First LGBT endorsements of the year
The LGBT community is just bursting with political candidates of its own this year, and some are already openly preparing for next year’s City...
Cardinal Rigali and LGBT rights
Cardinal Justin Rigali and I had an opportunity to chat at the swearing-in of new District Attorney Seth Williams. Rigali and his...
Creep of the Week: Ann Coulter
Perhaps it was Ann Coulter’s very public referral to former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as a “faggot” that nabbed her an invitation to...
It’s Time for Safe Injection Sites
Among the worst and most consequential policy decisions we’ve ever made as a nation was choosing to treat drug addiction as a crime....
Musing on loss
I am no stranger to trans mortality.
When I got my first taste of community on the early trans internet, one of my friends and...
Don’t wait for a federal Equality Act. Go local instead.
When speculating what Joe Biden’s first 100 days will look like, a lot of media outlets have written about the president-elect’s vow to sign...
A restroom, a symbol
In November 2011, I found myself making a whirlwind trip to Washington, D.C., to be part of a meeting in the Eisenhower Executive Office...
Linda Wall
Don’t you hate it when you wake up one day and realize your entire life has been one long improv sketch masterminded by Satan?...
GAG order
After a weekend of back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, an organization, Gays Against Guns, held a rally with some...
Reporting live from Denver: Highlights from sitting, aspiring senators
I had an opportunity to chat with Sen. Bob Casey while in Denver and talked about an idea Rep. Barney Frank suggested...
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...
David and Goliath?
Last Sunday, Bishop Eddie Long, leader of the Atlanta megachurch New Birth Missionary Baptist, likened himself to David in the biblical story of David...
Community support during the holidays
If you’re feeling optimistic about the holiday season, it could be because of how far we’ve come as a community. When this column began,...
Wishes granted
A very well deserved congratulations to the William Way LGBT Community Center for securing a $1 million grant from the state of Pennsylvania that...
Why inclusion matters at work
I came out almost 30 years ago to my family and friends. Personally, I have lived my life authentically as a gay woman in...
The end of the slippery slope
I’ve heard some variation of this kind of argument more times than I can count: “If we let gays marry, next we’ll have to...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
If you’ve been following the news at all, you may have noticed that there are massive protests against the political failure to address climate...
Creep of the Week: Dinesh D’Souza
Are you sitting down? Because this may come as quite a shock: Another antigay stalwart and “defender” of marriage has been caught in a...
Creep of the week: Raúl Labrador
With the massacre of men and women at a gay club in Orlando barely behind us, one could perhaps be forgiven for thinking that...
Discrimination and the Catholic Church
We got a flood of reaction to our front page last week. The first reaction to last week’s PGN Person of the...
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