State Rep Pushes to Modify Tax Code, Eliminate Discriminatory Inheritance Tax

State Rep Pushes to Modify Tax Code, Eliminate Discriminatory Inheritance Tax

State Representative Babette Josephs wants to eliminate a 15% inheritance tax for domestic partners, LGBTQ and straight, and is urging her colleagues to take action on legislation she introduced in 2011.  Erie Gay News has the story. Josephs’ legislation (H.B. 1828) would define a domestic partnership as a relationship not defined by marriage or a […]

Western PA Bloggers Team Up To Promote LGBT Equality

My colleague Tom Waters drafted this explanation of a joint initiative we are launching … Two prominent western PA bloggers are joining forces to host a first ever LGBTQA bloggers and social media summit. Sue Kerr, primary blogger at Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents and Thomas C Waters of thomascwaters.com are planning a get together that they hope will be informative, interesting […]

Why is OFA PA Making It So Hard

Why is OFA PA Making It So Hard

OMG. Of course, we want to support the first sitting President to endorse marriage equality. I even made a campaign donation to put my money where my mouth was on that one. But the Obama for America Team PA folks are not making it easy. There’s no clear line of communication. Last week, I was […]

Love For Our Fathers

Love For Our Fathers

Last night, I took Ledcat to see Glen Campbell perform at the Byham. It was pure nostalgia – we both remember Campbell’s “easy listening” during our childhood and we knew this was his farewell tour. Campbell is in the early stages of dementia. It was possibly one of the loveliest experience of my life. Three […]

NAACP Board of Directors Votes to Support Marriage Equality

NAACP Board of Directors Votes to Support Marriage Equality

Today, the Board of the NAACP issued the following statement after voting to support marriage equality. The NAACP Constitution affirmatively states our objective to ensure the “political, educational, social and economic equality” of all people. Therefore, the NAACP has opposed and will continue to oppose any national, state, local policy or legislative initiative that seeks […]

Support the GLCC on Twitter

Support the GLCC on Twitter

Here’s a quick Friday request … show some Pittsburgh LGBTQ love to our very own Gay & Lesbian Community Center. They just joined Twitter @GLCCpgh  As of right now, they have 129 followers. Let’s get that up to 150 today! We can do it. The GLCC is the heart and soul of Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ community. […]

Happy Birthday To My Ledcat!

Friday May 18 is the 49th birthday of my dear Ledcat. Birthday revelry so far includes a blueberry muffin for breakfast and a Kong. (I donated a Kong to Animal Friends instead of buying her a birthday card. She loved it.)  The other end of the day might include Mexican food. In between work for […]

Why IDAHO Matters …

Today, May 17, is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO). A number of politicians, media personalities and high-profile figures have also joined the chorus of supporters acknowledging the significance of the day, which aims to “celebrate human diversity and rededicate ourselves to a basic but essential truth—that human rights are universal and must […]

RIP Donna Summer

RIP Donna Summer

As soon as I hear her name or the first chords of the song “She Works Hard For The Money,” I am transported to a dinky sub basement room in the West Mifflin Area High School gym where the “girls” learned coordinated quasi-aerobic routines while the boys did something completely different. I was in 10th […]

Bob Evans Responds

Bob Evans Responds

Remember that time I went to Bob Evans and discovered that they categorized this blog as pornography? Well, at least they got back to me in a timely manner. I wonder if company even cares that there prepacked software filters may not be fine tuned enough to actually support their corporate mission and values? Or […]