Our story to tell
When I was a kid, there was precious little out in pop culture about trans issues. Sure, there were movies like “The Christine Jorgensen...
Moving the needle
CORRECTION: In the July 20-26 edition of my weekly column, the statement “Catholic Social Services … refused to consider a gay couple for fostering,...
Tyranny of the minority
We in Philadelphia live in a relatively progressive bubble compared with what’s happening in the vast majority of the country, where LGBTQ Americans are...
Bill Schuette
A couple of columns ago, I wrote about sitting in a chemo ward getting poison pumped into my body, worried that my insurance was...
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...
Star Parker
We may be well into July, but the anti-gay panic that comes to a boil in June as a result of gays having done...
Banning conversion therapy
This week Delaware Gov. John Carney signed into law a statewide bill banning conversion “therapy.” Not only is this cruel practice to attempt to...
Trump voters
I recently heard a self-proclaimed Democrat who voted for Trump say he didn’t like Hillary. “Bernie would have won. We told them we wanted...
The facts of LGBT discrimination
This week, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney won a major court case that will most likely make its way to the Supreme Court and affects...
A clear-cut case
A federal judge has ruled against a Catholic agency that refuses to accept LGBT couples as foster parents. The city announced in May 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...
Gay immigrant helps found America
Readers here know my passion for LGBT history and my almost-decade-long research and writing on my favorite gay historical character — and I do...
Justice for Nizah is justice for all
One of the many advocates who began pushing for answers in the immediate aftermath of the 2002 homicide of Nizah Morris was then-Police Inspector...
Milo Yiannopoulos
Milo Yiannopoulos is not a good person. But then, who cares, right? It’s not like he gives a shit about being a good person....
I’m not crazy
The World Health Organization is dropping transgender identities from its list of mental disorders in its newest edition of the International Statistical Classification of...
We will not fail you
We at PGN grieve the murder of five journalists in Annapolis last week. And we applaud the determination of the staff of the Capital...
Funding discrimination
The city has resumed contracting with Bethany Christian Services for foster-care and adoption services after the agency agreed to comply with local law and...
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
There’s been a lot of talk about “civility” lately, which was triggered by the owner of a restaurant asking a woman who is known...
Jeff Sessions
Out of the blue the other day, my 8-year-old son asked me, “What would you do to get me back?” “What do you mean?”...
What it’s like to be a gay veteran in Philly
I was a gung-ho Marine living in Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii just four years ago. Life seemed bleak at times, even on one of...
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