Transmissions: Never forgotten
Summer wanes, and the days get shorter. Blue skies give way to gray skies and the occasional rain shower. A slight chill...
Benefits of GSAs
In a new study this week, researchers found that gay-straight alliances had a positive effect on the mental health and well-being of LGBT youth...
Creep of the Week: Jerry Cox
Newsflash: Homosexuality and pedophilia are not the same things. Equating the two makes as much sense as equating adopting a pet kitty...
Michigan’s Republican state senators
Everyone knows that bullying is wrong. It is awful to be bullied and a person who is a bully isn’t exactly a...
This is unacceptable
This week, one story preempted the news cycle in Philadelphia, permeating into the national media: the Penn State sex-abuse scandal. Last...
Saying farewell to a pre-Stonewall pioneer
Returning from Washington, D. C. for Frank Kameny’s viewing left me in an angered state and it had me totally at a loss....
Historians need to step up to the plate
Was President Lincoln a gay man? Were President Buchanan and Francis King partners? Can we prove that lesbians and trans people fought in the...
Endorsements
For mayor, there really is no contest here — neither in the race itself nor who we as a community should support. ...
Creep of the Week: Linda Wall:
Once upon a time there was a lesbian gym teacher (shocking, I know). More specifically, that time was the early 1970s and...
Creep of the Week: Linda Harvey:
Your son just fell off the monkey bars, shattering a kneecap and busting out some teeth. Your kid is screaming in pain,...
Evolution of AIDS care
Since the advent of AIDS 30 years ago, a parallel health-care system has evolved for people with HIV/AIDS. For the younger...
Pa.’s (vice) presidential predictions
Since I’ve been on a successful streak with my predictions of late, let me make a few more. There is an...
Creep of the Week: John Boehner
The Defense of Marriage Act makes John Boehner weep. Not because of how sadistically cruel it is to gays and lesbians, nor...
What’s marriage got to do with it?
This week, PGN is showcasing same-sex wedding options in our Arts and Culture section, in response to the growing number of neighboring states that...
Isolating hatemongers
Last weekend I was visiting my family in the Philly area, and decided to attend OutFest while I was in town. As...
Weekend of looking back, looking forward
The Rev. Jeffrey Jordan of Metropolitan Community Church of Philadelphia shouts from the pulpit, “Mark Segal, here’s something historic to put in...
Another week of highs, lows
Here in the editorial department of PGN, the workweek runs from Thursday to Wednesday, when the paper goes to press. Sadly, this...
Proposition 8 legal defense team
Hey, did you hear the one about the judge who ruled against Proposition 8 in California being a homo? And how his ruling shouldn’t...
Changes to LGBT Dems club
Liberty City LGBT Democratic Club was founded in fall 1994 and ever since has served as the only lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Democratic...
Creep of the Week: Keith Ablow
Full disclosure: I do not watch “Dancing With the Stars. ” In fact, I can’t even say I’ve ever intentionally viewed it unless...
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