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Vaporizing Stonewall
Photo by Glynnis Jones/Bigstock By Mark Segal, PGN This week, I’m writing about an issue that sheds new light on a subject we all think we know: Stonewall. Earlier this week, my husband Jason, who...
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Ruby Jubilee: The Saloon Reaches Its 40th Birthday
Photo by Sophia Hantzes Everyone knows that your 50th anniversary is golden, and your 25th anniversary is silver…but what substance has been assigned to the 40th anniversary? Why, the same substance...
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A Word In Edgewise: Reading for Your Life
Photo by Goodmoments/Bigstock.com When I was ten, Dad and I drove up to Canada for a fishing trip. One evening, stopping at a motel on the bank of the St. Lawrence River, I asked if I could go...
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A Word In Edgewise: That Old Question of Apples and Trees
Photo by Rachel Lerch/Bigstock.com Once again, one of iconic pastor Billy Graham’s progeny is in the news. While son Franklin keeps up his unrelenting background drumbeat of anti-GLBT rhetoric,...
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Q & A with National Coming Out Day Speaker Judy Shepard
Photo courtesy of the Matthew Shepard Foundation In 1998, Judy Shepard lost her son Matthew to a murder motivated by anti-gay hate in Laramie, Wyoming. Since then, she has become a leading voice in...
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A friend of mine tells jokes—tells them well—and we usually laugh. “We,” being our group that gathers weekly for beverages and low-stakes wagers concerning the relative values of cardboard rectangles....
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Skirting The Issues: Death Gap Math
Photo courtesy of BigStock/BillionPhotos.com When I was younger, like in my 20s, 30s, and early 40s, the concept of death was relatively foreign, as in, “That’s so far away.” But not now. At 61, I’m...
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A Word In Edgewise: More Than An Apple A Day
Photo courtesy of BigStock/Chinnapong Keeping healthy is only part of the equation of continued well-being. Even proper diet and exercise can’t override control our genetic makeup, random encounters...
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A Word In Edgewise: A Good Man Is Hard To Tell
Photo courtesy of BigStock/Andrey Suslov From middle school on, I read science fiction, but somehow, though I did read two of this prodigious author’s autobiographical tomes, I neglected Isaac Isamov’s...
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Skirting The Issues: Idealism Buoyed Hundredfold: Part 2
A sign memorializing the historic efforts of civil rights icon Rosa Parks. Photo courtesy of Ellie Krug. Last month, I wrote about my plan to travel across the South to speak about hope with the goal...
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