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,...
Ukraine’s lesson for America
“At Babi Yar there are no monuments,” wrote poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko in 1961, “only the wall of the ravine rising like a tombstone.” If...
We’re all still standing
Pennsylvania has had marriage equality for one month . .. and the world has not imploded. Contrary to the fearmongering promulgated by...
In the Matrix
There really wasn't a lot out there that was aimed at me when I was a young, suburban, closeted trans kid. You might sometimes...
Our Unwritten LGBT History
I’m in Chicago, Skokie to be exact, at the Illinois Holocaust Museum, which is hosting the LGBT history exhibit “Rise Up Stonewall.” The exhibit...
Letters and Feedback
Dear Editor: While I respect and appreciate the work of Liberty City Democrats, I am concerned about two matters that focus on their...
On getting gay-married
As the editor and a former staff writer at PGN, I have been writing about marriage equality for five-and-a-half years. From the...
Times change
As I sit down to write this column. I am picturing myself in a rocking chair on the porch, as if I am about...
Creep of the Week: Council Nedd II
It is Martin Luther King Jr. Day as I write this, which means that people on the Interwebs are debating about whether...
Community in bloom
After a seemingly interminable winter, Philly is finally starting to get a taste of warmer weather — the perfect motivator to get out and...
The presidential pits
When brainstorming for ideas for this week’s editorial, there was one idea that kept trumping the others: We’re feeling blue. It...
Book of the year
When you read this column, once again I’ll be on a plane 35,000 feet in the sky on another trip I never expected to...
Postponing Sheriff Sales is the right thing to do — but it’s far from...
If you’re a human being with at least one compassionate bone in your body, then you don’t like sheriff sales. These events, held to...
DOMA’s still here
The Supreme Court’s ruling on DOMA last month was incredible — a turning point, a tipping point, a critical mass and everything else we...
Top of my profession with Ben Franklin
When you set out to change the world, you never expect to actually see the results of those years of struggle, or to win...
Time to take stock of our health
World AIDS Day has changed dramatically in the two decades since it began. When gay men in the U.S. first commemorated World...
When an epidemic turns political
It amazes me how similar the protections against Covid-19 are to those of HIV/AIDS. If you were around in the early days of AIDS...
Finding family
One of the first disco albums I ever owned was “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge. I didn’t actually buy it; I won it...
Dolce & Gabbana
As I write this, I’m taking a box cutter to my collection of Dolce & Gabbana handbags, shoes and frocks (wait, are frocks a...
Holding police accountable before parade honor
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