Creep of the Week: Terry Jones
Hey, are you pissed that President Obama has been all nice-nice with the gays lately? Then you should totally set him on fire. ...
Time to start looking back
Philadelphia becoming the nation’s most LGBT-friendly city . .. construction on the LGBT-friendly affordable senior apartment building ahead of schedule ... the LGBT...
Is the Constitution passé?
Despite my radical spirit, my committed feminism and deep distrust of old establishments, after I went to law school I became a fawning, dorky...
Maximizing on the Bowl
This weekend, the greatest confluence of the professional sports world and American commercialism — the Super Bowl — will return, presenting myriad opportunities for...
Creep of the Week: Peter Sprigg
As I write this, gays and lesbians are celebrating the fact that President Obama called for equal rights for everyone, not just straight people,...
Out with the upper crust
Even I’m amazed at times at how far the LGBT community in Philadelphia has come, to lead the nation in showing how we can...
Inaugurating a new era
President Obama has been at the forefront of a number of historic LGBT milestones in the past few years: when his administration vowed to...
Creep of the Week: The Boy Scouts of America
Look, I’m no Boy Scout and I never have been. Like, literally. I’m not a boy, for one. I’m also an “avowed...
Philly Mag got me as well
I don’t remember the last time I’ve received such an overwhelming response to a column as I did for last week’s “Philly Mag tries...
Fostering a coming-out
Jodie Foster finally put to rest the rumors that have pursued for her decades — yes, she is single. Or at...
Creep of the Week: James Dobson
To say that the horrific murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. , last month stunned the nation is an understatement....
Philly Mag tries to do LGBT
I have heard it suggested by some that Philadelphia Magazine is racist and sexist but I never believed that — but now I’m actually...
Thanks from the Person of the Year
How do I begin to tell you or the LGBTQ community how honored and proud I am to have been named “Person of the...
A Congressional fail for violence victims
While news reports in the past few weeks counted down the hours until the country plunged over the fiscal cliff, there was another less...
Creep of the Week: John Boehner
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but national approval of Congress is down. Like, way down. You know what’s more popular than...
LGBT leaders do not want your parents
For most of you, the reactions you got when you came out to your parents and the statements they subsequently made would — if...
Hoping for a happy New Year
Last year gave LGBTs a lot to be thankful for — the re-election of President Obama, marriage equality in a number of new states,...
Creep of the Week: Pope Benedict XVI
There are a lot of things that threaten world peace: The ready availability of assault rifles. The Military Industrial Complex. Terrorism. Chemical...
My non-LGBT column
Guns. We believe in the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms — but, like the First Amendment, the right of free...
PGN’s New Year’s resolutions
Angela: I hope to live life to the fullest and continue to stay true to myself. “Don’t let your character change color...
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