Polling Pennsylvania
A number of new polls over the past few weeks have offered interesting insight into the Keystone State’s LGBT community — and its growing...
Equality on the road
Road trips can often help keep you in touch and remind you of areas that you have not given much thought to. ...
A welcome return
This column is my first after a two-week vacation. So, this morning was my first opportunity to look over the last two...
New Beginnings
With the New Year upon us, we are in the most opportune place to look both backward and forward — to use the lessons...
Take care of those you love this holiday
It’s been a rough two years, or a rough ten years depending on who you ask. The holiday season brings with it the challenges...
The Other Thanksgiving
Each year, columnists around the country think to themselves “is there something new that I can write about Thanksgiving?” I’ve written at least 30...
Safe schools aren’t a luxury: A Pennsylvania mom’s fight for her non-binary child
The school principal wanted to talk about the dress. It was “inappropriate,” she said.
I remember just staring at the principal when she said this,...
Creep of the Week: Gov. Ron DeSantis
Well, he signed it. Just like everyone expected. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. And not only did he sign...
Your equal rights might be gone soon, in Pa. and elsewhere
While the hope was always that the fight for equality would be a path forward, with each new victory — Lawrence, Don’t Ask Don’t...
Help shape the future of LGBTQ news
Can I ask you a favor? It’s all about what the future of Philadelphia Gay News will be. Although journalism is changing, it still...
When Coming Out Is a Death Sentence
October 11 was National Coming Out Day. It’s a day when LGBTQ people reach out on social media to support others coming out with...
Hard work and perseverance during a difficult year
This morning a package arrived at PGN offices. The package contained five plaques for the five National Newspaper Association awards that PGN has won...
They won’t be home for Christmas
Despite Omicron and Delta variants converging in a perfect storm of surging COVID-19 cases, the nation is still bustling with holiday cheer. Malls are...
Creep of the Week: Betsy McCaughey
I discovered a really cool book over the weekend called “Bodies Are Cool” by Tyler Feder. My sister bought a copy for her daughter,...
Taking back 2022
The holidays can be a hard time to be a trans person. More often than not, we don’t have a lot of family to...
252 articles, 14 writers, and 19 years of Nizah Morris
Two hundred fifty two. That’s the number of articles that PGN has done on the Nizah Morris case, a little more than one a...
Our Unwritten LGBT History
I’m in Chicago, Skokie to be exact, at the Illinois Holocaust Museum, which is hosting the LGBT history exhibit “Rise Up Stonewall.” The exhibit...
Members of the resistance
Sitting here sipping my hot chocolate on a Sunday morning, I’m having a hard time thinking of a good reason why the Treason Party...
Creep of the Week: Gov. Ron DeSantis
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