Ending the neglect
Last month, a study from the Foundation for AIDS Research, entitled “Trans Populations and HIV: Time to End the Neglect,” detailed the overwhelming health...
Creep of the Week: David Usher
Think back to all of the times you’ve heard straight women say things like, “Ugh, I wish I could be a lesbian, it would...
The biggest LGBT stories of 2020
Although Trump continued to chip away at the rights our community has attained over the last few years, we did make some amazing gains...
Creep of the Week: Trump Supporters
By the time you read this, Joe Biden will be the President and the worst president in U.S. history will be history. I truly...
Creep of the Week: Bob McDermott
If there’s one thing middle-school students don’t need it’s sex education. Because sex is icky and makes some people uncomfortable. It also...
[email protected]: A Photographic Retrospective
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of The COLOURS Organization, a nonprofit organization in Philadelphia that has provided social-justice initiatives, community-building...
Letters and Feedback
In October, gay marriage was legalized in New Jersey through Supreme Court Judge Mary Jacobson, who ruled “the ineligibility of same-sex couples for federal...
Don’t cry for us, Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley, one of the few sane people — and even fewer women — in top positions in the Trump administration and a former...
Noting Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,...
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,...
That time when the now-D.A. defended the activist
You know that old expression, A picture is worth a thousand words? Well, what about, A picture is worth an incredible memory and a...
Creep of the Week: Gary McCullough
Ellen DeGeneres has got to be so pissed at Gary McCullough right now. Everything was going so well for her on “American...
Creep of the Week: Michele Bachmann
My dear Gaymericans, it has come to my attention that there is some concern about a woman named Michele Bachmann. The scuttlebutt...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
At 8:55 a.m. July 26 Donald Trump tweeted: “After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States...
Republican Party, stuck in the past
In March, I suggested in this column that Sen. Arlen Specter change parties since, as we pointed out, it was doubtful he...
A pilgrimage to where my hero lies
Over the holidays, I had the closest thing to a pilgrimage that I'll ever know.
Many of you don't know the name Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld,...
Weiss brothers defended
Editor: I am dismayed the PGN has yet to repudiate the vicious comments posted on your website following your January articles about the...
In 2022, let’s face the music and dance
On Christmas morning I counted my blessings over breakfast in a hotel restaurant. It was a balmy day, so afterward I sat at one...
This election, it’s about taxes and jobs for the LGBT community
Taxes. Could you imagine a Jew or Catholic voting for a candidate who was opposed to Catholics marrying Jews, or interracial marriage?...
Number 19
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