Marriage woes
As PGN goes to press, same-sex marriage is the final issue holding up the end of the legislative session in the New York Senate,...
PA’s gay Republican? A good thing
A Republican Christian right-of-center state representative from a conservative Pennsylvania district has come out — and some in our community have reacted like the...
Creep of the Week: Linda Harvey
After years of arguing that being gay is not a choice and that gay people can’t magically become straight via a wish and a...
Hillary Clinton’s PGN op-ed
As you saw on the cover of PGN this week, and most likely were surprised by, we are running an op-ed from the Democratic...
What is the PGN staff most proud of this Pride season?
Carol: I’m very proud to be a part of a great team at PGN. I’m also very proud of the community that has learned...
Business bias
This week’s PGN carries a story about a lesbian couple who was refused service at a bridal-dress shop in Pennsylvania. It’s...
Vote, vote, vote
If we learned anything from the 2016 presidential election, it’s the importance of getting out to the polls on Election Day. ...
Golden age of journalism
I’m going to take a liberty and break one of my major rules about LGBT publishing that dictates that all coverage must be about...
Accountability needed in Morris case
There are too many troubling questions relating to the unsolved homicide of Nizah Morris for Philadelphia police to continue stonewalling rather than responding to...
The Lines Blur
Caster Semenya is a South African middle-distance runner. She took home Olympic gold in 2012 and 2016 and has won the world championships three...
The responsibility to get history right
In the New York Times obituary of Senator Jesse Helms, the author, Steven Holmes, writes: “ fought bitterly against federal financing for AIDS research...
Feedback
In response to “Kenney confirms mayoral run,” Jan. 30: I am glad that Kenney is running. I was proud to work with him on...
We need more LGBTQ historians
As an undergraduate at Temple University, I was a student member of the committee that founded the women’s studies department. It was an exciting...
Why community spaces matter
There was a recent opinion article in The Guardian titled “With queer spaces closed due to Covid, I feel more disconnected than ever from...
Why we need to care about unsolved trans deaths
Nizah Morris. Rita Hester. Marsha P. Johnson. Three icons in the trans community. Three unsolved deaths. Marsha P. Johnson is famous worldwide for her...
Post-election regrouping
The nation saw history made in 2008 when Barack Obama was elected the country’s first African-American president. His repeat White House win...
Not a banner, but a historic LGBT year
Do you appreciate the watershed moment in LGBT history we are witnessing? If any of you doubt that we are living in historic times...
Mayor Pete will make a great Secretary of Transportation
In my October Q & A with candidate Joe Biden, I asked whether he would put LGBT people in his cabinet. His answer was...
Community support during the holidays
If you’re feeling optimistic about the holiday season, it could be because of how far we’ve come as a community. When this column began,...
Culture of bullying
Editorial This week, Upper Darby police arrested seven teens who are accused of bullying a fellow student. On Jan. 11,...
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