Creep of the Week: Mark Green
President Donald Trump is continuing his tradition of filling posts in his cabinet with people who are actively opposed to LGBT people having rights...
Not Your Performance
Scarlett Johansson is in the news again. The actress and sometimes singer faced heavy criticism after she — a white woman — played an...
Pride dilemmas and position
Open letter to the LGBT community from Philly Pride Presents: There will be two large gay events on Sunday, May 1, 2011. ...
Pam Bondi
Well, it’s happened. A federal judge has ruled that Florida’s antigay marriage ban is unconstitutional. In his opinion, Judge Robert L....
Creep of the Week: Trump administration
June is Pride Month, which means anti-LGBTQ folks are losing their goddamn minds. I attended Motor City Pride in Detroit with my wife,...
Creep of the Week: Rick Santorum
Look, loyal readers of my column. I know what you’re going to say: “Rick Santorum again? Haven’t you written enough about this...
Free Ivan
The front page of this issue of PGN features a story on a couple whose happy day was upended last month. ...
Community gathers, violence continues
This weekend held two events crucial to the local and regional LGBTQ community: OutFest and Philly Trans March. With different missions and intentions, both...
Building bridges with the NAACP
Building allies in any civil- or human-rights movement is an essential element to success. No such movements can be won without the...
Election victories for LGBTQ candidates
Tuesday’s elections proved successful for LGBTQ candidates. Of the 200 known LGBTQ candidates running in elections, 99 were declared winners by Wednesday evening. Those...
3 trials offer hope for HIV vaccine
December is AIDS Awareness Month, and this year researchers are offering some good news.
Three trials offer hope that a vaccine for HIV could be...
The cost of Pride
This past week, the city’s budget crisis hit home for Philadelphia’s LGBT community. After years of receiving traffic and crowd control services without...
And Pride marches on
Last weekend, the LGBTQIA-plus community witnessed a historic Pride parade as WorldPride took New York City by storm. More than 4-million...
Rethinking the scholarship options
I agree with your point on the GLBT community boycotting Israel . On your point about reactivating the Sally Tyre Fund, I say what...
’08 a good year? ’09 promising?
On a state level, the community showed incredible political maturity last year. Along with our friends in the House and Senate, we...
Justice for Diamond
Common Pleas Court Judge Diana L. Anhalt gave Charles Sargent some harsh but absolutely necessary words this week. “Your crime was...
Long-term activism pays off
“To this 40-year activist, the symbolism of President Barack Obama addressing the American people on Inauguration Day in front of the Lincoln Memorial with...
National readers, this is a local love story
The one point that my mother and father taught me that still inspires me to this day is to not only thank those people...
Steve King
I shall begin this week’s column with a limerick: There once was a Republican named Steve who was racist like you wouldn’t believe but...
A letter to the LGBTQIA community in response to Kim Burrell
Recently, gospel recording artist Kim Burrell was filmed giving a “homophobic” sermon at the Love and Liberty Fellowship Church in Houston. In this sermon,...
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