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My Secret Pool Boy Shame (Not Really)

There is an underground club for breeders at 12th Street Gym. And I cruise it every Saturday. Before we head over, we don Euro-style swim […]

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Girl-on-Girl Cheating OK, Guys Say

When the University of Texas in Austin asked more than 700 college students about infidelity, half of the men admitted they would forgive their girlfriends […]

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Help Make Schools Safer for LGBT Students

Nine out of 10 LGBT students experienced harassment at school in the past year. These students are more likely to feel unsafe and are less […]

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Illinois Legalizes Civil Unions

This week, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation granting givil unions to same-sex couples in his home state. While Illinois doesn’t define the move as […]

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Shouldering the Blame

If you’ve been following the Sixers this season—and you should be, considering Doug Collins’s neckwear—you may have noticed something. The team has eight members age […]

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You Live in the Moonshine Capital of the World

My mother, God bless her, has a hookup. For Christmas, she gave me a Mason jar of real, legitimate, 100 percent illegal, North Carolina-made peach […]

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Independence Business Alliance Says It Gets Better

The Independence Business Alliance, greater Philadelphia’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce, recently released a video for the “It Gets Better” project in which local LGBT business […]

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Can John Thune Run Against Obama?

John Thune. It’s a name you should know, at least for this week, because he may be our next president, or maybe not. But he […]

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Door Policies at Local Gay Bars

On a typical Saturday night at Woody’s – one of Philly’s most popular gay nightclubs – men are crowded around the front bar with a […]

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College Freshmen Are Just Whining

Don’t college freshmen seem like they have it all? Pseudo-independence financially and otherwise with the cushion of Mom and Dad’s checkbook back home, relatively easy […]

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GLAAD is Mad at SNL

Saturday Night Live is in hot water with GLAAD over a skit depicting pre-op male-to-female transsexuals. The gay entertainment watchdog group says the skit – […]

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Real Toughness

The big topic of conversation throughout the NFL this past week was toughness. Jay Cutler didn’t have any, and his peers were more than happy […]

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Chick-fil-A Backs Straight-Only Retreat – Again

After a branch of Chick-fil-A donated lunch to an anti-gay marriage retreat in Central Pennsylvania sponsored by the Pennsylvania Family Institute earlier this month (read […]

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Breakfast Is Toast

Every morning, my husband Doug gets up early enough to make himself breakfast. Not just coffee and toast, but a real old-fashioned breakfast—a bowl of […]

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Iron Chef a Hometown Affair Tonight

Food Network 10pm this evening Michael Solomonov faces Jose Garces on Iron Chef America. Solomonov is hosting a viewing party at Percy Street Barbecue. [poll […]