40 Years Ago in PGN: April 15-21, 2016
Tepid response from new City Council on gay-rights bill Adapted from reporting by Harry Langhorne Philadelphia’s new City Council appeared equally divided on a...
Highlighting History: 40 Years, 40 Stories
In one sense, 40 years is a relatively short time. But, for a community beginning to come into its own, four decades can mean...
LGBT issues not hot topic with Bernie and Hillary in Philly
Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both campaigned Wednesday in Philadelphia ahead of the state’s April 26 primary, but neither spent much time on...
PGN at 40: Out in the Community
PGN has had the privilege of witnessing and reporting on the evolution of the LGBT community in the last 40 years. This special section is...
Day in the Life Of: Philadelphia Gay News
Armed with nothing but her notebook, pen and minimal background information, PGN staff writer Paige Cooperstein got to work last month to get the...
Editors shaped PGN’s 40-year legacy
Al Patrick considered himself a news hound more than a gay activist. After graduating from Temple University with a journalism degree, he started working...
Printing, advertising evolution reflects changes in community
Because Don Pignolet had a truck, he got drawn into Philadelphia Gay News as its second issue printed in February 1976. ...
The 1,000 words captured in every image
If ever there was a daunting task lurking along the back walls of the PGN office, this was the year it materialized. Six huge...
PGN at 40: Behind the Scenes
For our 40th, the staff here at PGN decided to bring you into our world and show you what goes into putting out this paper...
PA Gov. to ban LGBT discrimination by state contractors
On Thursday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is expected to issue executive orders that seek to close gaps created by the state legislature’s lack of...
Community still facing same issues, says COLOURS founder on 25th anniversary
Michael Hinson called the 25th-anniversary celebration of The COLOURS Organization bittersweet. “It’s exciting the organization has survived,” said Hinson, who founded...
40 Years Ago in PGN: April 8-14, 2016
First Gay Lobby Day in Harrisburg Adapted from reporting by M. David Stein About 80 gay activists met with nearly as...
Four decades of PGN
The LGBT community has changed over the last four decades, as has Philadelphia Gay News’ role in engaging with it. When...
PGN journalist’s 40-year adventure
I’ve written news stories for PGN for 40 years, making me one of the longest-serving journalists for an LGBT news outlet in the world....
The tale of the purple vending box
PGN’s vending boxes originally were my idea. I saw an alternative paper called the Drummer using them and thought that if...
The team behind PGN, Volume 1
“With the publication of the first issue of the Philadelphia Gay News, a whole new dimension has been added to Philly’s gay community and,...
In Memoriam, PGN staff
Throughout PGN’s 40 years, our pages have carried countless obituaries on members of our community. As a community newspaper, we have remained committed to...
PGN Fast Facts
Want to know some tidbits about PGN? We thought so... Reaching our readers -First issue was published Jan. 3, 1976 -Went...
Faces of PGN
Our offices have been populated over the years by hundreds of folks — from advertising reps to writers to photographers to designers to support...
243 awards and counting …
PGN is the nation's most-awarded LGBT publication. We've garnered at least 243 awards in our 40 years from local, state and national press associations. For...
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