October is LGBTQ History Month
2021 has been an historic year for the LGBTQ community in Pennsylvania. Several municipalities around the state enacted nondiscrimination ordinances, ensuring that LGBTQ residents...
Defending public notices
Public notices are printed in newspapers and posted on newspaper websites to let you know what government agencies are planning to do. ...
There’s good news out there
We’re all going through drastic times together, and our emotions are on a cliff. This seems to be a time when we should have...
Pride was created to be inclusive
Yo! Don’t you know what Pride stands for? Well, some revisionists or people who just want attention are once again complaining. So sit down,...
LGBT pragmatism in the guv race
In the first examination of the candidates running for governor, I started out by stating that I was unaligned. And by the...
Emotional news roller-coasters
It seems that some weeks are more emotionally trying than others when it comes to covering the news in the LGBT community. ...
Reaching the places equality hasn’t
The Supreme Court will be ruling on marriage equality in the next few days. Whatever the outcome — and it would surprise...
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,...
Randy Thomasson
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and these are desperate times for antigay “marriage defenders” like Randy Thomasson of Save California, an organization dedicated...
A welcome return
This column is my first after a two-week vacation. So, this morning was my first opportunity to look over the last two...
Letters and Feedback: Aug. 15-21, 2014
Editor: Hamas is no friend of LGBT people. The group’s co-founder called us “perverts,” etc. (For that matter, the Saudi and Egyptian dictatorships, both...
LGBT Ukrainians fight for their country and their community
There is so much that this column could get into this week. Like many of you, the first thought on my mind is Ukraine....
America is failing rape victims
It was a beautiful sunny afternoon. September 4. I was in my front garden, 41 steps from my front door. I would later count...
Creep of the Week: William Donohue
Are all Catholic priests child molesters? No, of course not. Are some Catholic priests child molesters? Yes, indeed. But you know what?...
The battle for legitimacy
We’re in a time of change, and most of that is frustrating, but at times you see the glimmer of success from what this...
The Need for Pride
With the dramatically building support for LGBT issues in the past few years, some community members have questioned the necessity of Pride celebrations, promulgating...
Zaya Wade is a role model for all of us
Dwayne Wade’s daughter Zaya recently came out as transgender, though the superstar ex-NBA player said she knew her identity since she was 3-years-old.
In a...
An unholy communion
Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput has struck again. This week, the leader of the local Catholic Church issued a decree that...
Brenton Harrison Tarrant
“Let’s get this party started.” That’s how Brenton Harrison Tarrant kicked off his live-stream video of his massacre at the first of two mosques...
The Church’s child-rape problem
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