Whirlwind week
As of this writing, we’re midway through the Democratic National Convention. It’s been a whirlwind of a week, full of parties and protests, hunger...
Pride and conquer
For PGN, the week before Pride — specifically Monday through Wednesday — is the single busiest week of the year: That Wednesday is the...
Coming out for the Olympics
I absolutely love the Olympics. I can vividly recall watching the games as a kid and being filled with excitement and amazement...
A racist tirade. A Nazi note. We can never speak too loudly in the...
by John L. Micek
It’s tough to decide what was dumber and more cruel about the case of the woman who shouted a racial epithet in the...
In Catholic communion
We are less than a week away from Pope Francis’ visit to Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families. Again,...
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...
Looking back and moving forward
A year happens weekly at PGN. Each week stories centering the LGBTQ community come to light, and at the end of 52 weeks, it’s...
LGBTQ athletes are starting to be heard
This week, soccer superstar and lesbian Megan Rapinoe won Sports Illustrated’s sportsperson of the year. The co-captain of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team...
Creep of the Week: One Million Moms
I’ve gone from grocery store to grocery store buying up every box of the Kellogg’s Together With Pride cereal and I have them all...
Creep of the Week: Rick Perry
You don’t have to be a political scientist to recognize that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is an ignorant prick. But I’ve got...
We still need justice for Nizah Morris
Protesters are demanding change and the defunding of police units across the nation as a result of the police killing of George Floyd. In...
Scouts: Time is taxpayers’ money
For over 25 years, the Boy Scouts of America Cradle of Liberty Council has been in violation of the city’s fair-practices ordinance barring discrimination...
Creep of the Week: Tom McClusky
Call me overly sensitive, but I always thought it was an insult to black people when Bill Clinton was called America’s “first black president....
Creep of the Week: Dave Agema
If you go to Michigan state Rep. Dave Agema’s website, you see quotes related to Michigan’s economy. It’s pretty boilerplate Republican speak:...
Ally equality
Are you a homophobe if you do not support marriage equality? Non-gays who at times have been allies keep asking me that question. Let...
Creep of the Week: Ken Harrison
I haven’t thought about Steve Bannon in a hot minute. Best minute of my life, now that I think about it.
But all good things...
Letters
Dear Editor: As a non-Philadelphian, I read the story of yet another community nonprofit looted by its executive director (“Former COLOURS exec gets...
Do Senators Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Marco Rubio support child torture?
Do the unholy trilogy of Senators — Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Marco Rubio — believe in child torture? They wrote a letter to...
Justice undone
Last week, the father of a Marine who died in combat was ordered to pay $16,510. 80 to Fred Phelps, leader of the...
MontCo mixes it up
Philly usually takes up much of the LGBT spotlight in the Keystone State, but all eyes have been on Montgomery County in the past...
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