Lazy Labor Day column
This is the week that most columnists dread, since most of you are on vacation squeezing out the last bit of summer. So we...
Pride will unite us or divide us
There are people like Harvey Milk, Matthew Shepard and Barbara Gittings that give meaning to our fight for equality. And there is no truer...
Use your words, Mr. President, but correctly
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Of Iran, gay Pride and Rick Santorum
June will soon be upon us and when many of us think of June, we think of gay Pride. Most places...
LGBT politics 101
Unfortunately, many so-called political leaders and journalists in our community seem to not understand the political system, but insist on commenting on it anyway....
Tackling transitions
The last few weeks have shown that the local LGBT community is one in transition, in more ways than one. ...
Remembering the trans community
Every year, the Transgender Day of Remembrance is held on Nov. 20. This year, the day will have special significance locally, as...
Making history in Philly
The donkeys are in position, the flags are unfurled and the streets have been beautified. Philly is ready for the Democratic National Convention. ...
Want to hear a presidential campaign secret?
Well, it’s been a year so guess I can tell this strange story. I’ll leave some names out for obvious reasons. During the presidential...
The COVID vaccine is safe and important for LGBTQ people
There’s a troubling new COVID-19 analysis, released by the Human Rights Campaign, that revealed only 42% of LGBTQ adults said they were “very likely”...
Fundraising, community and recovery
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So why is this a gay issue? Many studies of breast cancer have shown that...
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. ...
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch
That blue wave that every political pundit and journalist keeps telling us is almost a sure thing in November? For those of you not...
ENDA’s exemption
Luckily for me, I get to write about a fun person in this column: my friend Matt Foreman, the former executive director of the...
Franklin Graham
Hello and welcome to a world where a gay man with the word “butt” in his last name is running for president and it...
Gift giving that matters
In the earliest days of what would eventually become my transition, within weeks of my first coming out to the person who would become...
One day after
On Nov. 20, transgender and nonbinary people — and our allies — across the world come together to honor those murdered due to anti-trans...
SCOTUS: Why should I marry?
You’ll read a lot of marriage-equality articles and news items in the next few weeks thanks to the pending ruling on the subject by...
To publish or not to publish
The Pennsylvania News Media Association is an organization of most of the professional daily and weekly newspapers in the commonwealth. It is also one...
Community Response
Every now and then I ask my Facebook friends what I should write about in my weekly column. This week, I was overwhelmed with...
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