Creep of the Week: Randy Thomasson
Remember when you got your driver’s license and under “gender” you had to choose male, female or AIDS? Of course you...
Creep of the Week: Charmaine Yoest
President Trump’s goal to fill cabinet positions only with people who are diametrically opposed to what said cabinet is supposed to do continues. This...
Our resolutions
Carol: To make sure I get that shopping mall that I wished for on Christmas. Oh, of course fully stocked. Chris:...
Democratic debate shows why we need queer media
Most weeks, someone asks me on social media why I “waste my time” writing for the queer press. I write predominantly for the mainstream...
Creep of the Week: One Million Moms
I’ve gone from grocery store to grocery store buying up every box of the Kellogg’s Together With Pride cereal and I have them all...
Two At-Large seats, one LGBT candidate
Spilled blood over the May Democratic primary between LGBT rivals seems to have cast a shadow over this November's election for LGBT voters, as...
Looking for an end to HIV/AIDS
World AIDS Day is always a grim memorial. The day marks another year of stultifying numbers of people infected with HIV/AIDS. Another year of...
Pride and injustice
It’s Pride season, and I want to remind you that as everyone grabs a paper cup of slightly cool beer and goes out to...
Creep of the Week: T.I.
Attention, gays: Recently paroled felon and rapper T. I. thinks you are too sensitive. And maybe he’s right. Maybe years of being...
Stoning! What’s next? Perhaps a modern modest proposal
This week, new laws took effect in Brunei making gay sex and adultery not only punishable by death, but death by stoning. There has...
A shout out to heterosexuals
The last few weeks here at PGN have been somewhat bittersweet. Two weeks ago found many of our staff on stage...
After Pride comes change
On Sunday night, June 30, as I write this, we’re in the waning hours of Pride Month 2019. There’s still confetti, glitter and the...
Creep of the Week: Pat Robertson
I also thought Pat Robertson had died. Or, I should clarify: I think of him as dead, as in dead to me, because he...
LGBT community: Looking beyond 2008
I took a few moments to look over 2008 from a transgender and LGBT perspective. It struck me how contentious the...
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...
Of lights, family and the holidays
Christmas lights used to be wired in such a way that if one lightbulb on the string perished, the whole chain would fail to...
[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...
Creep of the Week: Laura Ingraham
By now, even if you don’t follow any kind of sportzball, you have heard about Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49ers player who refused...
Op-Ed: New Years resolutions
Many people make resolutions for the New Year, such as planning to make healthier eating choices or beginning a regular exercise regimen. ...
Queer, there and everywhere
In the last several weeks, LGBTQ people and issues have been spotlighted in many veins. Very often negatively as with the Trump Administration’s ban...
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