to conversion therapy, a controversial practice that attempts to eliminate an individual’s sexual desire...
Considering the proposed senior center
The William Way LGBT Community Center board of directors has been engaged in a committed process to conduct due diligence to consider the proposal...
A response to David Fair’s open letter
Conversational space when it comes to issues of racial bias always seems to be co-opted by white cis-gender activists using a momentous issue to...
Trans-parency
The Pennsylvania primary is finally behind us. Whether your candidates won or lost, we can likely all agree that we can use a respite...
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