Creep of the Week: Homophobia and Transphobia
Congratulations to Gavin Grimm. If you don’t know that name, you should, especially if you give a damn about transgender rights and the attack...
Citizen’s diplomacy in Palestine
In the past I’ve written about the numerous international journalists and activists who have been brought to Philadelphia Gay News offices as part of...
Keep up the Pride energy
For those of us in LGBTQ media, the end of June often comes with a huge sigh of relief. Even though we expect it...
Pride is about visibility
About a month ago, Channel 6 ABC’s out meteorologist Adam Joseph contacted me about the station’s plans for its employee Pride day event and...
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...
Musing on loss
I am no stranger to trans mortality.
When I got my first taste of community on the early trans internet, one of my friends and...
The Long Fight of Gavin Grimm
Gavin Grimm won.
As Pride month draws to a close, the battle of one lone trans man to use the restroom that corresponds with his...
The Case for Free Speech
As cries of “cancel culture” regularly resound from various quarters, the importance of free speech — actual legally protected speech — has become ever...
What we can learn from ACT UP
In Sarah Schulman’s new book, “Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993,” she says about ACT UP members:...
Thank you Gov. Wolf; Now it’s the community’s turn to act
Last week Governor Wolf held a news conference in Harrisburg with a herd of Democratic State lawmakers to announce that they were reintroducing the...
Creep of the Week: Tony Perkins
Onslaught is the name of a thrash metal band from the U.K. Rainbow is the name of a hard rock band once fronted by...
The Fairness Act is needed, but a shift in strategy is needed more
This week, Governor Tom Wolf and a group of Pa. Democratic lawmakers and LGBTQ allies held a press conference to announce the re-introduction of...
Telling the Stories of Our Lives
On June 12, the ceremony for the Society of Professional Journalists 2020 Sigma Delta Chi Awards was held. It was virtual again this year...
Creep of the Week: Tony Perkins
Aside from women daring to make their own reproductive decisions, there’s nothing right-wing conservatives hate more than Pride Month. The “rainbow deluge,” as the...
Pride then, pride now
When we celebrate Pride, we are celebrating the anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, a seminal moment in LGBTQ history. The Stonewall Inn was, at...
From Stonewall to the White House
For me, Pride month is always full of surprises ever since I was a part of that very first New York Pride back in...
Creep of the Week: Gigi Gaskins
I remember it like it was yesterday: Trump supporters flying flags that said, “Fuck your feelings,” wearing T-shirts that said “Suck it up, Buttercup”...
Ways to show pride without Pride
Even though the Philly Pride Festival has been rescheduled for September, that’s no reason not to celebrate and still show your LGBTQ colors this...
Pride Month is in June, but Pride is every day
Every June is an emotional time for me. You might think of me as the publisher of this newspaper, as a businessman, but that’s...
What Killed Mikayla Miller?
Mikayla Miller didn’t live to see Pride.
The 16-year-old gender nonconforming Black lesbian was found on April 18 tied to a tree in the woods...
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