Creep of the Week: Jerry Cox
Newsflash: Homosexuality and pedophilia are not the same things. Equating the two makes as much sense as equating adopting a pet kitty...
Creep of the Week: Pamela Geller
Anthony Weiner is gross. The former Congressman who resigned in disgrace after he was caught sharing photos of his crotch on social media is...
Winter 2017 Reflections
So what do we say in the aftermath of all these recent events? Will you accept this new world? Will you support him in...
In 2022, let’s face the music and dance
On Christmas morning I counted my blessings over breakfast in a hotel restaurant. It was a balmy day, so afterward I sat at one...
Creep of the Week: Matt Bevin
Kentucky sure knows how to pick ’em, don’t they? Gov. Matt Bevin (Tea Partier and Kim Davis’ BFF) was sworn in on Dec. 9,...
Creep of the Week: Kevin Swanson
Welp, Roy Moore (R-Pedophile) lost to Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama, a true Hanukkah miracle, probably prompted from Roy Moore’s wife saying Moore isn’t...
Picking ourselves back up
It’s been quite a week for America. People dealt with the fallout of the shocking presidential election in myriad ways. Maybe...
Welcome Archbishop Nelson Perez
Welcome to Philadelphia, Archbishop Nelson Perez. You are the breath of fresh air that the Archdiocese of Philadelphia needed.
I say that after spending...
My life is not your hypothetical
Across the country, right now, state legislators are once again pushing bills that seek to legislate transgender lives.
In some states, the focus is on...
Taking on Westboro
A few weeks ago, I got a call from my friend Michael Smerconish, formerly of MSNBC and now on CNN. We met...
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...
Rainbow Flag Day
During the government shutdown this fall, my partner, Traci, and I found ourselves in Philadelphia with a handful of useless tickets to the important...
James David Manning
I think we all know that Starbucks is a little, well, gay. I mean, they sell drinks like the Gingerbread Latte, Peppermint Mocha and...
Creep of the Week: Richard Land
I’ve been critical of antigay folks for a long time. I’ve even been known to call them names (“creep,” for example), but...
A prayer for the nation and our next president, Barack Obama
Opening Inaugural Event, Jan. 18, 2009, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. Welcome to Washington! The fun is about to begin, but first,...
I kissed a girl
It’s all the rage, again: Same-sex kissing done for laughs. This week, on the MTV Movie Awards, there were two same-sex...
A tale of two states
Despite the scant distance between New Jersey and Pennsylvania, this week shone light on the widening ideological gap between the two states. ...
An end-of-summer roundup of legislation
It’s the last week of summer and, at this time, this column usually takes a look at some issues with a slight twist. ...
A holiday wish
So, once again, we reach the closing of the year. When I was much younger than I am today, as the scent of the...
Queering the campus
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