Respecting those still in the closet
The outburst by NBA player Kobe Bryant (yelling an antigay slur at a referee) triggered a new discussion of homophobia in professional sports and...
On racial inequality
On June 29, 65 school-age children from an inner-city day camp visited a private Montgomery County swim club, where they encountered what looks to...
Barring bullying in our schools
The Safe Schools Improvement Act, introduced this week in the U. S. House of Representatives, seeks to ensure that students, including LGBT youth,...
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...
Creep of the Week: Linda Wall:
Once upon a time there was a lesbian gym teacher (shocking, I know). More specifically, that time was the early 1970s and...
Welcome to your glass houses
Clint McCance, Molly Wei and Dharun Ravi are catching hell, running scared and getting a taste of their own medicine. Good!...
Creep of the Week: Rick Santorum
A round of applause for Rick Santorum, everybody. What a brave, brave man. In his July 14 Philadelphia Inquirer column, Santorum...
Inch by inch
One of the longest and strongest stalwarts against LGBT equality, the Catholic Church, made a slight budge this week. While the emphasis certainly needs...
Leading by example
In the absence of national leadership on LGBTQ equality, cities and even towns are stepping up to pass ordinances protecting basic rights for citizens....
What are the holiday wishes of the PGN staff?
Don: For Donald Trump to be impeached. Jeremy: I hope to finally move to this beautiful city so I can be...
A seat at the (board) table
A few weeks ago, I received a letter that asked me to serve on the National Diversity Advisory Council of Comcast NBC/Universal. ...
PA’s gay Republican? A good thing
A Republican Christian right-of-center state representative from a conservative Pennsylvania district has come out — and some in our community have reacted like the...
Vaporizing Stonewall
This week, I’m writing about an issue that sheds new light on a subject we all think we know: Stonewall. Earlier this week, my...
Ugly politics
Over the last 43 years of this publication, we felt we saw about almost everything you could see in politics. But never did we...
Noting Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,...
Feeling the pain
Earlier this week, President Obama announced an executive pay cap of $500,000 for companies that received federal bailout money last year, following reports that...
Creep of the Week: Scott Lively
I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention to what’s been going on in Uganda lately, but you should know that it’s really, really...
On families and inequality
President Obama proclaimed Monday, Sept. 28, Family Day, and included a reference to gay families in his formal proclamation. In the...
The younger generation gets it
It’s a wonderful feeling to be recognized for the work you do and, for me, the past couple of years have been full of...
Pride and new beginnings
Chris Bartlett was introduced as the new executive director of the William Way LGBT Community Center at its annual Building Bash last Saturday. ...
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