Congress talks fed partner benefits
Last week, a bill to extend benefits and obligations to domestic partners of federal employees was introduced by U. S. Reps. Tammy Baldwin...
LGBT community: Looking beyond 2008
I took a few moments to look over 2008 from a transgender and LGBT perspective. It struck me how contentious the...
LGBTs deserve Republican attention
Nation, take a look at what is happening with the U.S. Senate race here in Pennsylvania. It is a microcosm of what is happening...
Black Lives Matter and the LGBT community
In June, I had the pleasure of addressing the staff of the Democratic National Convention during a Gay Pride luncheon. As all speaking gigs...
Mychal Massie
The news is a shit show. Trump is doing his best to prove that most white people in this country won’t recognize racism unless...
A night of unity and celebration
When the virus took Gay Pride from us this year, I was sad. When it took our October block party Outfest away, it saddened...
Your Trump-supporting relatives should get no free passes
While many of us LGBTQ people have our chosen families who share our political and personal views, a lot of us also have biological...
An anniversary invite
This month, Philadelphia Gay News is beginning a yearlong celebration of a major milestone: 40 years in publication. The first...
Jeffrey Sutton and Deborah Cook
I was driving home after picking up my son from school when I heard the news that the Sixth Circuit Court had upheld the...
Putting panic defenses in the past
California is yet again leading the way on state-level LGBT-rights legislation. Just as it became the first in the nation to...
Tyranny of the minority
We in Philadelphia live in a relatively progressive bubble compared with what’s happening in the vast majority of the country, where LGBTQ Americans are...
Letter to the Editor
Editor: I am writing in response to the recent introduction of HB 879 by Rep. Mike O’Brien. Over the last...
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: Jase Bolger
In Michigan, where I live, it is perfectly legal to fire someone for being gay. Or for being lesbian, bisexual or transgender, for that...
The suicide epidemic
Suicide in the United States is on the rise — in some states, exponentially. Nationwide, suicide rates have risen by 25 percent from 1999...
Creep of the Week: Tom Casperson
Recently a friend of a friend posted a link on Facebook to an article in The Advocate about a woman being kicked out of...
Shame on the FOP
Throngs of high-powered Republicans have come out against Donald Trump’s presidential bid, including both President Bushes. Trump has become aligned with the most divisive,...
Creep of the week: Ben Carson (again!)
Whether you call them “special rights” or “extra rights,” it has long been the argument of the anti-gayers that what LGBT people want goes...
Mob mentality
Let me ask you, readers, if you feel I’m going a little far when I suggest that I’m frightened that some people running for...
A clear-cut case
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