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Playdar: Get to Know Capital Cities

There is nothing I love more than spring: The birds chirping, sun shining — even the blooming dogwood trees that smell like the basement in […]

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Homophobic Slur Greets Jazz Festival Announcement

Our colleagues at G Philly have the news: The term “inappropriate” has been bandied around the Martha Graham Cracker  camp quite a bit this year. […]

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Center City Jazz Festival Receives Homophobic Email After Inviting Martha Graham Cracker to Perform [UPDATED]

The term “inappropriate” has been bandied around the Martha Graham Cracker (pictured) camp quite a bit this year. In February, officials at an after-school program […]

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Will Delaware Legalize Gay Marriage?

Packed house #marriageequality #delaware #samesexmarriage twitter.com/jarredhill/sta… — Jarred Hill (@jarredhill) May 7, 2013 Delaware could legalize gay marriage … this afternoon. The state senate (as […]

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Study: Gay Men Are Scratching Fewer Notches On Their Bedposts

If you’re finding that hookups are harder to come by these days, don’t take it personally. A new study from the National Surveys of Family […]

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Hunty Games: The Winners of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 5 Are …

  And the winners of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 5 are …

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5 All-Time Best RuPaul’s Drag Race Lip-Sync Battles

It’s no secret that we here at G Philly have been enjoying the hell out of this season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, so it’s with […]

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Mariela Castro and Barney Frank Accept Awards at the International Equality Dinner

LGBTers and allies donned their snazziest duds for Saturday night’s high-profile Equality Forum International Dinner at the National Museum for American Jewish History (NMAJH) in Old […]

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Equality Forum Highlights: Our Favorite Panel

(L-R) National Black Justice Coalition’s Sharon Lettman-Hicks, Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff and the Equality Forum’s own Malcolm Lazin spoke on the  National Politics Panel. […]

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Monday Kickstarter: E! News Tweets that Justin Bieber is Gay

I trolled the web for LGBTQ headlines all weekend so you wouldn’t have to.

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Myths About Homophobia and the Black Community

One of the things I hate most about the Internet is the comments section under any posts that address some marker of identity, be it […]

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Green Eggs Cafe Shuts Down After Being Swarmed By Giant Rats [Now With Video]

The powers of crowd-sourced journalism struck again last night when passersby on 13th Street peered into Green Eggs Cafe Midtown and witnessed a group of […]

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Liza Minnelli’s NOH8 Portrait

Today, the NOH8 Campaign released legendary gay icon Liza Minnelli’s NOH8 portrait, part of the organizations silent protest against the passage of California’s Proposition 8. […]

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First FriGAY: The Male Stripper Exhibit at Bridgette Mayer Gallery

On the first Friday of every month, I roundup up gay centric art openings. If you have LGBTQ-art tips for future First FriGAY posts, email […]

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Boy Scouts Leaving Philly As Bitter Feud With City Has Ended

For about five years now, the city’s been telling the Boy Scouts it couldn’t keep staying rent-free in public property if it didn’t adhere to […]