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Mayoral Candidate Interview: Jeff Brown

Jeremy Rodriguez - February 15, 2023 4:56 pm

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Lesbian released after 12 years of incarceration for murder

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Homeless After the Music Business Rejected Her, This Trans Director’s First Film Just Premiered at Sundance

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For Black gay men, health challenges include a lack of seeking preventive care

Local

Mayoral Candidate Interview: Jeff Brown

Jeremy Rodriguez - February 15, 2023 4:56 pm

Jeff Brown is the founder of Brown’s Super Stores, Inc., a twelve-store supermarket chain trading under the ShopRite and The Fresh Grocer supermarket brands,...

Lesbian released after 12 years of incarceration for murder

Tim Cwiek - February 15, 2023 1:33 pm

India Spellman has been released after 12 years of incarceration for a murder that her advocates say she never committed. She’s believed to be...

Black and Brown LGBTQ community members to hold annual health symposium

Michele Zipkin - February 8, 2023 6:04 pm

In continued conversations about inequities in healthcare for Black and Brown, queer and trans people living with HIV, the organizers of Black and Latinx...

Mayoral Candidate Interview: James DeLeon

Jeremy Rodriguez - February 8, 2023 10:30 am

Prior to announcing his run for Philadelphia mayor, James M. DeLeon served as a municipal court judge for 34 years. According to his website,...

Third-degree murder charge dismissed against killer of Eric Pope

Tim Cwiek - February 7, 2023 10:30 am

The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office is appealing a recent decision by a Philadelphia judge to dismiss third-degree murder charges against Kenneth Frye, a former...

LGBTQ candidates hope to make history in City Hall

Michele Zipkin - February 2, 2023 1:09 pm

Despite being one of the most LGBTQ-friendly cities in the country, Philadelphia has never had an openly LGBTQ person elected to City Council. In...

Arts & Culture

Arts

The Rosenbach Museum to host tour of 20th century lesbian writer’s memoir materials

Michele Zipkin - February 15, 2023 4:51 pm

As part of the Behind the Bookcase tour series, The Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia will offer the tour “Here Lies the Heart:...

Theater

The Go-Gos meet the 16th century in “Head over Heels” musical

Cameron Kelsall - February 15, 2023 3:09 pm

What do Elizabethan English drama, 1980s pop music and queer joy have in common? To find out, you’ll have to see “Head Over Heels”...

Homeless After the Music Business Rejected Her, This Trans Director’s First Film Just Premiered at Sundance

February 14, 2023 11:45 am

Youthful desire and longing permeate “Of an Age”

February 13, 2023 3:39 pm

Antoni Porowski: Cooking up Love

February 9, 2023 4:00 pm

Horoscopes: February 10 to 16

February 9, 2023 3:00 pm

Romantic LGBTQ films abound for Valentine’s Day

February 9, 2023 2:00 pm

“1776” comes home, with a twist

February 8, 2023 12:11 pm

‘Close’ is a powerful film about queer youth

February 3, 2023 10:00 am

Tariem Burroughs: Making an impact

February 2, 2023 5:00 pm

Regional

Pa. LGBTQ leaders create statewide advocacy organization

Michele Zipkin - February 7, 2023 2:12 pm

In an effort to advance LGBTQ inclusion in Pennsylvania, leaders from across the state formed Keystone Equality, a nonpartisan organization with a goal of...

Lesbian couple plead guilty to avoid death penalty in starvation deaths

January 25, 2023 5:03 pm

‘Our democracy is a constant work in progress.’ Shapiro sworn in as Pa.’s 48th governor

January 18, 2023 10:28 am

Gov. Tom Wolf reflects on eight years of successes, stumbles and standoffs

January 4, 2023 10:52 am

Despite election results, Republicans attempting to keep Pa. house majority

December 28, 2022 12:20 pm

State agency approves LGBTQ-inclusive antibias regulations

December 13, 2022 4:17 pm

National

“He Gets Us” ads funded by anti-LGBTQ, anti-abortion donors

Victoria A. Brownworth - February 15, 2023 4:41 pm

If you were watching the SuperBowl — and what Philadelphian wasn’t? — you saw all the much-hyped and super-pricey commercials that are often as...

New proposal may force female high school athletes in Florida to reveal menstrual history

Victoria A. Brownworth - February 8, 2023 6:23 pm

In the GOP response to President Biden’s State of the Union Address on February 7, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, newly elected Arkansas governor and former...