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...
Creep of the Week: One Million Moms
I’ve gone from grocery store to grocery store buying up every box of the Kellogg’s Together With Pride cereal and I have them all...
Get your Pride started
Well, it’s officially here: Pride Month. Sure, there are some places that celebrate Pride in other months (yes, Rehoboth, we’re talking about...
Creep of the Week: The Colson Center for Christian Worldview
This is a watershed moment for religious leaders in the United States. More than 75 Christian leaders have come together to do a remarkable...
Candidate contenders emerging
Listen up (or, in this case, read on). There’s some interesting backstage politics going on in Philly and Montgomery County that...
A leader for the community
Malcolm Kenyatta earned an overwhelming victory late Tuesday in the primary race to represent North Philadelphia and, by all accounts, it was because of...
An early and very personal Christmas present
There’s an old saying that when we’re young our parents watch over us, and we return the favor as adults when our parents...
Another Catholic conflict ahead of papal visit
Oh, how I hoped to not be writing another column about the World Meeting of Families in September, but actions by Philadelphia Archbishop Charles...
Katie Hill is the victim of a sexual double standard
Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) was among the wave of women and LGBT people elected to Congress in the 2018 midterms. Endorsed by former President...
Holding on HB 300
Daryl Metcalfe. His name has been a thorn in the side of LGBT advocates for years, and his stance on LGBT...
Creep of the Week: Samaritan’s Purse
Hospitals are for sick people. They are places of healing. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic tales of those on the front lines working tirelessly to...
GetEQUAL, get real! Learn!
Let’s face it: GetEQUAL, which has gotten much LGBT media attention of late, needs to mature somewhat. It shows promise, but unfortunately...
Rainbow Flag Day
During the government shutdown this fall, my partner, Traci, and I found ourselves in Philadelphia with a handful of useless tickets to the important...
Letters and Feedback
If we are to end AIDS in Philadelphia, we need accountability from those charged with leading the efforts. In Philadelphia, a bulk...
Tilting at trolls and Uncle Ruckus
“Don’t feed the trolls,” my friend Mark Thompson tells me after watching me cross words on Twitter with some right-wing genius patriots, as they...
Media: Stop enabling discrimination
On Monday, the State Department began requiring all employees to be married in order to receive family benefits and, for overseas staff, diplomatic passports...
‘Queer’: Word du jour?
There seems to be yet another controversy in our community this week. The issue du jour is over HuffPost changing its dedicated LGBT site’s...
Should Brian Sims resign?
I asked this question on my personal Facebook page, and the results were interesting. An overwhelming number of people said that Rep. Brian...
My personal confession
While you’re reading this, I’m on a plane on my way to San Francisco for the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association convention, where...
Party rhetoric
Last Saturday, conservative pundit Glenn Beck held a tea-party rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, on the anniversary of the 1963 Civil...
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