The 50 senators who voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh
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Honoring our own
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LGBTs deserve Republican attention
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Pride: A historical perspective
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Creep of the Week: Kim Haynes
Remember back in the day when black people couldn’t swim in public pools because white people didn’t want to catch being black? Luckily...
The Duggars
I’ll admit I’ve never watched “19 and Counting,” the reality show about the Duggar family. But from what I understand, it’s...
Nice ideas
Dear Editor: I think that a gay senior housing center would be nice . At first my cynical mind reeled, thinking it...
Rhode Island: Rights do not equal equality
Last weekend, Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed the state’s civil-union law, a compromise neither marriage-equality advocates nor opponents like. The...
Budget ups and downs
On Monday, the Obama administration released its 2011 budget, a $3. 8-trillion, 192-page effort to move from “recession to recovery, and ultimately to...
Sick day regrouping
It’s Feb. 10 and I’m supposed to be in Washington, D.C., at the White House LGBT Elder Housing Conference — but instead I’m home...
Your words, and mine
This is the last column of the summer, and I’ve done something that I do every so often — asked my Facebook friends what...
For Carl
Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover was a sixth-grader in the Springfield (Mass. ) Schools in the 2008-09 school year. School was an awful place for...
Creep of the Week: Betsy DeVos
School sux, amirite, guys? Pencils, books, teachers’ dirty looks. Ugh. Who needs it? I mean, the very idea of public education...
Creep of the Week: James Dobson
During a recent episode of James Dobson’s “Family Talk” radio program, Dobson and his guests discussed the evils of trans-inclusive antidiscrimination laws. Such laws...
So-called Muslim ban a danger to LGBT community
Any day now, President Donald Trump is expected to announce — with great fanfare, I’m sure, including a drum roll — his pronouncement on...
Empowering hate
Mr. President: I write to you today regarding your lifting of the federal guidance on transgender rights in schools. While I am not privy...
Bob Frey
Bob Frey, a Republican candidate for the Minnesota House of Representatives, was recently in the news for saying some really unhinged, not to mention...
Election headache
Elections are always headache-inducing here in the editorial department of PGN. There is the stress of will the candidates respond to us,...
Creep of the Week: John McCain
I wish I still had my dog-eared and tattered copy of “Conduct Unbecoming” so I could send it to Sen. John McCain....
Creep of the week: Mike Huckabee
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