Natalie Hope McDonald
Natalie Hope McDonald is a writer and editor based in Philadelphia. You can reach her at www.nataliehopemcdonald.com and on Twitter @NatalieMcD.
March 16, 2017
LGBT
Gay, trans and homeless: Inside Philly’s LGBTQ Home for Hope
It’s a Thursday night on North Hutchinson Street, a few blocks from a Save-A-Lot and Kicks USA, where kids are laughing and fooling around outside on an unusually warm night. The neighborhood, a mix of shopping plazas and burnt out buildings, shows signs of decay along with promising new commerce. Two cats streak down the street, one dodges under a car and another climbs a fence. A few men sit on a nearby porch drinking from paper bags. A couple mingles close in the shadows of a streetlight, their faces obscured after dark.March 15, 2017
Opinion
Making civics great again: new program wants to make Philly smarter about government
About two-dozen people filed into the basement of the Berean Presbyterian Church on North Broad Street last Saturday. Assembled at big round tables and on folding chairs between two low-hanging basketball nets (I half expected a lecture on hygiene – it felt like I was back in junior high again) the small crowd ranged from Temple students in oversized sweats to middle-aged women wrapped in warm coats to a couple with their fussy toddler. We came from all walks of life and parts of the city for the first Civic Saturdays, a free new public program created by Malcolm Kenyatta of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, to explore the practical aspects and history of American government.March 3, 2017
LGBT
Philly Pride adviser takes heat over 'racist and misogynist' Facebook posts
Last week, a post on the Facebook group “Philly Queer Exchange” ignited a heated discussion among the city’s LGBT community. It said, “uh…the senior advisor to Philly Pride is an ardent Trump supporter, and his facebook (sic) is public. EDIT: What now?”February 13, 2017
LGBT
Exclusive: Nellie Fitzpatrick tells why she was forced out at Philly LGBT office
Less than 24 hours before she officially stepped down as the director of the city's Office of LGBT Affairs, Nellie Fitzpatrick had coffee at a busy café on East Passyunk Avenue. The goal? To sort through fact from fiction, and to talk frankly about criticisms that have dogged this former assistant district attorney since becoming the big LGBT cheese at City Hall two years ago.January 30, 2017
Opinion
Philly should suspend Gay Pride this year
It didn’t take long for gay activists to start organizing what promises to be the largest LGBT march on Washington D.C. in our nation’s history.December 8, 2016
Education
New Hope-Solebury schools official apologizes for Facebook post
On Monday night, Douglas McDonough, a member of the New Hope-Solebury School Board, apologized for a recent Facebook post during an organizational meeting on Monday night. The post – since deleted – infuriated many community members who showed up at the meeting asking for McDonough’s resignation.November 8, 2016
2016 Election
Latino voters allege intimidation at the polls in Tacony
When Juan “Johnny” Rivera showed up to cast his vote on Tuesday at the Webster Little School on Frankford Avenue, the same polling place he’s been voting for the past 12 years, thing got ugly fast.November 3, 2016
Exclusive
EXCLUSIVE: iCandy owner breaks silence on video that launched racial firestorm in the Gayborhood
Darryl DePiano – at 51, out and married to a much younger man – is facing perhaps the most challenging test since coming to terms with his sexuality a decade ago. Two months ago, a video surfaced of the iCandy nightclub owner using the n-word– and tensions exploded in the Gayborhood. He sat down for an exclusive interview with PhillyVoice.October 28, 2016
LGBT
The question reverberating in the Gayborhood: What's next?
The same week the Philadelphia opened a formal investigation on allegations of racism in the Gayborhood, the nightclub at the center of the controversy is empty.October 26, 2016
LGBTQ
Crowd jams hearing full of allegations about racism in Philadelphia's LGBT community
An overflow crowd jammed a Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations (PCHR) hearing on Tuesday night to level more complaints about racism and discrimination at white-owned gay bars in the Gayborhood. Nearly 30 different speakers, most black or Latino, delivered passionate testimonials about experiencing racism in the form of dress code and ID policies, an air of "white privilege" and a bar owner who uses the n-word.Just In
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