Creep of the Week: Jeff Sessions
When the country’s chief law-enforcement officer meets with a group that toils daily to hurt LGBT people, that’s deeply troubling. But when he goes...
Justice for Diamond
Common Pleas Court Judge Diana L. Anhalt gave Charles Sargent some harsh but absolutely necessary words this week. “Your crime was...
Tim Dunkin
Conservative commentator Tim Dunkin is raging mad that “sodomites” are allowed to adopt children, and he’s not going to take it any more! ...
Top of my profession with Ben Franklin
When you set out to change the world, you never expect to actually see the results of those years of struggle, or to win...
Creep of the Week: Jesse Lee Peterson
When racist white people who lurk on World Net Daily claim they have black friends, they’re probably referring to Jesse Lee Peterson, a black...
Vote Hard and Vote Democrat
This is my last column before the election. To say this is the most important election of your life does not do it justice....
My road to Stonewall
I’ve already started what I’m calling my “Stonewall 50 Tour,” which includes more than 20 speaking gigs, interviews, exhibit openings, parades and conferences. It...
The world moves on
While this country has been paralyzed by both the pandemic and the political circus we call the 2020 election (led by the lead clown...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
This impeachment stuff is stressing me out. Donald Trump keeps screaming that this whole thing is very bad for the country. And he is...
A not-so-national march
Heads up, LGBT America. Did you know that there is about to be a national Equality March for Unity and Pride in Washington, D.C.,...
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...
The Republican SCOTUS gift
OK liberals, the Republicans, in their “wisdom,” have said they won’t consider President Obama’s nominee to replace Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court....
Gay homophobes
Oh, those silly Republicans. Why are they so often the ones who are homophobic closet cases? The latest one joining the ranks...
A response to David Fair’s open letter
Conversational space when it comes to issues of racial bias always seems to be co-opted by white cis-gender activists using a momentous issue to...
Creep of the Week: Mitch McConnell
The Senate Confirmation Hearing for Amy Coney Barrett was happening today and I watched exactly zero minutes of it because I was practicing self...
The Return to Normalcy
The media mantra is relentless: It’s time to get back to “normal.” The surge in COVID cases wrought by the super-transmissible Omicron variant, which...
Power of giving
Tuesday marked two important occasions for our community, and their confluence was significant. The first of December always serves to commemorate...
Picking ourselves back up
It’s been quite a week for America. People dealt with the fallout of the shocking presidential election in myriad ways. Maybe...
Creep of the Week: Shane Vaughn
There are two things I need to say right up front. One, getting a COVID-19 vaccine is a safe and effective way to prevent...
Calling out discrimination
Calling out discrimination In the Aug. 6 issue of the Jewish Exponent, the newspaper of the Jewish community, a very...






















