Losing allies is not good
State Rep. Brian Sims, to put it politely, lost his temper with State Rep. Tom Murt this week. This is not the first such...
Letter to the Editor
To PGN,
I work as a consultant with HHS, the city and a number of other agencies and companies. I have been doing this for...
Creep of the Week: Mike Pompeo
I’m in Philadelphia visiting my sister, and apparently during my trip there were Nazis marching here and chanting “fuck the gays.” Ah, America.
Meanwhile, people...
Gimmie Shelter
In 2016, right around this time of year, I wrote about an often-overlooked element of the United States government. While we do have a...
Meet Uncle Lindsey: Your Gay Neighbor Who Hates Gay Rights
“A person regarded as betraying their cultural or social allegiance.” That’s the definition of the phrase “Uncle Tom.” It’s a term used almost always...
We need more LGBTQ stories on screen
In this week’s issue, film columnist Gary Kramer writes about GLAAD’s Studio Responsibility Index. The report sheds light on LGBTQ characters —and oftentimes their...
Creep of the Week: Michael Heath
Corporate America, man. Who knew they had the power to do seemingly impossible things like getting the Washington football team that uses a racial...
Masks Are The New Condoms
During the last four months of this pandemic I’ve been doing a daily livestream on Facebook. Every day I say the same thing: “We're...
People are not numbers
If you’ve watched cable news any time in the past few months, you’ve seen the column of numbers on the right side of the...
For a little hope, look to history
Everything is cancelled. Pride celebrations, the Olympics, dining out on a Saturday night. We are living through an unprecedented time, and history books will...
We’re right here
Many years ago, very early in my own transition, I was listening to a drive-time talk show on KFI in Los Angeles. The topic...
How to use fame and foster dialogue
Most of you know actor Billy Porter from the TV show “Pose” or his starring role in the Broadway hit “Kinky Boots.” He is...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
Welp, the Supreme Court issued its abortion ruling that everyone has been bracing themselves for and as it turns out...wait, reproductive rights won? But...
Conversion therapy must be banned
A few months before my 16th birthday, I was expelled from my all-girls high school — Philadelphia High School for Girls — for being...
Data Collection That Actually Matters
Every year, PGN asks its readers to participate in the Community Marketing Insights Survey. It’s the largest survey of LGBTQ media consumers in the...
Creep of the Week: Roger Severino
Even if you know in your heart of rainbow hearts that the president of the United States and the cretins who work for him...
We stand with you
By the end of this year’s June Gay Pride Month, after doing countless interviews, it finally hit me. For my fellow members of Gay...
A Family-Run Newspaper
Words are important, and over time they take on a meaning of their own. Take, for example, "One man, one woman,” or "religious freedom,"...
Congress Must Act for LGBTQ People
On June 15, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bostock v. Clayton that gay, lesbian and trans people are covered by Title VII of...
Water in the Desert
Netflix has recently released “Disclosure,” a documentary created by Sam Feder, Amy Scholder and Laverne Cox, which features a cast of trans and nonbinary...
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