editorial
The universality of tragedy
Local and national headlines were dominated in the last week by news of the deadly building collapse at 22nd and Market streets, which killed six people and injured more than a dozen. The tragic in...
Jun 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Need for Pride
With the dramatically building support for LGBT issues in the past few years, some community members have questioned the necessity of Pride celebrations, promulgating the notion that, as the commun...
Jun 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
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Being other in Philly
PGN was invited to participate in a panel discussion Tuesday evening entitled “Being Other in Philly,” an event that produced fruitful, meaningful conversation that pointed to the need for vast coo...
May 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fighting back on all fronts
The recent wave of antigay violence in New York City touched Philadelphia this week with an attack on a former resident. While all of the recent incidents appear isolated, each instance of violence...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
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Making the LGBT vote count
Tuesday is not a presidential election, nor a gubernatorial election nor a mayoral election. Often the less-than-sexy Philadelphia elections may go unnoticed by a great majority of the city. But, f...
May 16, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Tuesday that was
PGN heads to the printer each Wednesday, so Tuesdays are usually quite a hectic day for our editorial staff, as we’re scrambling to put final touches on stories, photos, captions and layouts. Howev...
May 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
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Congrats to Collins
LGBT history and sports history were both made this week when NBA Washington Wizards center Jason Collins became the first openly gay actively playing member of one of the four major American profe...
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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Finding the humanity
Last week’s tragic attacks on the Boston Marathon, which left a young child and two others dead and scores with injuries that will haunt them the rest of their lives, also left the rest of the coun...
Apr 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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On getting gay-married
As the editor and a former staff writer at PGN, I have been writing about marriage equality for five-and-a-half years. From the nationwide rallying in the streets after the passage of Proposition 8...
Apr 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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Santorum’s marriage musings
Rick Santorum just doesn’t know when to stop. The former senator from Pennsylvania was voted out of office several years ago, largely thanks to an LGBT and ally mobilization in response to his ant...
Apr 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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