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Published: Oct 13, 2010

VOICE OF THE DETAINEES

I'm so glad there are people like you out there to be the voice of the detainees [Naked City, "And Stay Out," Holly Otterbein, Oct. 7, 2010]. My son's father, Davy Phean, is also locked up in York awaiting deportation along with Mout Iv and the other men. Davy's situation is almost identical. His family and I are trying everything we can think of. Mia-Lia Kiernan and Davy's lawyer are doing what they can to help him. I tried going public and contacting the news and the papers when Davy was first detained, but no one really seems to care or want to listen. But I just wanted to say that I really appreciate your article and thank you.

Please. City Paper cloaks itself in righteous anger over Philadelphia Weekly's cover [A Million Stories, Oct. 7], going so far as to shamelessly link it with the Rutgers freshman killing itself to generate even more outrage, but your motivations are transparent: To somehow discredit a bigger, better, more widely read Philly alt-weekly newspaper that you envy and whose content you can't compete with week to week. Stop pretending to actually care about LGBT issues or exploit them for your own selfish purposes! You're nothing but hypocrites.

Since [Philadelphia Weekly is] my former employer, I won't take a position on the cover image. But I do want to say this: It's hard to take righteous anger about LGBTQ issues seriously when it's next to a Pat Toomey ad [online]. Toomey is in favor of banning adoption for gay people, is against gay marriage, and is against hate crime legislation to protect the LGBTQ community. I know it was a sales thing and not an edit thing, and I know we're all trying to survive in this mess of an economy, but someone should get some balls and say, "No, we won't take ads from homophobes." Take a stand, CP!

Editor's note: Those aren't City Paper-sold ads; rather, they're Google ads, which is why you'll also notice Toomey ads popping up on liberal sites like Daily Kos. FYI: Click on them, and you'll cost his campaign a couple cents he can't use elsewhere.

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