Continued progress on Pennsylvania’s LGBTQ health in 2017
More than one year after marriage equality became the law of the land nationwide, President Obama, Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell and my colleagues and...
Growing the gay identity in the new millennium
“Why do we need to grow?” the reader may well ask. “We’re out and proud. Plus, we’re gaining more legal protections each year and...
Let’s end SEPTA’s gender-identity discrimination
Some of you may have heard about the discriminatory policies employed by SEPTA when it comes to the use of gender markers on some...
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch
That blue wave that every political pundit and journalist keeps telling us is almost a sure thing in November? For those of you not...
Creep of the Week — Tom Cotton
OK, let’s get one thing straight here. If you are an everyday American citizen (a commoner, let’s say), you have very little...
Evolving ideas and policies regarding gender
Pennsylvania will soon join 13 states and Washington, D.C. that already offer the gender designation of X on state-issued IDs. While it’s no surprise...
Creep of the Week: Wes Goodman
Something totally unprecedented has happened and I am not sure how to break this news to you, my loyal readers. In fact, I doubt...
Letter: On Saul Ewing’s partnership with Name Change Project
Timothy Cwiek’s article about Saul Ewing’s partnership with TLDEF’s Name Change Project on Feb. 4 did an excellent job of describing that program and...
Are taxpayers paying to pray the gay away?
Most of the world has finally begun to laugh at the idea of “praying away the gay.” That is, with the exception of Philadelphia...
The Lines Blur
Caster Semenya is a South African middle-distance runner. She took home Olympic gold in 2012 and 2016 and has won the world championships three...
Creep of the Week: Priests for Life
Warning! A three-headed beast is on the loose, and it’s coming for the children. Specifically, the unborn. I know what you’re...
Creep of the Week: John K. Bush
When America wakes up from the nightmare of the Donald Trump presidency — assuming we survive it, of course — we will be left...
What’s in a name?
For numerous parents having a child is a wonderful event in their lives. Questions begin immediately: When is the baby due? Will it...
It’s my body
Traversing transgender medical care is a handful. When I started out, you had to go to two different therapists for evaluation — which took...
Is North Korea gay-friendly?
With the North Korea situation being in front of the news, the answer to that question is simple: No. But it gives us an...
Creep of the Week: Steve King
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Steve King is in trouble. It seems, and I take no delight in saying...
Creep of the week: Ben Carson (again!)
Whether you call them “special rights” or “extra rights,” it has long been the argument of the anti-gayers that what LGBT people want goes...
Change is good?
Change is good — at least that’s what the expression is. At times it is, and other times it’s not. But when you are...
Off to a bumpy start
Having hoped to view the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, the openly gay bishop of the Episcopal Church, deliver the historic opening to...
Safe sites
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