Op Ed – U.S. Senator Bob Casey
June 28th marked the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. The riots, which ensued after New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, were...
Hot July politics
It’s a hot summer here on the East Coast, and usually a newspaper columnist expects that would be a period where people are tuning...
Dissecting the day’s news
It often fascinates me how we look at events and issues. Here are some of my favorites. Terrorism. The Bush administration...
Pa.’s horrible anti-transgender sports bill is horrible in dozens of other states, too
by John L. Micek
An eternity ago — or was it just last week? — a quintet of Republican lawmakers in the state House trotted...
Creep of the week: Ken Paxton
LGBT people have heard the phrase, “Come out, come out, wherever you are” over and over again for decades now. The idea, of course,...
Josh Duggar
By now you’ve probably heard about the scandalous revelation that Josh Duggar, the oldest child of the Duggar clan, has admitted to molesting five...
Trans-parency
The Pennsylvania primary is finally behind us. Whether your candidates won or lost, we can likely all agree that we can use a respite...
Cardinal Raymond Burke
Well, child sex abuse in the Catholic Church is in the news again and, gosh, wouldn’t you know it? The Catholic Church is trying...
Are we losing hope, faith in Obama?
There have never been higher hopes for our community as a president took the oath of office as in January. We were...
Creep of the Week: Trump Administration
Public Service Announcement: Wash your hands – more than you already do. And get yourself a bottle of rubbing alcohol and some cotton balls and...
Creep of the Week: Antonin Scalia
A famous Italian-Catholic has had a big change of heart regarding marriage equality after publicly saying some pretty nasty things about gays. ...
LGBT history: It’s not what you’ve been told
Very simply, there are many LGBT people out there trying to revise LGBT history. Most have either a financial stake or...
Sen. Casey and repealing DOMA
Let’s talk about all those petitions that the LGBT community delivered to Sen. Bob Casey. If you haven’t followed the story in...
Equality still needs fighting for
The claim that racism and bigotry are dead in America has lost all credibility in the wake of a suburban Philadelphia swim-club incident that...
Stopping the post-debate debacle
I love out conservative writer and TV talking head Andrew Sullivan, but his blog on the Daily Beast Tuesday regarding President Obama’s debate performance...
National Night Out highlights Philly gun violence
It’s been another week of mass shootings in America. The killings in El Paso and Dayton have left 32 dead and 57 wounded, many...
The difference between Log Cabin Republicans and the LGBTQ community
A few weeks ago in this editorial, we addressed the danger that Log Cabin Republicans pose to the LGBTQ community by endorsing and promoting...
Creep of the week – Kevin Swanson
I just finished watching the music video for Taylor Swift’s “You Need To Calm Down.” It’s cute. It’s catchy. And all of Big Gay...
Fighting the good fight
Last Saturday, President Obama addressed 3,000 LGBT individuals and allies at a fundraiser for the Human Rights Campaign. Timed to coincide with...
Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and John Roberts
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