I asked, you answered
Every so often I ask my Facebook and Twitter friends (about 30,000) to suggest subjects for me to address in this column. Here are...
Remember
George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Michael Lorenzo Dean, Eric Reason, Christopher McCorvey, Christopher Whitfield, Atatiana Jefferson, Dominique Clayton, Pamela Turner, Botham Jean, Antwon...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
As I write this, the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is on fire. It is a terrible loss to anyone who cares about history....
The Need for Pride
With the dramatically building support for LGBT issues in the past few years, some community members have questioned the necessity of Pride celebrations, promulgating...
When political connections allow discrimination, we fight back
For our family at PGN, this has been what you might call a mixed couple of weeks. It started with the death of one...
An early and very personal Christmas present
There’s an old saying that when we’re young our parents watch over us, and we return the favor as adults when our parents...
Pennsylvania Trans Youth: Fighting for our Lives
My name is Preston Heldibridle. I’m 19 years old, I just graduated from high school in York County and I am transgender. I was...
Creep of the Week: Linda Harvey:
Your son just fell off the monkey bars, shattering a kneecap and busting out some teeth. Your kid is screaming in pain,...
Organizations that didn’t pass the Stonewall 50 test
The 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots have passed, and as an integral part of the anniversary and the 50 years leading up to...
Discrimination in the workplace is a sad reality for LGBT people
A recent study from the Williams Institute revealed something you probably already know: discrimination against LGBT people is rampant in many workplaces. It’s so...
Cheers and jeers for lawmakers
Elections must be coming. The state’s political leaders are speaking out, for and against LGBT issues, courting votes and ostracizing constituents. ...
Sex as resistance
Sometimes it feels easy to answer the question “What is SEXx?” “It’s community events we do throughout the year on sex and sexuality,” I...
Creep of the week: Michael Brown
Backlash. That’s what we’re seeing here in the flurry of anti-LGBT (and heavy on the T) legislation that’s been proposed and passed across the...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
Quick, look out your window! You may get a fleeting glimpse of our so-called president waving through the window of a hermetically sealed SUV...
Open dialogue
This week, Mayor Nutter met with local LGBT business owners, seeking their input on city budget priorities as part of a series of stakeholder...
Redefining American history
To commemorate October as LGBT History Month, PGN is running a series of articles each week showcasing men and women who were a part...
Franklin Graham
Hello and welcome to a world where a gay man with the word “butt” in his last name is running for president and it...
How to win funds and influence people
This past week was a killer. I participated in a historic conference at the Department of Housing and Urban Development headquarters in...
Pat Robertson (again)
Back in the late ’90s on “Saturday Night Live,” Will Ferrell played Neil Diamond in a spoof of VH1’s “Storytellers.” After Diamond has told...
America is failing rape victims
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