Creep of the Week: Florida’s Anti-Trans Athlete Law
Whenever I want to bum myself out, I do a Google news search for “Florida.” Because if terrible things are happening in the country,...
History is alive in Philadelphia
Philadelphia’s LGBT community sometimes just doesn’t appreciate what they have in their own backyard. What would you say if someone told you Philadelphia has...
Getting vaccinated is an act of LGBTQ equality
There’s an extremely simple, low-risk and high-reward thing you can do to help further LGBTQ equality: get a COVID vaccine. The upside to getting...
I’m angry
Right now, transgender people in America are under assault.
I mean that most literally. In the last four months, 14 transgender people — predominately trans...
PGN pushes forward
Viola Davis said it best on 60 minutes last week. During an interview about her breakout role as Ma Rainey, which got her an...
A reckoning for police and a referendum on oppression
There can be no true justice for murder victims. They can never be brought back to life. But accountability for their killers is a...
Discrimination in the workplace is a sad reality for LGBT people
A recent study from the Williams Institute revealed something you probably already know: discrimination against LGBT people is rampant in many workplaces. It’s so...
Pa. House, Senate bills would update state’s outdated definition of marriage
by John L. Micek
LGBTQ individuals nationwide won a historic victory in 2015 when the U.S. Supreme Court made same-sex marriages the law of the...
Jonathan Lovitz — Running for all of us
My name is Jonathan Lovitz. I’m an out gay man, proud union member, dedicated husband, and the son of a teacher and a small...
‘We are the victims’: Pa. House, Senate bills would ban gay, trans-panic defense
By John L. Micek
In January 2020, a man named Marcus Jones asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to grant him a new trial for his 2017 conviction in the...
Pa.’s horrible anti-transgender sports bill is horrible in dozens of other states, too
by John L. Micek
An eternity ago — or was it just last week? — a quintet of Republican lawmakers in the state House trotted...
Police violence is LGBTQ history, past and present
The modern LGBTQ civil rights movement was born out of police harassment and brutality against a group of gay men, butch lesbians and trans...
Voter suppression is an LGBTQ issue
With the plethora of sports organizations, corporations and other groups boycotting the state of Georgia, it’s clear that Republican-led voter suppression has not only...
Take pride in how we’ve handled the pandemic
It’s going to happen. We are heading down the homestretch of this pandemic and as we do we should be proud of how our...
We’ve come a long way
Author Patricia Highsmith (of “Carol” fame) once said “A newspaper is an anthology of cruel stories.” Having read back issue after back issue of...
The Anniversary Column
Who would imagine that starting a newspaper for the LGBT community would put you on the KKK hit list? That was only the beginning...
Through Trans Eyes
As I’ve spoken about many times before, we live in some unprecedented times when it comes to trans rights. Over 90 bills have been...
It’s not just Georgia — it’s Pennsylvania too
On March 25, Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed major election legislation into law. Kemp did so in a locked room surrounded by white...
Creep of the Week: Tony Perkins
It takes a hell of a lot of magical thinking to look around at how things are in the U.S. right now and say...
Should we out Catholic bishops?
Seriously, is it time to start to outing closeted U.S. Catholic Bishops? Let me help you out with an answer to that question. If...
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