Creep of the Week: Mike Huckabee
I don’t listen to a lot of country music. In fact, since Trump’s “election,” I haven’t listened to anything other than heavy metal (it’s...
LGBT history, LGBT hipocrisy
How do you feel about an LGBT person who supports an organization whose co-founder has described gay people as being “a minority of perverts...
In response to “LGBT history, LGBT hypocrisy”
Editor: Let’s set the major confusion straight for Mr. Hamell. Obviously Mr. Hamell, who claims to be part of the LGBT community, is distorted....
Survival of the fittest
This week, the Philadelphia Inquirer ran an article headlined, “Sheriff sale ads: A bonanza for the politically connected in Philly.” The paper is the...
The fight for LGBT rights must be relentless
The Supreme Court’s decision this past summer to extend marriage rights to LGBT Americans was another step in a long and broad civil-rights struggle...
Creep of the week: Dan Forest
Did you hear the one about how North Carolina is a great place for women and girls? Because North Carolina just...
Readers weigh in with topics of choice
When I get writer’s block, I often go to my friends on Facebook to ask them what I should write about. Here are just...
Wedding-cake decision threatens all minorities
Fifty-three years ago on July 4, 1965, I marched with Barbara Giddings and Frank Kameny in the first Reminder Day demonstration at Independence Hall...
30 Rock from a different LGBT vantage point
There we were, sitting in the conference room in the NBC headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Center with a horde of NBC news executives —...
PGN welcomes international journalists
Representatives from 19 countries visited the office of the Philadelphia Gay News to see how a newspaper for the LGBT community operated in the...
Keep up the fight
The appalling white nationalist violence in Virginia earlier this month, and our president’s unbearably terrible response, set off demonstrations by racial- and social-justice activists...
Sally Kern
Mental illness is a serious, unfairly stigmatized issue in this country. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in four Americans deals...
Creep of the Week: Brian Brown
They’re baaaaaaack. The National Organization for Marriage, that is. Though, they never really went anywhere. They were just stuck in place for a while...
Creep of the Week: Rick Santorum
I have to admit, Rick Santorum has good reason not to like gay people. I mean, with the help of Dan Savage,...
Letters
Regarding “Ten years later: Robert Drake” Jan. 30-Feb. 5: I came to your Web site tonight via my Facebook account. On...
Faith, science and love counter antigay lies and prejudice
On Nov. 5, I will gather with hundreds of human-rights activists at Love Park to send a clear message to LGBTQ young...
Creep of the week: Les Kinsolving
One of the antigay right’s favorite arguments is that the gays are actually the intolerant ones. It’s a pretty laughable premise, actually....
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...
The final years
It’s not the most pleasant question to think about, but at some point it must be addressed: How do you want to spend your...
Research and reality
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