LGBTQ
Playdar: Celebrating Independence Day With Pop’s Miss Independents
Happy Independence Gay, one and all! Now, let’s light up those fireworks and launch an explosive playlist of Fourth of July anthems from some of […]
HIV/AIDS Programs Could Face More Than $1 billion in Funding Cuts
Every slice of good news seems to come with an unwanted extra slice of bad news these days, it seems. Though Boston scientists today reported having […]
N.J. Marriage Equality Pursuants to Re-File Lawsuit Following DOMA Decision
Call it counterintuitive, but Garden State Equality and six same-sex New Jersey couples are hopeful that the state’s civil unions law will be declared unconstitutional. […]
Rep. Steve McCarter Speaks Out About Pa. Marriage Equality Bill
It’s unlikely that Rep. Steve McCarter is the name that crosses your mind when you think of Pennsylvania’s recently-announced marriage equality bill. In fact, most […]
What Grindr Men Really Think: Service Surveys Users on Relationships
Grindr: It’s like Gallup, but with a polling sample of horny gay men. Anyone who uses Grindr (guilty as charged!) probably took notice of several survey pop-up […]
Playdar: 6 Dance Ditties to Help Escape the Summer Blues
Wake up — a new month is upon us! It’s time to nix those summer blues and kick off summer’s fiercest (and debatably hottest) month […]
Local Comedians Launch Gay-Themed Web Series
And you think your dates are bad? Alejandro Morales, who co-hosts East Coast Power Nap at The Trocadero Theatre and does stand-up at Fairmount’s Urban Saloon (where the […]
Monday Kickstarter: Pride Celebrations Galore Around the World
Trolling the Web for the weekend’s LGBT headlines so you don’t have to. PRIDE: WATCH: Lady Godga Gaga returns from her hiatus to perform the […]
Is Brian Sims’s Gay Marriage Bill a Publicity Stunt?
The day after the Supreme Court struck down a crucial provision of the Defense of Marriage Act, Philadelphia state Representative Brian Sims and colleague Steve […]
WATCH: Footage from This Week’s Decision Day Celebration
Philly In Focus put together this fantastic video of Thursday’s Decision Day Rally in Independence Mall to celebrate the downfall of DOMA. Check it out […]
WEEKEND ROUNDUP: The Unofficial SCOTUS-Ruling Dance Party
FRIDAY HIGHLIGHT: Nobody told me I could do this, but what the hell: I’m dubbing tonight’s NSFW the unofficial dance party for this week’s history-making SCOTUS […]
The Single Dumbest Reaction to the New Yorker’s Gay Ernie and Bert Cover
Here’s this week’s New Yorker cover, which for obvious reasons is generating a fair amount of internet buzz right now. There you have it: Ernie […]
GIRL TALK: Shooting the Breeze with Gay Rapper Cazwell
Those crystal-clear blue eyes. That swagger. The impossibly catchy videos that make you want to dance (and maybe touch yourself) for days. How could you […]
GOP Representative Silences Brian Sims for Defying “God’s Law”
After the Supreme Court ruled DOMA unconstitutional Wednesday, gay representative Brian Sims (D, Philly) sought to make comments on the House floor in the State […]
BREAKING: Brian Sims to Introduce Pennsylvania Marriage Equality Bill in House
Wow. A mere 24 hours after yesterday’s landmark SCOTUS decision, state representatives Brian Sims and Steve McCarter announce they’re keeping the ball rolling by introducing […]