editorial
Et tu, Target?
On July 27, Target Corp. chief executive Gregg Steinhafel said the company’s support of the gay community is “unwavering.” This came after the Associated Press reported on a $150,000 donation the ...
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Truthiness, or something like it
This week, the head of the Department of Agriculture, Ted Vilsack, fired a black employee after a video clip made its way around the Web of the civil servant seemingly admitting to racism. As of W...
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Awkward legal positions
There are three cases right now in which the Obama administration has to defend laws that it has vocalized opposition to: two cases challenging the Defense of Marriage Act and a case challenging t...
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Politics, pride and progress
Gay Pride events take many forms and iterations. It could be a parade and festival, it could be a five-minute march in defiance of a ban, it could be a weeklong celebration with street closures, s...
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Scouting limbo
Last week, the jury in the Boy Scouts case challenging the city of Philadelphia’s effort to evict them from a city-owned building handed down a mixed verdict, with the city prevailing on two point...
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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 year, you are overdue. There are numerous free, anonymous testing sites throughout ...
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Reflections on Pride
Perhaps this column should have come out before the Pride parade and festival, but sometimes it’s hard to be reflective while tackling PGN’s biggest issue of the year, both in size and importance....
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I kissed a girl
It’s all the rage, again: Same-sex kissing done for laughs. This week, on the MTV Movie Awards, there were two same-sex kisses. The first was between Russell Brand and Jonas Hill, stars of the n...
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Get your Pride started
Well, it’s officially here: Pride Month. Sure, there are some places that celebrate Pride in other months (yes, Rehoboth, we’re talking about you), but most Pride events in the States are in June,...
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Go read a book
So here’s the dilemma: Read a book or run around outside? The long-awaited warm days are here, prompting thoughts of bike rides, runs, softball, soccer or whatever-else-you-can-play-outside. But t...
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