North Carolina shows the power of LGBT visibility
Does anyone recall the battle in North Carolina over HB2, the sweeping anti-LGBT law passed in 2017? Defeating such anti-LGBT legislation was a major...
Rainbow Railroad working to help LGBT Afghans flee country
When the Taliban were in control of parts of Afghanistan beginning in the late 1990’s, they made clear that the strictly followed Sharia Law,...
Creep of the Week: Trump administration
In a parallel universe somewhere, President Hillary Clinton is expanding access to health care in the United States and LGBTQ people are fully protected...
Donald Trump (yet again!)
Well, the Mueller report is out and to hear Donald Trump tell it, the entire thing contained only a hand-lettered note on wide-ruled notebook...
The past and present of Philly Pride
Something last week that appeared in PGN was a little unusual and might actually pave a path to solving the LGBT Pride decision in...
Creep of the Week: Tony Perkins
Onslaught is the name of a thrash metal band from the U.K. Rainbow is the name of a hard rock band once fronted by...
‘Leave Jane Shull alone’
Jane Shull at Philadelphia FIGHT doesn’t know me. She knew my brother Brett, though. Brett had a lot of challenges. He died in 2009...
Creep of the Week: Erick Erickson
Asked by a group of high-schoolers to share his thoughts about the LGBTQ community, Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) said something stupid. ...
Creep of the Week: Ramzan Kadyrov
File under “More bad news about Russia.” I know, I know. It seems like every time you turn around there’s yet...
What does it feel like?
For the moment, I want to speak to those readers who may not think of themselves as transgender.
You may think of transgender people as...
A wolf in sheep’s clothing
Over the years, PGN has reported on many of the University of Pennsylvania’s LGBTQ initiatives. We have an arts feature this week about the...
Ways to show pride without Pride
Even though the Philly Pride Festival has been rescheduled for September, that’s no reason not to celebrate and still show your LGBTQ colors this...
Creep of the Week: Andrea Lafferty
As you may have heard, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) has come out of the closet. Not as gay, but as the father...
Creep of the Week: Super Happy Fun America
If you said the words “Super Happy Fun America” to me and then asked me what that was, I would have guessed it was...
Why won’t judge, DA release Nizah Morris’ records?
This week, Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Edward C. Wright denied a request for records by trans attorney Julie Chovanas relating to the Nizah...
Our lives are not for laughs
Every week, I research all things gay news, both locally and nationally, to decide what might be appropriate for an editorial. This week, more...
Desperate times
The state of Arkansas recently turned the clock back several decades on LGBT equality. While efforts to ban LGBT discrimination have...
Endorsements
The LGBTQ community has a wealth of out candidates and allied incumbents running for office. We at PGN do not endorse based solely on...
Creep of the Week: Right Wing Conservatives
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Hallmark, Lifetime, the gay question
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