Double standards
Singer Adam Lambert caused a flap this week when he kissed a male keyboardist and thrust a female dancer’s face into his crotch during...
Creep of the Week: Linda Harvey
Calling all homos: Do you live near anyone facing foreclosure? Well, the least you can do is help them move — because it turns...
Weekend of looking back, looking forward
The Rev. Jeffrey Jordan of Metropolitan Community Church of Philadelphia shouts from the pulpit, “Mark Segal, here’s something historic to put in...
By youth, for youth
This week, PGN marks its first-ever supplement written specifically for and by LGBT and ally youth, an exciting development that aims to show our...
Mike Huckabee
Good news, Jews. Former Arkansas governor and Fox TV host Mike Huckabee isn’t going to force you to sell “bacon-wrapped shrimp” in your delis...
Gun violence is literally killing us
America was still reeling from the mass femicide in Atlanta last week that killed seven women, six of them Asian, when the Boulder shooting...
[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...
Tilting at trolls and Uncle Ruckus
“Don’t feed the trolls,” my friend Mark Thompson tells me after watching me cross words on Twitter with some right-wing genius patriots, as they...
1st District Councilmanic endorsement?
We are about a month out now from the May 17 primary. Of great importance to many of us this primary is...
Protecting the dream
If there’s one lesson that emerged in the last nine months of political turmoil, it’s the importance of recognizing intersectionality. LGBT issues impact women’s...
Creep of the Week: Matt Barber
America is a weird place. On the one hand, we have court after court giving the legal middle finger to antigay-marriage laws...
On the OutFest fiasco
There’s a national message in something that happened in Philadelphia about a week ago at a festival known as OutFest. The festival,...
The gay part of impeachment…
There isn’t one, that we know of. Those being investigated during Trump’s impeachment inquiry are not LGBTQ, as far as we know, and most...
Creep of the Week: Omar Mateen
No one on an FBI watch list should be able to easily buy a gun. No one should be allowed to buy a gun...
Gift giving that matters
In the earliest days of what would eventually become my transition, within weeks of my first coming out to the person who would become...
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...
Creep of the Week: Tony Perkins
If Tony Perkins knew you were coming, he’d have baked a cake. That is, so long as you aren’t gay and the...
The Hidden Epidemic
This op-ed discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is at risk of suicide, The National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255 and is...
The warriors fighting AIDS
Last week for World AIDS Day, Penn Medicine honored me with its Red Ribbon Pioneer Award. Truth is, it really hadn’t dawned on me,...
Creep of the Week: Robert C. Jones
In the uphill battle for marriage equality, gays and lesbians have had to stare down many a disappointing court decision where bias and homophobia...
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