March 24, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News America was still reeling from the mass femicide in Atlanta last week that killed seven women, six of them Asian, when the Boulder shooting happened on March 22. The Biden White House had no sooner raised the flag again after a week of lowering it in honor of the Atlanta victims than it was lowered again for the ten people murdered in the Boulder killing spree. But in the week that saw two mass shootings that left 18 dead, there were even

March 17, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News On March 16, Richard Aaron Long, 21, went to three spa/massage parlors near Atlanta and shot seven women and two men. Six of the seven women were Asian and one was white. The dead man was white, the wounded man, Latinx. Long was taken into custody “without incident” after a 150 mile chase by police. Politicians were quick to respond to the latest and most deadly attack yet on Asian/AAPI Americans. “Our entire family is praying for the vic

March 10, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News Women’s History Month often seems like Erasure of Lesbians Month. Many critically important women in American history past and present were lesbians: Susan B. Anthony, Jane Addams, Dr. Alice Hamilton, Dr. Emily Blackwell, Dr. Sara Josephine Baker, Rachel Carson, Dr. Sally Ride, Barbara Jordan, Pauli Murray, Dr. Ruth Gates, Patrisse Cullors and so many others. Yet the lesbian or bisexual part is often erased from their notable biographies,

March 3, 2021 Bay Area Reporter Another Women's History Month is winding down with lesbian, bisexual, queer and trans women largely left in the shadows, where they have spent most of history. Here are some new books from established and new writers that center LBTQ women and offer reminders that such stories have rarely and barely been told—and representation matters. The Selected Works of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde, edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay Norton; 384pp

March 3, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News As Senate Democrats struggle with Republicans to pass President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief package, a secondary battle is taking place over raising the minimum wage. Progressives within the party, led in the Senate by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) are adamant that it must be raised, while the Senate’s two most centrist Democrats, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), are stridently op