Holiday wishes
Carol: That my son and daughter-in-law give me a grandchild. Dave: To spend more time getting to know the new man...
It’s not just Georgia — it’s Pennsylvania too
On March 25, Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed major election legislation into law. Kemp did so in a locked room surrounded by white...
Civil discourse
In the local LGBT community, there are several longstanding rifts and some recent divisions. So-and-so doesn’t talk to so-and-so, this one doesn’t...
PA Pride
Pennsylvania hasn’t given its progressive citizens much to be proud of as of late. Our legislature just passed a budget stripped...
Creep of the Week: Tony Perkins
And so it was that the Defense of Marriage Act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and Proposition 8 was dead in California....
Creep of the Week: Shane Vaughn
There are two things I need to say right up front. One, getting a COVID-19 vaccine is a safe and effective way to prevent...
Creep of the Week: North Carolina Republican Party
As 2016 is now history, there is perhaps no better poster child for how totally terrible last year was politically than North Carolina. ...
Give Mazzoni Center’s new CEO a chance
This week, Mazzoni Center announced Lydia Gonzalez Sciarrino as its new CEO. With Mazzoni Center’s annual budget of $16.5 million and...
Donald Trump (yes, again)
As part of the liberal media, I have been working night and day to rig this election for Hillary Clinton and I am...
Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is important to LGBTQ folks for a variety of reasons. During the civil rights movement, he used civil disobedience...
Creep of the Week: Matt Barber
America is a weird place. On the one hand, we have court after court giving the legal middle finger to antigay-marriage laws...
Creep of the Week: John McCormack
On Oct. 10, the day before National Coming Out Day, the Democrats running for president convened for a town hall on the topic of...
The two things transgender people aren’t
Recently, a Dutchman named Emile Ratelband made a bold proclamation: He wanted to legally change his age. At age 69, he claimed that...
Is this the beginning of an LGBT backlash?
There’s a word you need to know: Backlash. Recently, we have seen an uptick in antigay hate crimes, but you might...
Creep of the Week: David Usher
Think back to all of the times you’ve heard straight women say things like, “Ugh, I wish I could be a lesbian, it would...
Showdown in D.C.
LGBTs and allies will gather at vigils around the nation later this month to herald in one of the most momentous occasions in the...
Your PGN
Most likely, if you’re a regular reader of PGN, as you’re looking through the pages of this paper today you haven’t noticed any changes....
Creep of the Week: Cardinal Timothy Dolan
What’s more powerful, Hollywood and Washington, D. C., or God? If you don’t believe in God, that’s easy: Hollywood and D.C.,...
Bad breaks and missed reunions
The worse break of my life, literally. Last Saturday, we had a new air-conditioning unit installed on the office rooftop. It was...
A quick look at the rest of the world
It seems there are only two subjects making the media rounds right now: COVID-19 and the election. You most likely have heard enough about...
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