January - 2022

Analysis: Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate Race

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jan 26, 2022
6 min

Analysis: Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate Race

January 26, 2022 Philadelphia Gay News The Pennsylvania Senate race is one of the most critical in the country. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell thinks so. And so do the 10 Democrats and 12 Republicans who have filed to run for the seat currently held by Republican Pat Toomey who is not seeking re-election. TV and radio ads from two millionaire Republicans are a litmus of early visibility, suggesting to voters that only two candidates — Republicans Dr. Mehmet Oz and Da

International News: German Church Officials; Guatemalan Legislation; Netflix’s First Arabic Original

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jan 26, 2022
5 min

International News: German Church Officials; Guatemalan Legislation; Netflix’s First Arabic Original

January 26, 2022 Philadelphia Gay News Cologne Cathedral. German church officials comes out as LGBTQ More than 100 Catholic Church officials in Germany came out as LGBT, queer or non-binary on January 24, calling for change within the nation’s Catholic church. Their demands included a liberalization of attitudes toward homosexuality as well as reforms in the church’s treatment of LGBT+ people. The 125 member group includes priests as well as lay persons. The group published

Skating into History: The Lavender Tube on Sports, SVU and M&Ms

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jan 25, 2022
6 min

Skating into History: The Lavender Tube on Sports, SVU and M&Ms

January 25, 2022 Bay Area Reporter Figure skating pair Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc (Source: NBC Sports) Timothy LeDuc is set to become the first openly non-binary athlete to compete at a Winter Olympics. U.S. Figure Skating announced Jan. 22, that 31-year-old LeDuc has been paired with Ashley Cain-Gribble to compete in Beijing. "My hope is that when people see my story, it isn't focused on me and saying, 'Oh, Timothy is the first out non-binary person to achieve t

What Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Taught Me About Activism

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jan 19, 2022
4 min

What Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Taught Me About Activism

January 19, 2022 Philadelphia Gay News My parents were Civil Rights workers and co-founders of the Philadelphia to Philadelphia Project, an interracial group that operated between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, Mississippi. I learned activism from watching my parents and the Black men and women activists who came in and out of our home. I was too young then to understand the import of meeting those people from SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) an

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jan 19, 2022
5 min

Greg Herren: More Than Just Murder

January 19, 2022 Philadelphia Gay News While most of us spent our pandemic trying to remember to put on pants and brush our hair for that Zoom meeting, Greg Herren was being that guy, the one who had to write a book. Make that two books. And short stories. And essays. And planning two literary festivals. Herren is one of the best known and most read gay male mystery writers. The sheer volume of his work is as impressive as it is daunting. He’s published 67 books in all — 17

2022 Starts with Anti-LGBT+ Bills Proposed

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jan 12, 2022
4 min

2022 Starts with Anti-LGBT+ Bills Proposed

January 12, 2022 Philadelphia Gay News The new year has barely started, and 2022 is already a bad year for LGBTQ people. Republican legislators in Arizona, Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, New Hampshire and South Dakota have proposed a series of bills and policy proposals that specifically target trans and non-binary youth. Bills that would limit access to gender-affirming healthcare, the ability to participate in sports at all levels, and even, again, using the bathroo

New Poll Shows LGBTQ Youth Mental Health Negatively Impacted by Anti-Trans Bills

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jan 12, 2022
5 min

New Poll Shows LGBTQ Youth Mental Health Negatively Impacted by Anti-Trans Bills

January 12, 2022 Philadelphia Gay News A poll released January 10 by the Trevor Project shows that over two-thirds of LGBTQ+ youth say their mental health has been negatively impacted by the Republican-led efforts to curtail the rights of trans and non-binary people. The 24-page analysis “Issues Impacting LGBTQ Youth,” which was done in concert with Morning Consult polling, shows 7 in 10 LGBTQ+ youths report closely following recent news about issues that impact the trans co

Do We Have an Epidemic of Missing Women?

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jan 10, 2022
14 min

Do We Have an Epidemic of Missing Women?

January 10, 2022 DAME Magazine (damemagazine.com) A quarter of a million women and teenage girls are reported missing every year in the U.S. And many of these cases are connected to male violence. For a fleeting moment in 2021, we had a media flurry over missing women in America when YouTube influencer Gabby Petito was reported missing on September 11. But in the months since, that media frenzy and all the discourse around it has evaporated. It’s not that no other women have

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jan 5, 2022
5 min

A Day that Will Live in Infamy

January 5, 2022 Philadelphia Gay News On January 6, 2021 I was on deadline, glued to CNN, waiting for the certification of the 2020 election to go through so I could write the story. It was a formality, the certification. But since the election, President Trump had been mostly in seclusion, refusing to concede the election. The GOP had, for the most part, followed his lead, refusing to acknowledge that Joe Biden was the president-elect. It was disturbing and ahistorical, but

Better Times: Ringing in 2022 with Janis Ian

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jan 5, 2022
8 min

Better Times: Ringing in 2022 with Janis Ian

January 5, 2022 Queer Forty A Celebration of the Legacy and Lifetime of Folk Music Hero Janis Ian. Janis Ian has been a voice for several generations of women over more than a half century–first as a teen-aged rebel and later as an out lesbian with a monthly queer magazine column. With her latest album, Ian is making a final statement with her music and beginning a new chapter in her writing. Ian sat down to talk with Queer Forty, sharing her music, her writing and her life.

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