Creep of the Week: Alan Keyes
You know how sometimes you haven’t heard from somebody in a while and you just kind of assume that they’ve crawled under a rock...
What our LGBTQ Black seniors are facing today
February is Black History Month and this issue of PGN is senior- and elder- focused. Considering we’ve arrived in the year 2020, many of...
The defeat of DOMA: Does it mean the end of marriage inequality in U.S....
On June 26, the U. S. Supreme Court held that the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, is unconstitutional. Writing for the majority,...
What is the PGN staff proud of this year?
Carol: I’m very proud to have a husband who is always there for me. He’s been my rock throughout my recovery from my recent...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
Aww, so sweet. Donald Trump thinks gay people are great. Mind you, not so great that they should be allowed to...
A battle won, but the war rages on
Gavin Grimm, at long last, has won his case.
When Grimm was in his second year at Gloucester High School in Virginia, he came out...
Creep of the Week: Charles Van Zant
It used to be that if you wanted to make a right-wing conservative freak out, all you had to do was show them a...
Moving the needle
CORRECTION: In the July 20-26 edition of my weekly column, the statement “Catholic Social Services … refused to consider a gay couple for fostering,...
Life after 55: It does get better
Although the media campaign targets LGBT youth, “It Gets Better” also holds true for LGBT elders. Whether related to health, housing, social...
Creep of the Week—Mat Staver
Poet Langston Hughes. Russian composer Peter Tchaikovsky. Civil-rights activist Bayard Rustin. Mathematician and “Father of Computer Science” Alan Turing. Writer and journalist...
Talking points
This week, President Obama gave two speeches that stirred the nation. The first, to students on the first day of school, raised...
When silence betrays us
Can we talk? Even — or especially — with a thorny subject in which we are bound to give and receive offense? If not,...
Census numbers = voting power
The recently released census figures for same-sex couples in Philadelphia, published in last week’s PGN, make a major statement — and prove why Sherrie...
Linda Harvey
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network’s annual Day of Silence is April 12, and you know what that means: Silence. Well, sort of....
Sam Brownback
After an awful seven-year stretch, state employees in Kansas have finally been granted equality with the rest of the Kansas workforce. ...
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
There’s been a lot of talk about “civility” lately, which was triggered by the owner of a restaurant asking a woman who is known...
Creep of the Week: Milo Yiannopoulos
First Twitter came for Milo Yiannopoulos, and I did not speak out because I was not a racist. Then Facebook came for Milo Yiannopoulos,...
Working to end LGBT economic discrimination
The next wave in our struggle for equality might surprise you: economic equality. After all, credit is what makes the American financial system work.
Let’s...
When money talks
In journalism school, students learn that there are two sides to every story. But the real question is, are there two equal sides? This...
When you know better, you do better in the fight to end the AIDS...
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