Pride with a new perspective
This Pride season, I’m beaming on almost every level, and there is so much that could be listed here. Let me start...
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...
Separate but equal
At the beginning of last week, same-sex couples in Pennsylvania had next to nothing in terms of rights: They couldn’t file taxes jointly, they...
Creep of the Week: Charles Van Zant
It used to be that if you wanted to make a right-wing conservative freak out, all you had to do was show them a...
Corbett, the inside story and the thank-yous
I’d like to believe that we are a community that gives appreciation where it is just. And we need to recognize and...
Letters and Feedback
In regard to “Pennsylvania says ‘I do,’” May 23-29: With Gov. Corbett dropping the appeal in the Whitewood case,...
Number 19
Wow. Let’s all just take a breather ... And go. On May 20, 2014, Pennsylvania became the 19th state...
Creep of the Week — Tom Cotton
OK, let’s get one thing straight here. If you are an everyday American citizen (a commoner, let’s say), you have very little...
The politics of marriage equality
The primary election is now history, but history was made for marriage equality on more than one front. And I wonder how...
Ignoring the idiocy
If you’re like the PGN staff, you may have begun reading the online comments on stories about Michael Sam’s becoming the first openly gay...
Creep of the Week: Robert R. Reilly
When the author of the book “Making Gay OK: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything” writes in his introduction, “It should be emphasized...
ENDA’s exemption
Luckily for me, I get to write about a fun person in this column: my friend Matt Foreman, the former executive director of the...
Wives, husbands and equality in the Keystone State
As marriage-equality litigation makes its way through the courts in the Keystone State, for LGBT couples who want to marry, I can forewarn you...
A governor we can count on
All of the Democratic gubernatorial candidates are with us on our issues — nondiscrimination, marriage equality, anti-bullying and hate crimes, among them — which...
Creep of the Week: Idaho Division of Veterans Services
Imagine that your spouse is dead. You spent 17 years of your lives together, caring for and loving each other. Now her...
McCord for governor
In this issue of PGN, we endorse Rob McCord for governor. If you want to know the factual reasons, please read our...
Discord and distraction
In Connecticut, a 16-year-old transwoman of color is being held in an adult prison — with no charges filed against her. ...
End of an era
Giovanni’s Room announced this week that it would shut its doors for good later this month. The LGBT bookstore, which was the...
Creep of the Week: Earl Bullard
Here’s a hypothetical situation for you: Let’s say you’ve been the mayor for less than a year of a little town in South Carolina...
Comcast Cares (about the LGBT community)
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