Creep of the Week: Randy Garber
Oh, hey! Did you hear that in Kansas lawmakers are trying to establish the LGBTQ community as a religion? Or, more specifically, they’re trying...
Creep of the Week: Log Cabin Republicans
A day after it was announced that the Trump Administration was planning on making it easier for federal contractors to discriminate against LGBTQ workers,...
Church synod LGBT slap in the face?
For the LGBT community to simply ignore what happened at the Vatican a couple of weeks ago when Pope Francis convened a synod on...
Letters To the Editor: International boycotts
If we’re going to boycott another nation’s products for human rights abuses, how about Saudi Arabia? They aren’t exactly friends to LGBT people and...
Trump’s ‘don’t kill the gays’ policy
Last week, a strange announcement came from the Trump administration. A global campaign, to be led by out U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell,...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump 2
So much anti-LGBT dumbfuckery has emerged after the shooting of 102 people, of whom 49 were killed, by a man with a military-style assault...
World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day is Dec. 1, 2019. Founded in 1988 as the first global health day, World AIDS Day is a time for people...
Creep of the Week: Scott Lively
My youngest sister just got married. To a man. Though she's chosen the heterosexual lifestyle, I accept her.
I visited my local Hallmark store to...
Gina Loudon
Have you ever read something so stupid that you could feel your brain cells committing suicide as you read it? That’s how I feel...
Letters to the Editor – 5/25/19
Dear Editor: For what my opinion is worth, I would not ask Brian Sims to resign. I would be surprised if he has enough...
Creep of the week: Julio Gonzalez
Oh, Florida. You just love being horrible, don’t you? It’s not enough that if you do a Google news search...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
Donald Trump is a racist. Racists are not good people. Therefore, Donald Trump is not a good person. But to other racists, he’s the...
Exist, we must
It’s so damned hard to be transgender right now and just existing is a radical act. It shouldn’t have to be. The Trump Administration...
New Year’s resolution: Time for the LGBTQ community to quit the tobacco industry
“Whenever someone yells, ‘Dude, that’s so gay,’ we’ll be there.” “Freedom. to speak. to choose. to marry. to participate. to be. to disagree. to...
Fix it
Early in the morning of Dec. 28, a 17-year-old trans woman by the name of Leelah Alcorn was struck and killed by a semi-truck...
Is the queer community eating its own (again)?
Two years ago I wrote this op-ed for The Advocate. I think these words are as true today as they were then. In my...
Revealing, but not what you think
In 2008, a woman named Jenna Karvunidis sliced open a cake, revealing pink frosting within the layers. With her, the “gender reveal party” entered...
Real political power and you
Have you ever thought about combining politics and a hobby with community service, and at the same time being a cog in the wheel...
Letting Obama build coalitions
The Rev. Rick Warren ... community, get a grip! Or, to put it more diplomatically, give the president-elect room to create a...
A pilgrimage to where my hero lies
Over the holidays, I had the closest thing to a pilgrimage that I'll ever know.
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