Observations from Pride
The most common sights from last weekend’s Pride festivities all seemed to involve the heat — festivalgoers fanning themselves, mopping sweat from their brows,...
Scouting limbo
Last week, the jury in the Boy Scouts case challenging the city of Philadelphia’s effort to evict them from a city-owned building handed down...
Time for action in PA
Human Rights Campaign released a report this week that ranked the Keystone State among the worst in the nation for LGBT rights. ...
A lesson from our youth
Like many people in my position, I get numerous requests for speaking engagements. Since my time is limited, I choose them carefully, especially since...
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...
Letters and Feedback
Once again, Philadelphia has come out on top of the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index, which is especially appropriate in light of the...
Letters and Feedback
Dear Editor: While I respect and appreciate the work of Liberty City Democrats, I am concerned about two matters that focus on their...
Cheers and jeers for lawmakers
Elections must be coming. The state’s political leaders are speaking out, for and against LGBT issues, courting votes and ostracizing constituents. ...
One for the gays, atheists
On Monday, the U. S. Supreme Court let stand — for now — a lower court ruling that the City of San Diego...
Discrimination dust-up
Last week’s column seems to have kicked up a lot of dust. Titled “LGBT politics 101” (you can read it at www.epgn.com),...
What comes next
Resist you did, and you won, so what to do now? Here’s the LGBT roadmap: Nancy Pelosi stated that if Democrats...
What’s marriage got to do with it?
This week, PGN is showcasing same-sex wedding options in our Arts and Culture section, in response to the growing number of neighboring states that...
Creep of the Week: James Dobson
To say that the horrific murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. , last month stunned the nation is an understatement....
Creep of the Week: Gina Miller
Sound the alarm! Radical homosexuals are coming for your God-given rights! And they probably are armed with pie tins full of whipped cream and/or...
Creep of the Week: Louie Gohmert
There are few topics that raise the collective temperatures of Americans on all sides as much as gun control and gay marriage. ...
Finding your own holiday spirit
By this time you’re either caught up with the holiday spirit or you’re so tired of it that you’re asking when it will end....
Health-insurance companies
We all know that men can get breast cancer. It’s more common in women, but it can and does happen. Thankfully,...
Dissecting the day’s news
It often fascinates me how we look at events and issues. Here are some of my favorites. Terrorism. The Bush administration...
Selling out
Now that the Pride festivities of June have officially ended, many people are looking back, evaluating the month’s events and making observations. A number...
Heartened from the Heartland
Headlines in the last week have been dominated by news about Indiana’s new anti-LGBT law. While the law — and similar efforts growing in...


















