The universality of tragedy
Local and national headlines were dominated in the last week by news of the deadly building collapse at 22nd and Market streets, which killed...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
“I’m not going to the fucking White House.” Have more beautiful words ever been spoken by a world champion before? Megan Rapinoe of the...
What Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Taught Me About Activism
My parents were Civil Rights workers and co-founders of the Philadelphia to Philadelphia Project, an interracial group that operated between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia,...
Wedded bliss
This week marks PGN’s first Wedding Issue since marriage equality has come to our entire country. The PGN staff always looks...
Full-speed ahead
It is 9:27 p.m. on a rainy, dreary and humid June evening, and I’m in a Hampton Inn, on the interstate outside of Harrisburg,...
Weekend of wins
The LGBT event calendar was jam-packed last weekend with parties, galas and dedications, culminating in the 25th-annual OutFest. While each function was its own...
No room at the Inne
A lesbian couple was recently turned away from a Scranton-area wedding venue that admitted it has a stated policy that it does not host...
Creep of the Week: Milo Yiannopoulos
First Twitter came for Milo Yiannopoulos, and I did not speak out because I was not a racist. Then Facebook came for Milo Yiannopoulos,...
We’re with her
The differences between two major-party candidates for president have perhaps never been as stark as they are in the 2016 election. When it comes...
Unexpected allies
It’s a little hard to believe, but this week, former Vice President Dick Cheney again said he supported gay marriage. During...
New year. Healthier you.
Ah, January — the time when we contemplate resolutions to change, improve and make a difference. Maybe we pledge to start eating better...
Hallmark, Lifetime, the gay question
Like me, I'm sure you're beginning to think about the holidays. The Hallmark Channel and Lifetime are already running holiday romance movies 24/7. This...
Creep of the Week: Ken Cuccinelli
Let’s say, hypothetically, that you want to become Virginia’s next governor and you want to find a way to stand out and get noticed....
Make us count
Visibility is power. Conversely, invisibility is oppression — and that’s just what the Trump administration is seeking to do to LGBT Americans. ...
Creep of the Week: Ted Cruz
America is a tough place for sensitive men. Crying is forbidden unless a guy wants to be seen as some kind of...
Shut up, Pope, part II
Pope Benedict XVI just happens to be one of my favorite people. After all, thanks to a column I wrote about him...
Creep of the Week: Dr. Michael Brown
My 6-year-old son has two moms. For Mothers’ Day (and, yes, that’s where we put the apostrophe), he gave both my wife (a.k.a. “Mommy”)...
What lies ahead
In statehouses around the country, the 2020 legislative sessions have fired up — and with it, several bills have been introduced to curtail the...
Healthcare for all
It seems as though healthcare is on everyone’s mind, with the hostile town meetings and overblown rhetoric by pundits dominating the landscape. ...
Turning Points
Pride Month 2013 closed with a bang last week, setting the LGBT-rights movement on a new trajectory. The fall of the...
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