Iowa: What it means
Finally, the Iowa caucuses have come and gone and with them come the pundits and candidates with their spin. But what about the LGBT...
Taking care of our seniors
We call it the “Pie in the Sky” project. For many of us, it’s the most ambitious project we’ve ever undertaken. To...
Taking stock of our community
Gay Pride Month, every June, seems to be a good time to take stock of where we are as a community. After...
An anniversary invite
This month, Philadelphia Gay News is beginning a yearlong celebration of a major milestone: 40 years in publication. The first...
Picking a date, strategy for CA marriage
Equality California, which ran the campaign to kill Proposition 8 (that’s our side, folks) last year and lost, is considering when they’ll push for...
Emerging complexities in Clementi case
Last week, lawyers for the roommate of a gay Rutgers student who committed suicide in September filed briefs asking for the case against him...
Creep of the Week: Cardinal Timothy Dolan
What’s more powerful, Hollywood and Washington, D. C., or God? If you don’t believe in God, that’s easy: Hollywood and D.C.,...
An end-of-summer roundup of legislation
It’s the last week of summer and, at this time, this column usually takes a look at some issues with a slight twist. ...
Racism
Oh, hey guys. I was just surfing the Interwebs looking for antigay idiots I can write snarky comments about. But then I read that...
Justice undone
Last week, the father of a Marine who died in combat was ordered to pay $16,510. 80 to Fred Phelps, leader of the...
The fuller trans experience
While the “broke the Internet” cliché grinds our gears — especially when evoked in response to a Kim Kardashian photo shoot — we couldn’t...
Moving the needle
CORRECTION: In the July 20-26 edition of my weekly column, the statement “Catholic Social Services … refused to consider a gay couple for fostering,...
Creep of the Week: Matt Bevin
Kentucky sure knows how to pick ’em, don’t they? Gov. Matt Bevin (Tea Partier and Kim Davis’ BFF) was sworn in on Dec. 9,...
How a penniless LGBT activist danced at the White House
These last few years have been incredible for us as a community, and for me personally. My just-released memoir, “And Then I Danced: Traveling...
LGBT victorious in primary vote
The maturation and empowerment of Philadelphia’s LGBT community was in full view after Tuesday’s primary election. And this community pulled in some...
Catholic advocacy from the inside
There’s a new organization that I’d personally like to give two thumbs up. It’s called Catholics for Equality. Anyone who reads this...
Talk is not cheap
Ah, summertime — the living is easy. We toss our cares to the wind, head for a little R&R and, for many, that great...
The state of the Gayborhood
As debate rages at the national level between supporters of the two major-party presidential candidates, Philadelphia’s LGBT community is seeing its own level of...
Creep of the Week: Council Nedd II
It is Martin Luther King Jr. Day as I write this, which means that people on the Interwebs are debating about whether...
Creep of the Week: John Boehner
The Defense of Marriage Act makes John Boehner weep. Not because of how sadistically cruel it is to gays and lesbians, nor...
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