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I chatted with my friend Councilman Bill Peduto about the election outcome and congratulating him. The Burghosphere has been bursting with analysis of the Peduto impact — the Pedutocrats. Here's what Bill had to say about it all (I refer to him as Bill on account of us being friends n'at.): “Thanks, Sue – but it wasn't […]
With Bruce Kraus' victory in the Democratic primary, today is an historic moment for Pittsburgh and all of Western Pennsylvania. Kraus is the first openly gay person to be headed for the hallowed halls of the City Council of Pittsburgh. In fact, he is the first openly gay elected official in Western Pennsylvania. Well, he will […]
One of the most bitter foes of the American gay community has died and I only feel sadness for him and his family. I'm sad because his legacy is permanently scarred by his unrelenting hatred and intolerance for people who are gay, feminist, foreign born, of color and otherwise different from his vision of a godly […]
NOTE: The first edition of this post switched the district races around. I apologize for the ridiculous mistake and can only claim that the lack of coffee made me do it. It goes to show that people ARE paying attention. ***************************************************************** None received the ACDC endorsement so I didn't get to sing their praises in […]
Saturday night, Ledcat and I sat down to talk with Lance Friedman, co-chair of the Steel City Stonewall Democrats which is the local chapter of the national gay democratic network. Friedman has been co-leading the group since January 2007 after the unexpected departure of Steel-City's controversial co-chair Scott Safier. Since then Friedman and co-chair Tara Reynolds have […]
From Young Philly Politics CALL OUT FOR SUPPORT TO DEMAND JUSTICE FOR ERICA KEEL THIS FRIDAY, MAY 11TH, 4pm, at 12O1 LOCUST STOPEN PLANNING MEETING On March 22nd of this year, Erica Keel, a 20-yr-old African American trans woman, was fatally run over at Broad and Thompson streets in North Philadelphia. According to witness accounts, […]
This made me laugh. And cry. Our favorite Pennsylvania-flavored fundie, Diane Gramley of the American Family Association of Pennsylvania, has issued a call for all good Christian families to boycott the City of Brotherly Love for being too gay friendly. It seems that Philly has ratcheted up the drive to attract gay tourist dollars by unveiling several […]
Just some random Saturday morning LGBTQ stuff … Pam's House Blend contributor Ken from Mississippi has a nice little piece on the activism of coming out. As I've said many times here at the little coffeehouse, the most radical, powerful bit of activism that we can do as LGBT citizens is to come out of […]
You aren't that surprised are you? The Trib's editorial board clicked their heels and jumped into line with the right wingnuts clamoring about the House of Representative's extension of federal hate crime protections to the LGBT community. It passed 237 to 180 while a companion bill works its way through the Senate. W, of course, […]
