Creep of the Week: Bryan Fischer
It’s a dark day for gay and bi-curious men. Well, at least for all the gay and bi-curious men who were hoping...
Count your blessings
As the holiday season starts and the end of the year approaches, it’s a good time to take stock of where we’ve been and...
A look at the two gay candidates running statewide
As the Associated Press recently reported, Pennsylvania politics is in the national spotlight. And we in the LGBT community have two statewide races where...
LGBTQ folks, COVID-19 and PGN
What a time to be in the business of news. When COVID-19 is researched years from now, it is the stories published today that...
Creep of the Week: Brian Brown
Imagine you are in a grocery-store parking lot loading groceries into your car when up behind you comes an old man. He looks confused,...
Mr. President, Washington and Franklin thank you
When President Obama signed the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” he might have felt the ghosts of Founding Fathers George Washington and Benjamin...
Suicide Prevention Month
September is Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month in the U.S. Suicide can affect anybody — any family or any workplace. Less than four months...
Chambersburg’s nondiscrimination repeal could happen anywhere
On January 24, Chambersburg Borough Council voted 7-3 to repeal the LGBTQ nondiscrimination law that was passed in September 2021. The reason for the...
Far-right video game spreads hate
If you want to know what the far right that supports President Trump thinks of you, they want you dead. You think I’m kidding....
Calling out insensitive, anti-Semitic protest
When I was a boy of 13, my grandmother took me to my first civil-rights demonstration to teach me about racism and social justice....
Sen. Casey and repealing DOMA
Let’s talk about all those petitions that the LGBT community delivered to Sen. Bob Casey. If you haven’t followed the story in...
Creep of the Week: Omar Mateen
No one on an FBI watch list should be able to easily buy a gun. No one should be allowed to buy a gun...
Creep of the Week: Alex Jones
Alex Jones of the conspiracy-laden, right-wing echo chamber that is Infowars took a closer look at the so-called Women’s March on the Jan. 22...
Biases, boycotts and mosques
I asked my Facebook friends what I should write about this week. Their top suggestions were Proposition 8, Target’s donation to an...
Marriage equality means more Pennsylvanians have access to health insurance
The struggle for same-sex couples to access health-insurance benefits has been long-standing. Despite some employers offering same-sex benefits, Pennsylvania same-sex couples could...
What does National Coming Out Day mean to the PGN staff?
Don: Since I always was an outsider, coming out was no big deal. Relax and be yourself. There's no reason to live a lie...
Creep of the Week: Cindy Jacobs
Thanks to Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist thugs, everybody knows that God hates fags. But you know what else God hates?...
Education beyond Stonewall 50
The 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots is finally upon us after a month-long venture engaging with LGBTQIA-plus history — what a journey it...
Ending the bullying
Over the past few months, school bullying — and its sometimes-dire consequences — has garnered media and national attention. This week,...
Why community spaces matter
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