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Sherrie Cohen just hit the trifecta of elections. The community organizer and LGBT candidate for City Council-at-Large just learned that she is...
Creep of the Week: Kevin Swanson
Creep of the Week: Kevin Swanson I was just reading about a middle-school student who shot and killed his math teacher in...
Awarding the search for justice
PGN learned this week that our longtime reporter Tim Cwiek was awarded a prestigious national award for his investigative reporting on the unsolved homicide...
Enough already
Ever since the King of Pop died, mainstream media has been nigh on obsessed with rehashing Michael Jackson’s life and legacy. ...
What are the holiday wishes of PGN’s staffers?
Carol: My Christmas wish for this year is that my family and friends continue to stay in good health and that everyone experiences love,...
Feedback: April 9-15
In response to “Civil-union bill to hit PA House,” April 2-8: Civil unions, although unequal to full marriage, are a logical step toward...
Loss of a leader
Last weekend, the LGBT community lost one of its most vibrant spirits, Jaci Adams. Jaci has been described as an activist, as...
Surveying the landscape
PGN has long been committed to providing the local LGBT community the news it needs — but also the news it wants. In that...
Senior housing and the LGBT community
Earlier this week, some of us working on elder LGBT issues watched a screening of the documentary “A Place To Live: The Story of...
We have arrived
Listen up, LGBT America. The history of your struggle for LGBT equality is about to go mainstream. Just like the struggle of the black...
My personal confession
While you’re reading this, I’m on a plane on my way to San Francisco for the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association convention, where...
The pope, the Democrats and the LGBT community
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Think before you speak
There are many reasons New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie wouldn’t make a good president: his approach to education, that pesky “Bridgegate” scandal, his less-than-stellar...
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...
History in the making
This is LGBT History Month, and its very name signifies a story worth telling, as this community is still finding itself and still forming....
Defining man
Last week, a transgender man filed an antidiscrimination lawsuit after he was fired from a drug-testing facility in New Jersey. In...
Convention debrief
Last weekend, nearly 250 LGBT and ally journalists and marketing individuals convened in San Francisco to mark the 20th anniversary of the National Lesbian...
30 years is too long
It was in 1981 that gay men in the United States first started to contract and die from a mysterious disease, now known as...
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...
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