Finding the good in 2009
Welcome 2010, and good riddance 2009. I believe most of us feel that way. Traveling back from the Pennsylvania Society on the...
A tour of gratitude
It might sound surprising but I’m actually looking forward to 2017. This past year was one of the busiest of my...
PA Pride
Pennsylvania hasn’t given its progressive citizens much to be proud of as of late. Our legislature just passed a budget stripped...
Real Republican leadership
A group of more than 80 social and political conservatives bucked the party line this week and urged the Supreme Court to support marriage...
My non-LGBT column
Guns. We believe in the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms — but, like the First Amendment, the right of free...
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...
Letters and Feedback
To the editor: We are the Sex Worker Outreach Project (SWOP)-Philadelphia, the local chapter of SWOP USA, a movement fighting for the fundamental...
Sen. Casey and repealing DOMA
Let’s talk about all those petitions that the LGBT community delivered to Sen. Bob Casey. If you haven’t followed the story in...
An unexpected Christmas gift
This will undoubtedly be the most unusual Christmas column I’ve ever written and it has to do with a hate crime. ...
Discrimination doesn’t pay
With Trumpocalypse a few weeks away, it may be tempting to assume, rightfully so, that the new administration will be tone-deaf to progressive causes....
Waiting for history
As the Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act, I’ve heard the following a lot: “Do you...
LGBT journalism
PGN had the opportunity to accept a prestigious award from the Society of Professional Journalists last weekend, given in recognition of Tim Cwiek’s more-than...
The summer that was
Summer is typically the slowest time of the year for news at PGN. But the doldrums were nowhere to be found...
Celebrating visibility
And we’re off to the races. On Sunday, Hillary Clinton finally confirmed the announcement that has been years in the running:...
Letters
Dear Editor: As a non-Philadelphian, I read the story of yet another community nonprofit looted by its executive director (“Former COLOURS exec gets...
Keeping the dialogue open
Last week, PGN began a series about transgender sex workers, exploring these women’s lives, from the endemic discrimination they have faced to the physical...
Golden age of journalism
I’m going to take a liberty and break one of my major rules about LGBT publishing that dictates that all coverage must be about...
Bracing for the storm
Though the election is more than a month behind us and the holidays are fast approaching, politics has been the dominant topic of late....
Room for everyone
In the weeks ahead of Pride, organizers, participants and activists individually told PGN that this year, we would see more new and inclusive events....
Ally equality
Are you a homophobe if you do not support marriage equality? Non-gays who at times have been allies keep asking me that question. Let...
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