Matt Barber
America is a weird place. On the one hand, we have court after court giving the legal middle finger to antigay-marriage laws across the...
Creep of the Week: Samaritan’s Purse
Hospitals are for sick people. They are places of healing. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic tales of those on the front lines working tirelessly to...
Creep of the Week: Steve King
There comes a time in every thinking person’s life when he or she has to take a serious look in the mirror and say,...
Straightening up at the Boy Scouts of America
Sometime in the 1920s, my grandfather became the then-youngest Boy Scout to obtain the top rank of Eagle Scout. When he died,...
Creep of the Week: Ted Yoho
People who identify as gay or lesbian are often accused of being “confused,” especially when we first come out. As if heterosexuality...
Putting Philly’s LGBT community on the map
This week, our community is hosting not one but two national LGBT conventions/events. It’s a tribute to our community, and especially our...
And that’s the way it is
Walter Cronkite died last week. I took it hard emotionally, and I couldn’t quite understand it. I realized Walter summarized a lot...
Creep of the Week: Rod Dreher
Strike up the band and start the parade, ladies and gentlemen and those who identify somewhere in between or beyond. Chick-fil-A has gone gay!...
Hot July politics
It’s a hot summer here on the East Coast, and usually a newspaper columnist expects that would be a period where people are tuning...
Creep of the Week: John Boehner
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but national approval of Congress is down. Like, way down. You know what’s more popular than...
Conversion therapy must be banned
A few months before my 16th birthday, I was expelled from my all-girls high school — Philadelphia High School for Girls — for being...
We are one for the ages
It amazes me how so many seem to view the notion of “transgender people” as if it were something that magically winked into existence...
Creep of the Week: Franklin Graham
“Pride month is over,” Christian evangelist Franklin Graham declared on Facebook. You hear that, everybody? Those rainbow flags should all be taken down and...
Give us some love, guv
The bill that would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression” to the state’s nondiscrimination law was voted out of the House State...
If you build it …
It seems like a lot of people are beginning to realize how awesome Philly is — which we’ve all known for some time, of...
Feedback: Oct. 30-Nov. 5
In response to “Advocates march on D. C., divided on Obama,” Oct. 16-22, 2009: I am a transsexual woman. I have...
The defeat of DOMA: Does it mean the end of marriage inequality in U.S....
On June 26, the U. S. Supreme Court held that the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, is unconstitutional. Writing for the majority,...
SCOTUS serendipity
Breaking news and special issues are probably the two biggest headaches for the PGN staff. This past week, we had a lot of both...
In response to “Philly Archdiocese only one in nation to sponsor antigay D.C. event,”...
I am writing to offer an additional perspective to those mentioned in the PGN’s article concerning the Philadelphia Archdiocese’s sponsorship of the March for...
Creep of the Week: Randy Garber
Oh, hey! Did you hear that in Kansas lawmakers are trying to establish the LGBTQ community as a religion? Or, more specifically, they’re trying...
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