Marriage woes
As PGN goes to press, same-sex marriage is the final issue holding up the end of the legislative session in the New York Senate,...
Starting the dialogue
Like many of you, watching the election returns Tuesday night was a shock to the system. It did not turn out the way many...
The gay part of impeachment…
There isn’t one, that we know of. Those being investigated during Trump’s impeachment inquiry are not LGBTQ, as far as we know, and most...
Creep of the Week: Republican Party
The current state of the Republican Party: 100-percent morally bankrupt. It’s not like they had a great track record before, but the party has...
Gun violence is literally killing us
America was still reeling from the mass femicide in Atlanta last week that killed seven women, six of them Asian, when the Boulder shooting...
Are taxpayers paying to pray the gay away?
Most of the world has finally begun to laugh at the idea of “praying away the gay.” That is, with the exception of Philadelphia...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
When the Trump era is written about in history books — assuming we survive that long — if there are any heroes in this...
Help shape the future of LGBTQ news
Can I ask you a favor? It’s all about what the future of Philadelphia Gay News will be. Although journalism is changing, it still...
As in a mirror
So often when people who are not transgender speak of transgender people, there is one important thing that is gotten terribly wrong, and I...
Public health must come first
Every day, we hear new numbers. One day, it is 314. The next day, it is 224. Every number is a real person —...
Awarding the search for justice
PGN learned this week that our longtime reporter Tim Cwiek was awarded a prestigious national award for his investigative reporting on the unsolved homicide...
Creep of the Week: Marjorie Taylor Greene
Pop Quiz: Which of the following are things that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene believes?
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Take care of those you love this holiday
It’s been a rough two years, or a rough ten years depending on who you ask. The holiday season brings with it the challenges...
Don’t Take The Republican Bait on SCOTUS
They did so, as CNN reported, by "lashing out at the religious liberty implications of the Supreme Court's 2015 decision that cleared the way...
Seriously, Scouts?
In its most recent court filings, the Cradle of Liberty Boy Scouts Council claimed it shouldn’t be evicted from the city-owned building it occupies...
LGBT in the Libyan revolution
Covering the fall of the Berlin Wall from East Berlin, sneaking into Cuba without government knowledge, reporting for the gay press from behind the...
Papers, Please
You don't need me to tell you how difficult and challenging these times are. We're all living through a pandemic and an economic collapse...
Another Victim
Last year, it was Kyra Cordova. Two years before that, it was Stacey Blahnik. In 2002, it was Nizah Morris. This year,...
Pride, ‘80s style
The motto of my first Pride parade was “Unity and More in ’84. ” If you think this is ancient history, I can...
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