Letter to the Editor
Editor: I am writing in response to the recent introduction of HB 879 by Rep. Mike O’Brien. Over the last...
Pursuing equality abroad
This week, the United Nations Human Rights Council issued a statement titled “Ending Acts of Violence and Related Human Rights Violations Based on Sexual...
We lost Prop. 8 in 1978
We lost the Proposition 8 decision due to California property taxes and what has led to the state’s current financial problems. The...
The godfather of LGBT marriage equality
Everyone is predicting how the U. S. Supreme Court will rule on marriage equality. Let me give you my prediction. We already...
Creep of the Week: American Family Association
Well, it’s June, which means it’s officially Gay Pride Month. And I do mean official. President Obama declared it himself, which I...
Quiet advocacy
Over the past week, the LGBT community witnessed several key events: Houston swore in a lesbian mayor — her partner at her side; same-sex...
Putting Philly’s LGBT community on the map
This week, our community is hosting not one but two national LGBT conventions/events. It’s a tribute to our community, and especially our...
‘Just another thousand feet to go’
Right now, the LGBT equality movement is filled with conflicting emotions, intense passions and nervous energy — just like the rest of the country....
Tim Dunkin
Conservative commentator Tim Dunkin is raging mad that “sodomites” are allowed to adopt children, and he’s not going to take it any more! ...
Jeff Sessions
We have an executive branch bursting at the seams with corruption. We have a man-baby tyrant as “president,” likely installed by Russia. We have...
Changes to LGBT Dems club
Liberty City LGBT Democratic Club was founded in fall 1994 and ever since has served as the only lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Democratic...
Creep of the Week: Tim Ravndal
You know what’s totally hilarious? Matthew Shepard jokes. You know, the 21-year-old guy who, in 1998, was brutally beaten and then hung...
Creep of the Week: Tony Perkins
And so it was that the Defense of Marriage Act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and Proposition 8 was dead in California....
Get your Pride started
Well, it’s officially here: Pride Month. Sure, there are some places that celebrate Pride in other months (yes, Rehoboth, we’re talking about...
On QFest and Tribeca
The recent news that Philadelphia’s QFest, arguably the highlight of my moviegoing summer, has been postponed has me crestfallen. For almost 20...
Pope Francis: Chaput to heterosexuals, no marriage?
Your Holiness: OK, I know this is the third open letter I’ve written to you, but your archbishop here in Philadelphia just is not...
Justice for Nizah is justice for all
One of the many advocates who began pushing for answers in the immediate aftermath of the 2002 homicide of Nizah Morris was then-Police Inspector...
Creep of the Week: Omar Mateen
No one on an FBI watch list should be able to easily buy a gun. No one should be allowed to buy a gun...
40 years strong
This is a very special week here at PGN. On Jan. 3, we marked the 40th anniversary of the first issue...
Black Lives Matter and the LGBT community
In June, I had the pleasure of addressing the staff of the Democratic National Convention during a Gay Pride luncheon. As all speaking gigs...
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