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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 […]

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Line of the Week: Business of Restaurant Week

We’ve seen scads of Restaurant Week comments over the past two weeks. One of the most illuminating may have been Cleevus who looks at Restaurant […]

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Advertising Circulars = Litter

I don’t know how it works in your neighborhood, but Spring Gardenians get an extra helping of litter on ad circular day. In the wee […]

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Philadelphia, Pro Union

Philadelphia Ghost Sign Project First was the behemoth steakhouse Union Trust, then the Philadelphia Union soccer team. Next up will be the Union Tavern bar […]