Make us count
Visibility is power. Conversely, invisibility is oppression — and that’s just what the Trump administration is seeking to do to LGBT Americans. ...
I asked, you answered
Every so often I ask my Facebook and Twitter friends (about 30,000) to suggest subjects for me to address in this column. Here are...
Creep of the Week: Steve King
We all remember back in the 1850s when a well-known politician famously said, about the influx of Irish immigrants to the United States, “Culture...
In lieu of leaders
Less than three months into the year, seven transgender women of color have been murdered. It is a sobering statistic: Apart...
Creep of the Week: Dave Daubenmire
Hi there! What are you up to? Me, I’m just reading about the Republican plan to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act that...
The rise (and fall) of an LGBT miniseries
How many of you watched the ABC miniseries “When We Rise”? Not many, according to the ratings. That might be due...
A life well-lived
Over the last few weeks I’ve been interviewed, filmed, taped and recorded numerous times. I’ve also been going through files — or, more like,...
Love lessons
It’s easy to get discouraged in our current political climate. When the news is dominated by travel bans, bias attacks and chaos in our...
Creep of the Week: Michael Brown
Whenever someone begins a statement with, “I’m sorry, but … ” that’s usually a sign that 1. They are not sorry, and 2....
Creep of the Week: Milo Yiannopoulos (again)
Remember when Simon & Schuster was going to publish a book by Milo Yiannopoulos and people were all, “But he’s a racist/misogynist/anti-trans hate...
Exploitation, not unity
We echoed the audible gasp in the U.S. House chambers Tuesday night when President Donald Trump announced the formation of an office to investigate...
Empowering hate
Mr. President: I write to you today regarding your lifting of the federal guidance on transgender rights in schools. While I am not privy...
Creep of the Week: Peter LaBarbera
Hair is a very charged and political thing. It has been since, well, forever. For example, a colleague of mine once...
States’, students’ rights
Though nothing had been finalized as of presstime, the Trump administration this week was expected to issue guidance on the treatment of transgender...
So-called Muslim ban a danger to LGBT community
Any day now, President Donald Trump is expected to announce — with great fanfare, I’m sure, including a drum roll — his pronouncement on...
Creep of the Week: Milo Yiannopoulos
We’re all about free speech here in America. Well, kind of. So let me amend that: We like to think we’re all about free...
Community in flux
The shifts in our local LGBT community are somewhat of a microcosm of what’s happening on a national level right now. ...
Not as bad as you think
Let’s state the obvious: the LGBT community of Philadelphia seems to be in disarray. Recently there have been conflicts involving Mazzoni...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
Great news, everybody! Donald Trump is not planning to rescind President Obama’s 2014 executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT people. I...
Don’t let Toomey slide
The U.S. Senate this week confirmed Betsy DeVos as our next Secretary of Education. DeVos has been arguably the cabinet pick...
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