Trump’s ‘don’t kill the gays’ policy
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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...
It’s everyone’s job to educate our youth on LGBTQ struggles and history
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OUTPour: Live life note by note with Sean Bennett
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The question of Jussie Smollett
Jussie Smollett of the TV show “Empire” has recently been in the media and it’s not a pretty story. The short of it: One...
Creep of the Week: Eric Porterfield
Eric Porterfield is blind, literally. According to his website, Blind Faith Ministries, he lost his eyesight in 2006. But Porterfield is also figuratively blind...
Use your words, Mr. President, but correctly
Emergency : A sudden, urgent, usually unexpected occurrence or occasion requiring immediate action; a state, especially of need for help or relief, created by...
Creep: James Greene Sr.
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Elections and whom to support
Once upon a time, the LGBT community had no LGBT choices in politics, only LGBT-friendly candidates, who weren’t LGBT themselves, to endorse. And, once...
Queer, there and everywhere
In the last several weeks, LGBTQ people and issues have been spotlighted in many veins. Very often negatively as with the Trump Administration’s ban...
The women who would be president
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) stood outside in a blizzard on Feb. 10 and declared her candidacy for president of the United States, becoming the...
HRC doing nothing again
The Human Rights Campaign must learn to actually do something other than issue press releases announcing its positions on various federal judicial nominations. The...
Creep of the week: Donald Trump
Donald Trump is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad president. This is something that has been clear to the majority of Americans from...
Pennsylvania, get with the equality program
News came out last week that a record number of pro-LGBTQ bills were introduced in 2018, and that the prospects of many more states...
We need more LGBTQ news, not less
The news was shocking. On Jan. 15, Grindr laid off the entire editorial staff of INTO, their award-winning news site. According to Business Insider,...
Join or Die
For the last couple of years, I spent a lot of time warning of the dangers to come. Now, I no longer have to....
I don’t do movie reviews, but …
There is a movie that by seeing its trailers and advertising on TV, you’d have no expectation that it has any relevance to you...
Creep of the week: Karen Pence
Imagine walking into art class one day in grade school and finding that none other than Karen Pence, wife of Vice President Mike Pence,...
History must not be allowed to repeat itself
At a time when the LGBTQ community is under attack from many sides, we must remember this is not a new story. History must...
Karen Pence must resign
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