Letters and Feedback
Editor: Mark, everything you said in your thank-you letter about the newspaper awards and your achievements is true. You did guide...
Tipping point
The U.S. Supreme Court this week took the next step towards national marriage equality. Oral arguments were held Tuesday before the Supreme Court...
On Black Trans lives, JK Rowling and making the right choice.
Right now, we may be living through the most impactful time for trans and nonbinary people, and the choices we make now may shape...
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...
Marriage matters
Pennsylvania is now at the center of the state-by-state struggle for marriage equality in the United States. As the historic U.S. Supreme...
The desperate quest to keep children ignorant
I would like to claim that I turned gay when I developed a crush on LeVar Burton while watching “Reading Rainbow” as a child....
Where was Philly’s Stonewall 50 coverage?
“Why weren’t the events of Stonewall’s 50th anniversary covered by the Inquirer?” That’s the question I’ve been asked after a whirlwind month that had...
Gun violence is literally killing us
America was still reeling from the mass femicide in Atlanta last week that killed seven women, six of them Asian, when the Boulder shooting...
Kane v. Corbett
While the rest of the state has been buzzing about movement on marriage equality in Pennsylvania, the one man who has a tremendous stake...
Why we have to talk about the GOP
It’s a conundrum. Democrats, progressives and even the center left media don’t want to give Marjorie Taylor Greene a scintilla more oxygen to spew...
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...
What is your holiday wish?
Angela: My Christmas wish is to never have a school shooting again in the world and to end violence in our schools. ...
Catholic conundrum
Pope Francis last week made another incremental step forward for LGBT progress in the Catholic Church — but that’s not to say that all...
New releases “Love, Simon,” “Instinct” breaking barriers
Two events this week of great magnitude to the LGBT community were just seen as daily occurrences. But I assure you, they were not. ...
Testing, one, two, three, testing …
June 27 marks the 16th annual National HIV Testing Day. If you haven’t been tested in the past six months to a...
Person of the Year: Shocked, appalled
Editor: I am writing to comment on PGN’s front-page story and picture of the Person of the Year. I am shocked, appalled...
An activist’s memory lane
In recent months, it has occurred to me that a little research on my past was in order for a project that has occupied...
Brian Sims rebuffed by state Democratic leaders and LGBT community leaders
Brian Sims has had a really bad few weeks. His campaign and support in Pennsylvania is in free fall, his reputation is suffering as...
Letters and Feedback
I wanted to make a quick note in reference to the article about the conference at Arcadia University (“Arcadia to host safe-schools discussion,” March...
Power of giving
Tuesday marked two important occasions for our community, and their confluence was significant. The first of December always serves to commemorate...
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