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...
Sims has failed his stakeholders and the LGBTQ Community
I return to this publication writing this op-ed, nine years after my last article, now reflecting on Brian Sims' recent announcement of his candidacy...
An Open letter to Mayor Nutter
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Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
When the Trump era is written about in history books — assuming we survive that long — if there are any heroes in this...
Puppy love
With all the politics in the air, I think it’s time to change the subject and bring some warmth back to a civil society....
Straight politicians must stop appropriating LGBTQ activism
The HRC Equality Town Hall was an historic event: Nine Democratic candidates showed up to talk about their commitment to LGBTQ rights and explain...
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”...
White teeth and presidential invitations
“Law & Order,” the TV series in all its incarnations, is an enjoyable break from reality. Well done, but there is a...
Recognition in abundance
As publisher, let me state my obvious pride in the PGN staff, since they write for the most professionally produced newspaper for the LGBT...
Thanking our supporters
No doubt by now you’ve seen or heard about the proposed LGBT-friendly, affordable senior housing project that I’ve been involved with. And...
Family Research Council
Ah, yes. The fabled “Gay Agenda.” Having invested so much in the fight against it, anti-gay groups will leap at anything that...
A Jewish Christmas tale
When I was young, about 11, Jewish kids didn’t acknowledge Christmas as anything other than just another day, but we appreciated that it meant...
The Power of Our Votes
Progressives won the Philadelphia primary. The whole country was watching Philadelphia to see how the city would vote in the crucial DA’s race. This...
Targeting vulnerable transgender kids? A cruel and dangerous waste of time
By John L. Micek
The other day, the host of a television public affairs show asked me what I thought a group of Republican lawmakers...
The long arc of equal-rights history
In the years after the Civil War and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment that freed slaves, Congress debated the status of the black...
Sick day regrouping
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Gen Z’s ageism, Pride, and their Thongs
I came across an article published in The Atlantic by Spencer Kornhaber, who covers pop culture for the magazine. In June he took on...
Sean Hannity
By now you’ve heard of Adrian Peterson, the professional footballer charged with child abuse. The case has ignited a national debate about spanking and...
Stating the obvious
Last month, President Barack Obama ascended to the speaker’s rostrum in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to deliver the 2015...
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