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...
Creep of the Week: Jeff Sessions
Ah, religious freedom — that call to arms for conservative Christians who believe that they live in some Bizzaro Land-version of America in which...
Creep of the Week: Phillip Hinkle
If I close my eyes and try really hard, I can almost transport myself back to a time when gay sex scandals involving antigay...
Cabletown is LGBT comtastic
This month, 42 years ago, saw me in New York City beginning to fight the battle for equality. At that time, just...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
When the Trump era is written about in history books — assuming we survive that long — if there are any heroes in this...
Memorial day at the (gay) Jersey Shore
I did something this past Memorial Day weekend I haven’t done in years: I spent it in Atlantic City, N. J. There’s a...
Turning back the clock on trans rights
July 1, 2017, could have been a historic day for transgender rights. The military was set to finalize its implementation of a rule...
Creep of the Week: Michael Medved
Happy New Year, everybody! And just in case you wondered if 2011 would find the antigay right as fixated on the complicated genital equation...
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....
Sessions’ surprise
Any LGBT-related news coming out of Washington, D.C., has almost universally been negative for the past four months (has it only been four months?)....
Mosque issue is an LGBT issue
If you picked up almost any newspaper in the nation Monday, you would have seen an article about the proposed Islamic Cultural Center near...
Creep of the Week: Tom McClusky
Call me overly sensitive, but I always thought it was an insult to black people when Bill Clinton was called America’s “first black president....
Human-rights blackout
Much has been made of the lack of attention to human rights by President Trump on his recent excursion to Asia. ...
What the closure of the Blade, Southern Voice means to LGBT media
For those of us in LGBT media, it was a sad week. Our brothers and sisters who work in a variety of...
Creep of the Week: Mat Staver
What I’m about to tell you may surprise you. It may shock you. It may even upset you. But it must be said. Here...
The impact of ICE on trans folks
The current immigration issues are certainly not only an LGBTQ issue. However, members of the LGBTQ-plus umbrella, and specifically trans folks, are not exempt...
What is the greatest lesson you learned in 2017?
Don: The greatest lesson I learned in 2017 is that global warming is REAL! The unstable weather of this year is a direct effect....
Creep of the Week: Janet Porter
“Duck Dynasty” is a gift that keeps on giving for the antigay right. In case you’re like me and don’t care about...
Bill Schuette
A couple of columns ago, I wrote about sitting in a chemo ward getting poison pumped into my body, worried that my insurance was...
Miss California’s missteps
This week, Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton snagged the Miss USA title in Las Vegas, edging out first runner-up Miss California Carrie Prejean after...
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