Letters: To mourn, or not to mourn, Justice Antonin Scalia
Editor: In February 2015, I had the unique opportunity to meet and talk with the late Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a man...
The intersection of faith and LGBTQ identities
Religion and faith are two complicated words in the LGBTQ-plus community. Faith-based organizations have historically contributed to oppression of the LGBTQ community, such as...
Creep of the Week: Karen Handel
Another day, another truly terrible person elected to Congress. America is on a roll when it comes to voting for people who are the...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
As Benjamin Franklin was leaving the Constitutional Convention of 1787, somebody asked him what kind of government the U.S. was going to have. “A...
Letter to the Editor: Advocating for our youth this Pride Month
Editor: We must urge Philadelphians and, by extension, Pennsylvanians, to support protecting LGBTQ+ students and our rights in the educational sphere. We have unique...
The trans body
Transphobia, like homophobia, both use the suffice "-phobia," and while many people might believe it means "fear," it truly means "aversion" in this case....
Creep of the Week: Homophobia and Transphobia
Congratulations to Gavin Grimm. If you don’t know that name, you should, especially if you give a damn about transgender rights and the attack...
Creep of the Week: Roberto Arango
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Puerto Rican Sen. Roberto Arango on his weight loss. I realize that, right...
Creep of the Week: Victoria Jackson
I used to love “Saturday Night Live” when I was a kid. By far one of my favorite cast members was Victoria...
Details of Chaput’s madness
Philly Archbishop Chaput and his wacky “pray-the-gay-away” campaign has scheduled workshops for his priests — sort of a how-to session. Please take note, ACT...
Jeffrey Sutton and Deborah Cook
I was driving home after picking up my son from school when I heard the news that the Sixth Circuit Court had upheld the...
What lies ahead
In statehouses around the country, the 2020 legislative sessions have fired up — and with it, several bills have been introduced to curtail the...
We need more LGBTQ historians
As an undergraduate at Temple University, I was a student member of the committee that founded the women’s studies department. It was an exciting...
Pie in the sky dreams are worth having
I want to share a success story with you, which started in the pages of this very newspaper. Once upon a time, I wrote...
2020: The stakes have never been higher
We’ve survived three years of this administration, but it has done damage to both the country’s reputation and our community. And if you feel that...
Creep of the Week: Tony Perkins
Aside from women daring to make their own reproductive decisions, there’s nothing right-wing conservatives hate more than Pride Month. The “rainbow deluge,” as the...
A hair-raising talk of race, sex and gender
While I typically write about trans issues, this particular piece will not start with a story about a transgender or nonbinary person. Rather, it...
The fight for same-sex parenting in Pennsylvania is not over
Her bright blue eyes stared at me from across the fluorescently lit Target aisle. She had a bright pink bow wrapped around her bald...
Viral post awakens queer community
A tweet by Alexander Leon, an Australia-based writer and activist who works at Kaleidoscope Trust, went viral this week on Twitter. Leon wrote, “Queer...
Men’s sports are due for LGBTQ inclusivity
Last week was the Philadelphia Flyers Pride Night at Wells Fargo Stadium, an event that also honored and interviewed Philadelphia Pride Organizer Franny Price.
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