A N.J. camp for children of gay parents offers acceptance and refuge.
At Mountain Meadow summer camp, kids' parents come in pairs.
Pairs of moms and pairs of dads.
Isabel Rieser, 16, a Penn Charter junior into soccer and instant messaging, has two dads. So does Jon Nelson, 11, a wrestler and video-gamer from East Stroudsburg, Pa.
Eight months into her appointed tenure as city solicitor, Shelley Smith's docket is jammed with high-profile cases involving the Boy Scouts, guns and abused children.
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Despite Mikhail S. Gorbachev's controversial statements last week supporting Russia's invasion of Georgia, the former Soviet leader is still scheduled to receive the 2008 Liberty Medal next month, the president of the National Constitution Center said yesterday.
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Judging by its new lineup, the city's embattled Commission on Human Relations won't have an issue with diversity.
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Don't let the 5-foot-2, 100-pound package fool you. Rue Landau knows how to throw her weight around. Four weeks into her tenure as head of Philadelphia's Commission on Human Relations, the elfin activist is swinging a heavy hammer in her mission to revitalize the beleaguered city agency, which investigates discrimination complaints.
- A deja-vu mission for 2 ClintoniansThere's no such thing as a short story when Mark Aronchick is telling it. Like everything in Aronchick's life, words are an energy pool into which the Center City lawyer dives headfirst, coming up for air only when forced to inhale.
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Making the police safe for gay officers
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Philadelphia's new police commissioner is pushing a more open attitude toward brotherly love in the city. Within his own ranks, Charles H. Ramsey wants to make it safe for gay and lesbian officers to be out of the closet amid a macho culture that, he acknowledges, keeps most of them in hiding.
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You don't see many women at Woody's, but Chelsea Clinton popped in last week. To a packed house of screaming supporters, the 28-year-old former first child led a presidential pep rally for her mother at one of the oldest gay bars in Philadelphia.
- Phyllis Beck and Alice Beck Dubow may have started a judicial dynasty.They speak in shorthand. Hate to cook. Share a passion for social justice and Scrabble and books-on-tape and La Bohème. Are both size 6 Democrats.
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For Drexel, planning D-Day is no trip to the beach. As host of tonight's Democratic presidential debate, the university has spent the last month coordinating a plethora of logistical details.
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He's here, he's queer, call him Your Honor. Backed by a lone bagpiper, Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Daniel Anders will take the oath of office today at City Hall - the first openly gay man to don the (judicial) robe in city history.
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Local labor leader Thomas Paine Cronin, for whom every mayor is King George III, loves a good fight. So it comes as no surprise that the former middleweight boxer says what he'll miss most when he hangs up his gloves tomorrow will be slugging it out with Philadelphia's elected monarchs.
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