Suicide Prevention Month
September is Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month in the U.S. Suicide can affect anybody — any family or any workplace. Less than four months...
Rapid Onset
I have always been intrigued by history. I love to look at how things came together over time and how advances in knowledge, technology...
Is PrEP forgetting the LGBT community?
If you’re a member of the LGBT community, you’re affected by HIV/AIDS in many ways. And if you needed information related to AIDS/HIV when...
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...
Football season kicks off with bi visibility
Late last month, NFL veteran, Ryan Russell, came out as bisexual. The former Dallas Cowboy and Tampa Bay Buccaneer told CNN, “Once I finally...
Time for renewal and unification
Welcome back from summer. What did you miss? Let’s see Marvel announced another LGBT character, scientists say there’s no one single gay gene, rather...
Creep of the Week: Steve King
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Steve King is in trouble. It seems, and I take no delight in saying...
Responsible media coverage of the LGBTQIA-plus community
When the story of Maurice “Reese” Willoughby’s apparent death by suicide broke, all outlets pushed forward the same narrative: his death came as the...
Exist, we must
It’s so damned hard to be transgender right now and just existing is a radical act. It shouldn’t have to be. The Trump Administration...
It’s time to raise the age, PA!
State after state, town after town, communities in other states are moving quickly to address one of the most critical public health issues facing...
Letters To the Editor: International boycotts
If we’re going to boycott another nation’s products for human rights abuses, how about Saudi Arabia? They aren’t exactly friends to LGBT people and...
Political Roundup
My Labor Day weekend column is always one that muses on topics that just don’t make it in during the rest of the year. ...
Creep of the Week: Log Cabin Republicans
A day after it was announced that the Trump Administration was planning on making it easier for federal contractors to discriminate against LGBTQ workers,...
The anti-LGBTQ-plus legislation to watch this fall
PGN has covered various court cases this year that mention the Civil Rights Act and whether it covers LGBTQ individuals. Most recently has been...
Log Cabin Republicans Endorse Trump
It would be difficult to envision a president with a more virulent and toxically anti-LGBTQ agenda than Donald Trump. Yet on August 16,...
Some Palestinians: Don’t forget to kill the homosexuals?
No matter which side of the Israeli-Palestinian divide you’re on, and there are many, you might ask what is the responsibility of the LGBT...
Living outside the binary
Gender noncomformity is not a new concept and living outside of the binaries is not a new identity, though the term nonbinary was coined...
Creep of the Week: Don Grundman
Don Grundmann is not having the best month. He is very much not at all racist, and yet the people of Modesto, California,...
Trans community mourns, bears the brunt of violence
Fourteen Black trans women have been killed in the U.S. this year, including the most recent death of Pebbles LaDime in South Carolina on...
Creep of the Week: Candice Keller
Back to back mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, and by the time you read this, that list will probably have...



























