Stopping the post-debate debacle
I love out conservative writer and TV talking head Andrew Sullivan, but his blog on the Daily Beast Tuesday regarding President Obama’s debate performance...
Join or Die
For the last couple of years, I spent a lot of time warning of the dangers to come. Now, I no longer have to....
OUTPour: Live life note by note with Sean Bennett
If you ever walked through SEPTA’s Jefferson station you may have noticed a tall, skinny African-American young man playing the violin. He’s best known...
If you build it …
It seems like a lot of people are beginning to realize how awesome Philly is — which we’ve all known for some time, of...
Silencing LGBT Pride in Egypt
Donald Trump and his fake excuse and misdirected attack on the NFL players who are kneeling for social justice have some people saying it’s...
Networking 101 (for those who hate networking)
Philadelphia is fast becoming a hot destination for conventions and conferences. Most conventions are actually more about networking and less about programming:...
Fix it
Early in the morning of Dec. 28, a 17-year-old trans woman by the name of Leelah Alcorn was struck and killed by a semi-truck...
Instead of Human Rights Campaign, let’s focus on local and statewide LGBTQ organizations
One of the people who was dragged down in former governor Andrew Cuomo’s sinking ship is former Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David. David...
Looking for justice
Last week’s PGN editorial mentioned Bayard Rustin as part of an acknowledgment of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s fight for equality.
Rustin was an out...
Creep of the Week: Alex Azar
At the time of this writing, 89,564 people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. An uninterrupted moment of silence for each person would...
We have arrived
Listen up, LGBT America. The history of your struggle for LGBT equality is about to go mainstream. Just like the struggle of the black...
Defining man
Last week, a transgender man filed an antidiscrimination lawsuit after he was fired from a drug-testing facility in New Jersey. In...
Winter 2017 Reflections
So what do we say in the aftermath of all these recent events? Will you accept this new world? Will you support him in...
Pa.’s horrible anti-transgender sports bill is horrible in dozens of other states, too
by John L. Micek
An eternity ago — or was it just last week? — a quintet of Republican lawmakers in the state House trotted...
Letters and Feedback
In response to “Pride in being pushy,” Feb. 28-March 6 Editor: I had the honor of attending the ribbon...
Your words, and mine
This is the last column of the summer, and I’ve done something that I do every so often — asked my Facebook friends what...
On excellence
“General excellence.” Upon hearing we’d won this category, my thoughts were, Just another award. Now that might sound jaded, but these days that seems...
Trump win means heightened need for HIV/AIDS activism
Since 1983, AIDS activists have demanded government attention to a deadly health problem that was ignored by President Ronald Reagan, who would not say...
Stonewall is not my legacy
One of my favorite movies is “Some Like It Hot,” starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.
It’s one of those old-time 1950s screwball...
Investing in Philly and beyond
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