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. ...
Creep of the Week: Star Parker
The Values Voter Summit that took place Oct. 11-13 was an all-you-can-derp buffet of right-wing lunacy. Needless to say, many VVS speakers...
On the OutFest fiasco
There’s a national message in something that happened in Philadelphia about a week ago at a festival known as OutFest. The festival,...
The rainbow of OutFest
With tens of thousands of people teeming through Philadelphia’s Gayborhood last Sunday for the annual OutFest celebration, it’s likely no two festivalgoers had the...
Creep of the Week—Mat Staver
Poet Langston Hughes. Russian composer Peter Tchaikovsky. Civil-rights activist Bayard Rustin. Mathematician and “Father of Computer Science” Alan Turing. Writer and journalist...
A little LGBT theater history
Let’s talk show biz, and in honor of LGBT History Month, I’ll tell a little secret. You might have guessed over the...
Sibling rivalry
Republican Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett dug himself deeper into the trenches of bigotry last week. In an interview with Harrisburg’s CBS...
Creep of the Week: Linda Harvey
Hey, did you hear that former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro recently became a grandpa? That’s nice for him. The end. ...
Puppy love
With all the politics in the air, I think it’s time to change the subject and bring some warmth back to a civil society....
LGBT immigrants stand up for dignity and respect
On Oct. 5, I was one of the thousands of voices in a national chorus. Across 80 cities, we mobilized for the...
Playing catch-up
The LGBT-rights movement in our nation has been heading forward at an almost unstoppable speed in recent years. The progress in Pennsylvania,...
Creep of the Week: Vladimir Putin
Want to be horrified? Do a Google image search for “antigay attacks in Russia. ” Scroll through the photos of gays, lesbians and...
History in the making
This is LGBT History Month, and its very name signifies a story worth telling, as this community is still finding itself and still forming....
An Open letter to Mayor Nutter
Editor’s note: Mayor Michael Nutter recently declined to sever Philadelphia’s ties with Sister City Nizhny Novgorod, Russia’s fifth-largest city, which last year adopted a...
Year in Review
This past week marked this editor’s one-year anniversary at the helm of Philadelphia Gay News. And to say the last 12 months...
Creep of the Week: Tony Perkins
If Tony Perkins knew you were coming, he’d have baked a cake. That is, so long as you aren’t gay and the...
No guv endorsement yet
It’s Tuesday and I have just returned from giving a tour of the future John C. Anderson Apartments, the LGBT-friendly senior-living facility. ...
More than gay
I often joke that I’m a professional gay. I have this-here LGBT column, I’ve written a book on communicating about LGBT issues...
Letters and Feedback
To the Editor: We can’t miss this opportunity. For more than 30 years, federal legislation to end legal discrimination against...
Reality of compromise
Republican Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett took a seeming step toward Medicaid expansion that advocates for the un- and underinsured have long been...
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