Best of the best
Last week, PGN celebrated its fourth-annual Best of LGBT Philly awards, where our readers recognized the best of the best among community leaders, nonprofits...
State of the (Non-)Union
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union Address — and it was about as problematic as you could imagine....
Creep of the Week: Dr. Michael Brown
My 6-year-old son has two moms. For Mothers’ Day (and, yes, that’s where we put the apostrophe), he gave both my wife (a.k.a. “Mommy”)...
Number 19
Wow. Let’s all just take a breather ... And go. On May 20, 2014, Pennsylvania became the 19th state...
Humbled but not
By far, the last two weeks have been an incredible time for us here at PGN and for me personally. Last week...
Creep of the Week: Peter LaBarbera
Remember that old saying about trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results being the definition of insanity? Well, if that...
Blame the dead pope?
Pope Benedict XVI blames Pope John Paul II for the cover-up of abusive priests. At least that was one of just four...
Community gathers, violence continues
This weekend held two events crucial to the local and regional LGBTQ community: OutFest and Philly Trans March. With different missions and intentions, both...
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...
Barring bullying in our schools
The Safe Schools Improvement Act, introduced this week in the U. S. House of Representatives, seeks to ensure that students, including LGBT youth,...
SCOTUS serendipity
Breaking news and special issues are probably the two biggest headaches for the PGN staff. This past week, we had a lot of both...
Equality across the board
This past Tuesday marked Equal Pay Day — where people in all corners of the nation called for equality in the workplace for women....
Mayor Pete will make a great Secretary of Transportation
In my October Q & A with candidate Joe Biden, I asked whether he would put LGBT people in his cabinet. His answer was...
We Must Do More Than March
This past Sunday in Philadephia, hundreds of people attended the Queer March for Black Lives. They were led by those holding a banner with...
Ukraine’s lesson for America
“At Babi Yar there are no monuments,” wrote poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko in 1961, “only the wall of the ravine rising like a tombstone.” If...
Surveying the landscape
PGN has long been committed to providing the local LGBT community the news it needs — but also the news it wants. In that...
Rainbow Railroad working to help LGBT Afghans flee country
When the Taliban were in control of parts of Afghanistan beginning in the late 1990’s, they made clear that the strictly followed Sharia Law,...
Protecting earned sick days
As we know well in the LGBT community, our state legislature doesn’t do anything quickly. We’ve been fighting for years to pass statewide nondiscrimination...
The women who would be president
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) stood outside in a blizzard on Feb. 10 and declared her candidacy for president of the United States, becoming the...
Creep of the Week: Terry Jones
Hey, are you pissed that President Obama has been all nice-nice with the gays lately? Then you should totally set him on fire. ...
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