Catholic hardliners
This week, the Catholic Church announced it was accepting the resignation of Cardinal Justin Rigali and installing Charles Chaput as Philadelphia’s new Archbishop. ...
Letters and Feedback
Power 99/Clear Channel, it’s 2011 for God’s sake! We’ve come a long way. We have done a ton of learning and...
Hitting a speed bump
If you read PGN’s website last week, you might have read the story regarding the William Way Senior Residence project, which hopes to create...
Creep of the Week: Linda Harvey
If there’s anything I love it’s a good ol’ Nazi allusion. It’s the ultimate argument winner. All you have to do is...
What the f?
Is the heat getting to people? It’s not even August yet — the dog days of summer haven’t hit — but it seems as...
Pride notes to self
I had a peachy time marching in Seattle’s Pride parade in June. My partner Anne and I, members of a Unitarian Universalist...
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...
Census numbers = voting power
The recently released census figures for same-sex couples in Philadelphia, published in last week’s PGN, make a major statement — and prove why Sherrie...
Creep of the Week: Vicky Hartzler
Gays are a bunch of crybabies. Yeah, I said it. And you know what that took? Courage. And you know who...
Where is my equality?
Like many queer Americans, I cried when the New York vote on marriage equality came in late Friday night. I spent years...
Creep of the Week: Pat Robertson
Nothing brings the creeps out of the woodwork like pro-marriage equality. The good news out of New York has gotten some people...
Community rifts
In Philadelphia, the LGBT community isn’t always known for its harmony. There are deep rifts that date back to decades-old affronts, real...
Allowing religion to define the marriage debate
If you read this space last week, we gave the reasons that New York would pass marriage equality. Mainly that the LGBT...
Marriage woes
As PGN goes to press, same-sex marriage is the final issue holding up the end of the legislative session in the New York Senate,...
‘Gay marriage’ really means dollars?
About seven years ago, I wrote in this space that gay marriage would happen and it would come in about eight years, state by...
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...
Let’s be real, no really
Twice in the past week, it came to light that the somewhat-anonymous person behind a lesbian blog persona was not, in fact, a lesbian,...
Creep of the Week: Tracy Morgan
Imagine you paid money to see some stand-up comedy and the comedian was totally hilarious. He had this amazing bit about homosexuality...
Facebook cure for writer’s block
Every few months, I ask my Facebook friends what they’d like me to write about. It’s sort of a poll of what’s...
Simply saddening
There are events in life in which human compassion simply cannot ignore the utterly inhumane nature of perpetrator against victim. Abu Ghraib,...
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