Letters
Barred from heaven Remember that song, “Jesus Loves Me”? Well, if you’re lesbian, gay or transgender, apparently Jesus doesn’t love you enough to...
Pope Francis: If you don’t have something nice to say, then say nothing.
It’s disappointing, though not surprising, that Pope Francis recently came out and said that the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions. The man has...
It’s no comedy
The top two movies on the American Film Institute’s top 100 movies ever made have something in common.
The first is “Some Like It Hot”...
Democratic debate shows why we need queer media
Most weeks, someone asks me on social media why I “waste my time” writing for the queer press. I write predominantly for the mainstream...
Creep of the Week: Marjorie Taylor Greene
Pop Quiz: Which of the following are things that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene believes?
Forest fires are started intentionally by Jewish space lasers; Covid-19 is...
On the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
As of Sept. 20, the discriminatory law known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ceases to exist. No longer will patriotic gay and...
Equality still needs fighting for
The claim that racism and bigotry are dead in America has lost all credibility in the wake of a suburban Philadelphia swim-club incident that...
Your PGN
Most likely, if you’re a regular reader of PGN, as you’re looking through the pages of this paper today you haven’t noticed any changes....
Creep of the Week — Tom Cotton
OK, let’s get one thing straight here. If you are an everyday American citizen (a commoner, let’s say), you have very little...
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...
HRC doing nothing again
The Human Rights Campaign must learn to actually do something other than issue press releases announcing its positions on various federal judicial nominations. The...
Transgender Day of Remembrance
The annual day of observance on Nov. 20 that honors the memory of those trans folks we’ve lost to anti-transgender violence and bigotry has...
A roadmap for Pride’s future
On behalf of the board of directors of Philly Pride, its executive director, our volunteers and board interns, I would like to thank the...
How not to come out
Many people in the LGBT community will agree that coming out is an intensely personal and individual process. As a community whose members have...
Time for renewal and unification
Welcome back from summer. What did you miss? Let’s see Marvel announced another LGBT character, scientists say there’s no one single gay gene, rather...
Simply saddening
There are events in life in which human compassion simply cannot ignore the utterly inhumane nature of perpetrator against victim. Abu Ghraib,...
Mr. President, here’s our timeline, part 2
In last week’s column, we gave the numbers and the need for repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and, more importantly, the need for...
Creep of the week: Michael Brown
Backlash. That’s what we’re seeing here in the flurry of anti-LGBT (and heavy on the T) legislation that’s been proposed and passed across the...
Focus, Activism Needed Now
On Oct. 15, I asked Joe Biden a question at his Philadelphia town hall about Amy Coney Barrett’s rushed Supreme Court confirmation process and...
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