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Letters
Pride successes, appreciations To the Philadelphia LGBT community: Tradition dictates that we make a disclosure to you concerning the results of our...
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...
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...
Taking stock of our community
Gay Pride Month, every June, seems to be a good time to take stock of where we are as a community. After...
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...
Pastor Martin Ssempa
There are a lot of arguments against gay rights out there, some crazier than others. But pastor Martin Ssempa, the chairman of...
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...
Why black gays should support marriage equality
The subject of marriage equality is not a popular one in the black LGBT/same-gender loving community. Often, black gays who oppose marriage...
Pride and new beginnings
Chris Bartlett was introduced as the new executive director of the William Way LGBT Community Center at its annual Building Bash last Saturday. ...
Weiss brothers defended
Editor: I am dismayed the PGN has yet to repudiate the vicious comments posted on your website following your January articles about the...
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...
Creep of the Week: Bryan Fischer
You don’t have to be a World War II history buff to know how terrible the Holocaust was for homosexuals. Especially since...
Honoring LGBT ‘DADT’ heroes
Is Lt. Dan Choi an LGBT “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” hero? Yes, but a better question might be: Does GetEQUAL, the organization...
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,...
Tim Pawlenty
If there’s one thing gays and lesbians love, it’s a good “political game,” especially if that game involves a partner dying. ...
Our four-legged children
This past Sunday, our Boston terrier Sadie passed away. Many of the condolences we received contained the phrase “four-legged child.” That really...
Election headache
Elections are always headache-inducing here in the editorial department of PGN. There is the stress of will the candidates respond to us,...
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