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Thinking out loud: Other people’s choices
Having friends who don’t share your political views is very inconvenient. It requires you to think in terms of individuals, rather than lump everyone you disagree with into a tidy group that is (pi...
May 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Straightening up at the Boy Scouts of America
Sometime in the 1920s, my grandfather became the then-youngest Boy Scout to obtain the top rank of Eagle Scout. When he died, he was as proud of that as he was of piloting ships into Tokyo Bay at t...
Apr 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thanks from the Person of the Year
How do I begin to tell you or the LGBTQ community how honored and proud I am to have been named “Person of the Year”? It truly was a surprise to me. I never would have expected this because I have...
Jan 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Civil rights delayed is civil rights denied
By N.J. Assemblyman Reed Gusciora
Dec 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Staying safe this season
From the Police Liaison Committee The holiday season is upon us, but it is also the season to be wary of burglars, thieves, pickpockets and other holiday grinches. Nothing can ruin the holiday ...
Nov 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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The kids are not all right
On May 9, President Obama publicly stated his support for same-sex marriage for the first time. It was a milestone for the LGBT civil-rights movement: It marked the first time in our nation’s histo...
Nov 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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'A lot of my friends are being killed'
At a visit to an Obama campaign field office in Sarasota, Fla., the vice president singled out a woman who, it was reported, he thought had beautiful eyes. That woman is Linda Carragher Bourne. A ...
Nov 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Research as advocacy for LGBT rights
It feels almost safe to assume that we are on the brink of a new era of LGBT rights. The president supports gay marriage. A growing majority of U.S. citizens, led by younger people and liberals, su...
Jul 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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ACT UP, fight back, end AIDS
Twenty-two years ago. That is the last time that the International AIDS Conference, the single largest conference on HIV/AIDS, was held in the U.S. The reason it has been so long since the last con...
Jul 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Separating trans, gay and lesbian histories
Last week, PGN published an article about Locust Street between 12th and 13th being renamed Barbara Gittings Way [“‘Gittings Way’ in the works,” June 22-28]. Malcolm Lazin, who proposed the renamin...
Jun 28, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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