Buy Gay in the Gayborhood
Since my last column on buying gay in the Gayborhood, we’ve dined at Bump, Vilanni, Venture Inn and More Than Just Ice Cream. ...
Trump’s ‘don’t kill the gays’ policy
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Politics, bits and pieces
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Holding our breath
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Creep of the Week: Roy Moore
As of presstime, five women have accused Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual assault against them when they were as young as 14...
Responding to the next generation
Below is an actual email I received this week via Twitter.
"Hi My name is Tracy. I am in 6th grade ... in … Iowa....
Activism free from fear
If you’ve been doing anything for a long period of time and people believe you to be somewhat knowledgeable on a particular issue, they...
Many countries still reject, torture and kill LGBT people
President Biden has stated that our foreign policy would be based on human rights which include the respect for LGBT rights. His Secretary of...
Creep of the Week: E.W. Jackson
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Awarding the search for justice
PGN learned this week that our longtime reporter Tim Cwiek was awarded a prestigious national award for his investigative reporting on the unsolved homicide...
Creep of the Week: Kim Davis
Once upon a time, when I was a teenager, I worked at a video store. One very busy night, a woman and her young...
Community support during the holidays
If you’re feeling optimistic about the holiday season, it could be because of how far we’ve come as a community. When this column began,...
Making the holidays gay
Thanks to the holidays, there’s a new way to look at climate change — which may make you scratch your head for a moment....
Love lessons
It’s easy to get discouraged in our current political climate. When the news is dominated by travel bans, bias attacks and chaos in our...
Winter 2017 Reflections
So what do we say in the aftermath of all these recent events? Will you accept this new world? Will you support him in...
The homophobia of artificial intelligence
Ran across an article in Forbes about how A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) will never be LGBT friendly. Why does it matter?
We are all now being...
People and news of 2018
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Fighting the fascist threat in America
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No excuses
Last week, in yet another chapter of “Can the president be any worse?” we were greeted with the same hateful rhetoric that President Donald...
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