Mummer’s Maddening Mess
Well, the Mummers were successful in drawing international attention to their New Year’s Day march on Broad Street on this year. However, it wasn’t the attention they were hoping for, especially with...
View ArticleSingle Payer Healthcare
There was a time when I was opposed to the concept of single payer healthcare, or Medicare for All, as I saw it as a blow to capitalism and the slow embrace of socialism. It’s what Canada and England...
View ArticleFIFA Good, NFL Not So
If you have been following the sports section in QUEERtimes’ global news section, you will know that the Fédération Internationale de Football, the international governing body for soccer, has fined...
View ArticleInternational Marriage Equality
Marriage equality is not just an issue in the United States of America, it is in fact an international movement with advances in countries around the globe. This week I would like to focus on just two,...
View ArticleSection 377
India is the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Its culture is rooted in thousands and thousands of years in history. However,...
View ArticleAnd the Jackasses Have It!
Did you hear the one about the Priest, a Rabbi, and an Imam all in a boat? Don’t worry it’s dumb. Just as dumb as the Republican politicians in Michigan. Last week the Republican controlled Michigan...
View ArticleBrian Sims is Out
On Tuesday, State Representative Brian Sims (D-182), who in 2012 became the first openly LGBTQ person elected to the Pennsylvania Legislature, ended his race for Congress. He was running in...
View ArticlePrivate & Public Worlds of African American LGBTQ Social Life
African American LGBTQ life in Philadelphia has always revolved around a strong and vibrant network of house parties and informal social groups, away from the racism that could permeate Gayborhood...
View ArticleGeorgia On My Mind
I have a long history with the state of Georgia as my mother was born and raised there and I spent time there as a child on summer visits. Today, my close relatives still live there, so it is with...
View ArticleNo Reduced Sentence
Social media lit up this week when Common Pleas Court Judge Roxanne Covington agreed to hear a motion, filed on behalf of gay-basher Kathryn Knott, to reconsider Knott’s five-to-10-month jail sentence....
View ArticleThank You McDonald’s
McDonald’s goes bold in Taiwan in its support of LGBTQ peoples with a 90-second commercial featuring a young man coming out of the closet to his father in the fast food chain that has gone viral and...
View ArticleIn The Balance
Since the unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia a month ago, there has been a lot of bellicose boisterous bloviating bellyaching from the political right in this country. With their sainted...
View ArticleNorth Carolina’s Loss
Esse quam videri, “to be, rather than to seem,” a very fitting motto for North Carolina after the leaders of that state exposed themselves for the anti-LGBTQ bigots they are. “To be,” seen by the rest...
View ArticleTrending This Week
Cisgender Shaming On Wednesday I had the privilege of joining with other community members to discuss issues about our community with Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams, along with his...
View ArticleRethinking HRC
I have had a love hate relationship with the Human Rights Campaign since the ‘90s when I discovered that the HRC takes 100% of the money raised at their annual Philadelphia dinner and uses it its...
View ArticleGay Gene?
We LGBTQ people have been around throughout all of human history and across all cultures, so have you ever wondered how so many LGBTQ people continue to exist with such prevalence in the population...
View ArticleRethinking our Global Relationships
Were you aware that every 29 hours a transwoman is killed somewhere around the globe even though they make up less than 1% of the world’s population? Lesbians, gays, and bisexuals are also being killed...
View ArticleRight On Target
Last week, on April 19, Target corporation issued a major statement supporting transgender equality that raised cheers in the LGBTQ community and jeers from the religious right. While acknowledging the...
View ArticlePotentially Inappropriate
One of my pleasures is reading LGBTQ centric news from around the world. This week I ran across an article about World Press Freedom Day, held on May 2, and Google’s dealing with Kenyan authorities...
View ArticleConfronted
I’m struggling with how to write this week’s column. I’ve written about homeless youth before, how 40% of all homeless youth identify as LGBTQ . . . 200,000 queer youth on the streets . . . and the...
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