Lesbian
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People of Color
Drag Queen/KingAiden, 29
What gets to me is gay men talking about trans folks like they’re not “real” men, or “real” women… I’m just like them. I’m not in-between or unfinished or confused…I’m just me.
Executive Director of PhillyGayCalendar
MEN
As I look at the stamp mark on my hand from the door guy at North Star Bar I hope it never comes off. I want it as a reminder. If you were wondering to yourself last night, March 4, 2008, “Where are all the sexy bitches?” I can tell you Gay Philly they were at the MEN show.
Interview with designer Pietra
Pietra is a gifted woman with many talents that range from designing clothes and home decor to make-up artistry and even photography. She holds a degree from Drexel University in Photography and is currently in graduate school for Creative Writing. For over five years Pietra has provided us with stylish, colorful, and mood changing designs at prices that will even make my wallet happy.
Toby, Age 21
My dad was kinda your typical hard-ass conservative father. It’s all about family, getting married, having kids…about being a man. I guess that’s what he meant when he made fun of the gay guys he worked with—they weren’t real men.
Queer Rock
Perhaps you think that you are the only Rockband playing, Bowie sing-a-long, Bob Mould loving or even rap loving LGBT citizen in the city. So maybe you still use that hair brush as a microphone belting out tunes in front of the mirror as you get dressed for yet another night out of repetitive club music.
Terry, Age 19
But still, I was hearing it from everywhere else, boys like girls and girls like boys and that’s how it is. I started thinking to myself, maybe if I like boys, maybe I should have been born a girl.
Sara Felder’s JUNE BRIDE
Review of ‘Sara Felder’s JUNE BRIDE’
Random. Passionate. Cagey – Sometimes
Kelly Burkhardt, the head programmer of the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, on the making of her new film Tremble and Spark
Knock Me Off
Whether you realized it or not purchases and interests in knock-off apparel and accessories are through the roof. Are knock-offs a good thing?
David, Age 27
I’ve never been very good at this. Seems like I can’t figure out dating very well, but I can figure out how to have sex. I can figure out how to go meet in a club and hang out for an hour or two, then go fuck, but that’s not really doing it for me anymore