Gay Pennsylvania State Rep. Brian Sims (D-Philadelphia) is under investigation by local police for making “veiled and direct threats” against a Republican lawmaker during a heated phone conversation on Monday night, Aug.
3, according to the alleged target of the threats. Republican state Rep. Thomas Murt, who represents a district along the border of Philadelphia and a suburban county, told the Washington Blade that Sims appears to have become irate when he learned that Murt sent a memo that same day to fellow lawmakers asking them to co-sponsor an “LGBTQ+ Bill of Rights.” Murt said he and three fellow lawmakers plan to co-introduce the bill in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives after making a few last minute “tweaks” to the