Bryan Fischer
While scrolling through my Twitter feed, I stumbled upon a photo of Jonathan Van Ness walking hand in hand with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez through Capitol...
Mazzoni mess
Whether you like it or not, Mazzoni Center is the Philadelphia area’s largest LGBTQ healthcare provider, with a staff of 165 serving more than...
Creep of the Week: Anyone blaming Hurricane Sandy on gays
Gays should have seen it coming, frankly. It was only a matter of time before it happened. I’m not talking about the...
Making a real American change
Everyone in Philadelphia is as proud as peacocks with the Eagles’ win in the Super Bowl. Even President Donald Trump posted a congratulatory tweet....
The best strategy against anti-LGBTQ “religious freedom”
In this column last week, I wrote about Switzerland's successful marriage equality referendum, and how even though the U.S. has a large conservative population,...
Pie in the sky dreams are worth having
I want to share a success story with you, which started in the pages of this very newspaper. Once upon a time, I wrote...
October is LGBTQ History Month
2021 has been an historic year for the LGBTQ community in Pennsylvania. Several municipalities around the state enacted nondiscrimination ordinances, ensuring that LGBTQ residents...
Organizing during a pandemic
As each week passes, the new reality we live in becomes clearer. Even when orders restricting our movement are lifted, many of us will...
Memorial day at the (gay) Jersey Shore
I did something this past Memorial Day weekend I haven’t done in years: I spent it in Atlantic City, N. J. There’s a...
Creep of the Week: The FDA
Are straight people OK? And before you answer, just let me say: No. No, they are not.
Case in point: I just read an article...
What I learned on my European Pride tour
After speaking engagements, diplomatic LGBT Pride receptions, and meetings with LGBT activists, Parliamentarians, and Deputy Prime Ministers in U.S. embassies across Europe in the...
Fulfilling boyhood dreams
First, let me correct an earlier column, especially since it is becoming widely known. A few months ago I wrote that the...
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...
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...
Marriage, one year later
The morning of May 20, 2014, and the morning of May 20, 2015 — when this editorial is being written — are two vastly...
Remembering Gay Liberation Front’s NYU protest
This week I’ll be celebrating a birthday, and while it will be cold outside, and although we are heading into a deeper pandemic, it...
The Tyranny of the Anti-Vaxxers
On Sept. 15, just days after the nation wept through the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, this was the headline: “1 in every...
Healthcare for all
It seems as though healthcare is on everyone’s mind, with the hostile town meetings and overblown rhetoric by pundits dominating the landscape. ...
D.C. dynamics
PGN participated in the annual LGBT Media Convening last weekend in the nation’s capital, a gathering of more than 70 journalists, editors and bloggers...
Letters
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