Readers weigh in with topics of choice
When I get writer’s block, I often go to my friends on Facebook to ask them what I should write about. Here are just...
Steve King
I shall begin this week’s column with a limerick: There once was a Republican named Steve who was racist like you wouldn’t believe but...
Perhaps an Island of Misfit Gays is the answer
PGN has traditionally focused its coverage on local news, leaving the more national and international reaching stories to other newspapers. Sometimes, however, there are...
Pie in the sky dreams are worth having
I want to share a success story with you, which started in the pages of this very newspaper. Once upon a time, I wrote...
Everybody is a little bit racist, homophobic, prejudiced
Monday is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, first observed as an official federal holiday in 1986. While most of you will be enjoying a...
Stedfast Baptist Church
Welcome to this episode of “Christian Hypocrisy: Anti-Gay Christian Edition.” It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these, so let’s start off...
It’s Time for Safe Injection Sites
Among the worst and most consequential policy decisions we’ve ever made as a nation was choosing to treat drug addiction as a crime....
The spectrum of oppression
Coming out is personal to each of us, so is how we recognize and understand our oppression. Each of us has a moment that...
MassResistance
Just about all LGBTQ people have a story about something that confirmed for them that they were LGBTQ. For me, it was Lynda Carter...
The long arc of equal-rights history
In the years after the Civil War and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment that freed slaves, Congress debated the status of the black...
Safe sites
Here’s an issue this paper has not dived into deeply enough that has caused neighborhoods in this city and others to reexamine a successful...
We are one for the ages
It amazes me how so many seem to view the notion of “transgender people” as if it were something that magically winked into existence...
We wish and resolve …
Adriana: My resolution for the year is to highlight more stories from underrepresented groups, especially transgender women of color. Don: I wish everyone to...
Reflections on recognition
Over the last few years many of you have congratulated me for various awards of recognition. And I sincerely appreciate these sentiments, but it...
People and news of 2018
Our choice for news of the year should be no surprise since it has taken more column inches in this paper than any other...
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...
A holiday wish
So, once again, we reach the closing of the year. When I was much younger than I am today, as the scent of the...
New Year’s resolution: Time for the LGBTQ community to quit the tobacco industry
“Whenever someone yells, ‘Dude, that’s so gay,’ we’ll be there.” “Freedom. to speak. to choose. to marry. to participate. to be. to disagree. to...
Our beloved dog
Jason and I have a little French bulldog named Zola. She just had her 1st birthday. And, as should be expected, Jason and I...
Michigan Republicans
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