Telling the truth about our history
Last week there was a request in my email for an interview, but this one had an interesting twist. Here’s part of what it...
Taking back 2022
The holidays can be a hard time to be a trans person. More often than not, we don’t have a lot of family to...
Unanswered questions
DeFarra Gaymon, a prominent CEO from Georgia, made a trip north last month to attend his high-school reunion in New Jersey, an event he...
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...
Uncovering America’s gay history
Next week’s PGN, along with 28 newspapers across the country, will begin to celebrate October as Gay History Month. This is the...
Creep of the Week: Russell D. Moore
How do you solve a problem like a tranny? How do you catch a gender and pin it down? Those are the questions...
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...
The suicide epidemic
Suicide in the United States is on the rise — in some states, exponentially. Nationwide, suicide rates have risen by 25 percent from 1999...
Number 19
Wow. Let’s all just take a breather ... And go. On May 20, 2014, Pennsylvania became the 19th state...
Projects abound this year
Every year, a promise runs through my mind: This year will be the year that I’ll finally slow down. Well, that has...
Time to vote
OK, I believe this column is preaching to the choir, but we are days away from an election — an election that will in...
Political Roundup
My Labor Day weekend column is always one that muses on topics that just don’t make it in during the rest of the year. ...
Biases and bad theories
At the heart of many societies’ "-isms" is a laundry list of stereotypes that seek to characterize a group in ways that both provide...
Being a good person is enough
On the cover of this week’s PGN is “Remember Them.” It’s a feature about the trans and nonbinary people in the U.S. who were...
Unexpected allies
It’s a little hard to believe, but this week, former Vice President Dick Cheney again said he supported gay marriage. During...
Peter LaBarbera
OMG, you will never believe this but Peter LaBarbera is in jail. Just kidding, kind of. For those of you familiar with LaBarbera, the...
Being seen
I grew up in a Southern California suburb in the 1970s, a short distance from the smog-filled skies of Los Angeles. It was a...
Church synod LGBT slap in the face?
For the LGBT community to simply ignore what happened at the Vatican a couple of weeks ago when Pope Francis convened a synod on...
A gift of generations
If you passed through the Gayborhood this week, you may have seen the rainbow-colored gift wrapping on the John C. Anderson Apartments....
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