Banning conversion therapy
This week Delaware Gov. John Carney signed into law a statewide bill banning conversion “therapy.” Not only is this cruel practice to attempt to...
My Stonewall story
It had never been asked of me like that before and came as a complete surprise. I was out doing business at...
Creep of the Week: Rick Santorum
Say what you want about Republicans, but they sure do keep us in suspense about how high the homophobic ceiling is inside of their...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
Great news, everybody! Donald Trump is not planning to rescind President Obama’s 2014 executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT people. I...
Next on the agenda: nondiscrimination
According to a press release from The Williams Institute regarding the 2010 Census, the 10 states where same-sex couples comprise the largest portion of...
Entering the home stretch
We are less than 90 days away from opening the new LGBT-friendly affordable senior apartments here in Philadelphia. But don’t cheer for...
My LGBT opinions aren’t so simple to come by lately
When the deadline for this column loomed, I panicked. I have absolutely no clear opinions about anything this week, aside from my...
Seeking inclusive Catholicism
Last month, a local college declined to renew the adjunct contract for a gay priest after administrators learned about his sexual orientation. ...
Keeping Trump in check
In our current political climate, progressives have been grabbing onto every crumb of good news like a life raft. This week, the LGBT community...
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...
‘A lot of my friends are being killed’
At a visit to an Obama campaign field office in Sarasota, Fla. , the vice president singled out a woman who, it was...
Queering the campus
At colleges across the region this week, boxes are being unpacked, families are being hugged and dorm doors are being closed as thousands of...
VDay in PA
To the Editor: On Thursday greeting-card stores, pharmacies and candy shops all over Pennsylvania were swarmed with last-minute shoppers snapping up candy and...
Pride Month silence
For the first time in many years, Pride Month passed without a mention by the president of the United States. The...
Building a trans-affirming mental-health program
In the last 10 years, feminist and women’s spaces have grappled with how their histories and missions connect with transgender communities and how they...
Creep of the Week: Tamara Scott
Bravo to Michele Bachmann for her newly appointed Iowa co-chair Tamara Scott, a woman who will no doubt help woo antigay Iowans to Bachmann’s...
Fear and love
It has been said only two true emotions exist: fear and love — an adage that has been illustrated many times in the last...
Let freedom ring
Philadelphia is an interesting place around Independence Day. Apart from Hoagiefest mania, our city this week is celebrating our status as...
Community in flux
The shifts in our local LGBT community are somewhat of a microcosm of what’s happening on a national level right now. ...
The Need for Pride
With the dramatically building support for LGBT issues in the past few years, some community members have questioned the necessity of Pride celebrations, promulgating...
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