Dem defeat
We suspect that Tuesday night for progressive Georgians was akin to how more than half of America felt on Nov. 8, 2016. ...
Creep of the Week: Julio Severo
Brazilian writer and blogger Julio Severo is super-mad that America taught Brazil to be gay. In a June 12 piece on...
Creep of the Week: Scott Lively
Happy Pride Month, everybody! June is the month when the sale of rainbow merchandise skyrockets and antigay right-wingers decry the very right of LGBTQ...
What is the PGN staff proud of this year?
Don: I’m proud of being with PGN for over 41 years, the success it’s been and how I’m doing more than ever to continue...
Pride: A historical perspective
Pride is very special to me, since I helped in the first Gay Pride march in 1970. At that time it was not a...
Letter to the Editor: Advocating for our youth this Pride Month
Editor: We must urge Philadelphians and, by extension, Pennsylvanians, to support protecting LGBTQ+ students and our rights in the educational sphere. We have unique...
Creep of the Week: Laurie Higgins
For my mom’s 63rd birthday, my sisters and I took her to Drag Queen Bingo. She won a round and ended up on stage...
The Trump effect
The negative repercussions from the election of Donald Trump have been reverberating around the world for more than six months. The Trump administration has...
Watch out, Pulitzer
Last Friday night, Jason and I were in the car going to do our weekly grocery shopping when I received the news. I looked...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump, again
As I write this, I’m taking in the news of the bombing at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. Twenty-two confirmed dead so far....
A not-so-national march
Heads up, LGBT America. Did you know that there is about to be a national Equality March for Unity and Pride in Washington, D.C.,...
Critical conversations
Both the expectations and tensions were high going into last week’s inaugural Community Conversation, held by the Mayor’s Office of LGBT Affairs. ...
Reflections from an ‘old’ reporter
I thought I’d use this space to share with you some of the fun I had while reporting in Cuba last week, and...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
As Benjamin Franklin was leaving the Constitutional Convention of 1787, somebody asked him what kind of government the U.S. was going to have. “A...
Creep of the Week: Charmaine Yoest
President Trump’s goal to fill cabinet positions only with people who are diametrically opposed to what said cabinet is supposed to do continues. This...
Sessions’ surprise
Any LGBT-related news coming out of Washington, D.C., has almost universally been negative for the past four months (has it only been four months?)....
Cuba, where LGBTQ means lesbians, gays, bi, trans, questioning: repression or openness?
As I was standing in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, looking at the giant silhouette of Che Guevara, I smiled, recalling the Che...
‘Troubling,’ indeed
It seems like a new Russian scandal crops up every other day. As of presstime, the latest (subject to change!) is the abrupt termination...
Creep of the Week: Erick Erickson
Asked by a group of high-schoolers to share his thoughts about the LGBTQ community, Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) said something stupid. ...
From Cuba, with love
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