Grieving LGBTQIA+ youth in Philadelphia get support from their community
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What is the LGBT community?
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The cult of J.K. Rowling
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Poltergeist or patriot? You decide.
Republican candidate Herschel Walker, during the Georgia US Senate debate on October 14, showed off an honorary deputy sheriff badge he had received, as...
Creep of the Week: Texas
In the United States, everybody knows that you don’t mess with Texas. That’s because you don’t have to. Texas will undoubtedly mess with you.
Honestly,...
The litterbox myth
October is no stranger to urban legends, dating back at least to Washington Irving’s 1819 Halloween favorite, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Of course,...
Brutal murder of Palestinian gay man is a reminder to all LGBT people
A 25 year old man was killed. His attacker first brutalized and then beheaded him. Did I mention he was gay? Did I mention...
Creep of the Week: Tudor Dixon
Midterm elections are upon us, my friends. People in Michigan already have ballots in hand. In fact, mine just came today. I can’t wait...
PGN Endorsements: Democrats protect LGBTQ people. Republicans don’t.
Republicans are playing political games with people’s lives. There’s no other way to say it at this point.
None of their legislation, from banning trans...
Creep of the Week: The Radical Right
In Iran, Islamic religious police detained Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, for wearing her hijab too loosely. Reports say that some of her hair...
Get your vaccines, wear a mask, and take care of yourself
Last winter, Covid-19 infections spiked in Philadelphia, with around 3,000 new cases per day on average (and that’s not counting people who didn’t report...
Creep of the Week: Pro-Lifers
In the assault on reproductive freedom in the United States, there’s one thing I can’t wrap my brain around. According to the people who...
Tulsi Gabbard is not done with us yet
October 11 was National Coming Out Day. Former Hawaii House representative and 2020 Democratic presidential contender Tulsi Gabbard also came out that day, as...
Markings of the Holocaust underscore our shared humanity
by Eszter Kutas
In most tellings of the Holocaust, the Jewish community takes center stage. And for good reason — Jewish people were the Nazis’...
20 Years: Gwen Araujo and the steady trickle of anti-transgender violence
Around 20 years ago, somewhere in the middle of October, 2002, I was talking with another trans activist friend of mine. At the time,...
The GOP’s genteel complicity in madness
Sen. Mitch McConnell, whose ruthless scheming packed our federal courts with wildly unrepresentative radical conservatives, is at least sensible enough to despise Donald Trump...
Why “Bros,” a gay rom com, failed at the box office
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