A bipartisan push for visibility
To close out Pride month, three Congress members introduced a bipartisan, nonbinding resolution this week to highlight the economic firepower LGBT business owners bring...
Creep of the week: Marco Rubio (again!)
There is a certain bench that presidential contenders long to fill. It’s the Holy Grail of appointments: the U.S. Supreme Court. ...
Evolution of LGBT press
There’s a question that pops up in any interview I give. It goes something like this: “What is the state of the...
A wolf in sheep’s clothing
Over the years, PGN has reported on many of the University of Pennsylvania’s LGBTQ initiatives. We have an arts feature this week about the...
No excuses
Last week, in yet another chapter of “Can the president be any worse?” we were greeted with the same hateful rhetoric that President Donald...
Hail President Pence
As we go to press on Wednesday evening, Human Rights Campaign is sending out alerts asking for money to help them fight the so-called...
The Trans Griot has passed
On the 5th of October, Monica Roberts passed away at home. She was a trans journalist, probably best known for her blog, TransGriot. She...
Creep of the Week: Jerry Falwell Jr.
“Pull your pants up.” How many times have we heard this admonishment directed at young Black men? Even Barack Obama, in a 2008 interview...
Standing up to violence
To the editor: There has been a cluster of gay bashings recently. This morning, I was sent a picture of...
Pushback against the pushback
When the nation won marriage equality last year, most pundits predicted that there would be pushback. With a hotly debated social issue making such...
Should Brian Sims resign?
I asked this question on my personal Facebook page, and the results were interesting. An overwhelming number of people said that Rep. Brian...
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...
New releases “Love, Simon,” “Instinct” breaking barriers
Two events this week of great magnitude to the LGBT community were just seen as daily occurrences. But I assure you, they were not. ...
Equality across the board
This past Tuesday marked Equal Pay Day — where people in all corners of the nation called for equality in the workplace for women....
Life during germ time
Some people think that being transgender is a mere choice, just a bunch of people who — apologies to my non-trans women siblings —...
Raw deal
It was announced as a done deal. After years of wrangling, two lawsuits, backroom deals and broached agreements, the city and the...
Discrimination’s due
A new study conducted by Ann P. Haas and Philip L. Rodgers of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and Jody L....
Newspapers, bankruptcy and the economy
In trying to halt the country’s financial tailspin last week, President Obama signed the $787-billion stimulus bill. This week, he addressed Congress,...
Creep of the Week: Kim Haynes
Remember back in the day when black people couldn’t swim in public pools because white people didn’t want to catch being black? Luckily...
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