Creep of the Week: Alex Jones
If you don’t know who Alex Jones is, consider yourself lucky. Picture a mentally unstable person boiling over in rage and...
Christmas Not Canceled
The headline alone is ridiculous, since Christmas has actually grown in popularity in recent years. All one has to do is look at retail...
Why we have to talk about the GOP
It’s a conundrum. Democrats, progressives and even the center left media don’t want to give Marjorie Taylor Greene a scintilla more oxygen to spew...
Emotional news roller-coasters
It seems that some weeks are more emotionally trying than others when it comes to covering the news in the LGBT community. ...
Community rifts
In Philadelphia, the LGBT community isn’t always known for its harmony. There are deep rifts that date back to decades-old affronts, real...
Moving forward
Covering Mazzoni is a prime example of the challenges of journalism. When there are many people, each with so much conviction, they often refuse...
Creep of the Week: Tony Perkins
Bill Maher had a great piece on his show recently giving Donald Trump credit for exposing the hypocrisy of the religious right. The fact...
Our beloved dog
Jason and I have a little French bulldog named Zola. She just had her 1st birthday. And, as should be expected, Jason and I...
Business bias
This week’s PGN carries a story about a lesbian couple who was refused service at a bridal-dress shop in Pennsylvania. It’s...
Telling the truth about our history
Last week there was a request in my email for an interview, but this one had an interesting twist. Here’s part of what it...
Trans tripping point
Wednesday morning’s outrageous announcement that President Donald Trump intends to close the doors of the military to transgender individuals shouldn’t have come as a...
When is a swimmer not a swimmer?
Lia Thomas is a swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a transgender woman. The latter statement is currently jeopardizing the former.
Thomas...
Cliff Notes On LGBT History
With all that’s going on in the world, hopefully you haven’t forgotten that it’s Pride month. Not sure if it resonates as much considering...
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,...
Pride and prejudice
For those following the ongoing upheaval of this year’s Philadelphia Pride grand marshals, the last week has shown a lot of divisiveness in our...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
Donald Trump is the most anti-LGBTQ president in recent history. While past presidents might very well have hated LGBTQ people more, Trump has certainly...
Letters
I was surprised to read the letter in the April 4 PGN in reference to the Creating Safe and Welcoming Schools Conference at Arcadia...
A 40-year LGBT success story
PECO, Philadelphia Electric and its national holding company, Exelon, for over 40 years has had a hands-off — if not downright homophobic — attitude...
Letters and Feedback
I recently came across the PGN Street Talk question, “Should inmates be entitled to gender-reassignment surgery?” (Oct. 5-11), and I was dismayed...
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...
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