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Black and Brown LGBTQ organizers start to formulate a new Philly Pride

In the weeks following the abrupt dissolution of Philly Pride Presents, a group of Black and Brown LGBTQ+ community leaders have begun formulating plans...

‘The Big lie is just that, a big lie’: In Philly, Biden calls for concerted effort to fight assaults on voting rights

By Nick Field, Stephen Caruso, and Marley Parish Returning to the state that handed him the White House, President Joe Biden made a passionate plea Tuesday...

DA Krasner challenges subpoena in Morris case

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is challenging PGN’s subpoena to appear at an upcoming court hearing regarding the paper’s request for additional records in...

ACT UP Philadelphia calls for revamp of city’s housing services

To mark the end of Pride month and the ongoing fight for adequate housing, members of the Philadelphia chapter of the HIV/AIDS activism organization...

PGN continues pursuit of records in Morris case

Last week, attorneys for PGN filed a supplemental brief in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, reiterating the paper’s request for additional records in the Nizah...

Kensington orgs facilitate youth study on community policing

The nonprofit Creative Praxis recently wrapped up the youth-centric study My Voice Matters in partnership with the We CAN Collaborative (Change and Action Now)....

Arts & Culture

Father-son drama “Joe Bell” has heart, but lacks nuance

A painfully earnest melodrama, “Joe Bell,” opening in area theaters July 23, awkwardly chronicles the title character’s (Mark Wahlberg) walk across America in 2013...

“Unsanitized” for your protection: an interview with Bianca Del Rio

Could there possibly be a better way to spend one’s birthday than interviewing RuPaul’s Drag Race’s season six champion Bianca Del Rio? I’ll have...

Horoscopes: July 16 – 22, 2021

Lee Singletary: Creating New Worlds

“Summertime” is slam poetry joy

Horoscopes: July 9 – 16, 2021

Amelia Mraz: The Bee’s Knees

Regional

Pennsylvania Youth Congress calls out corporations for lack of LGBTQ support

In June, as corporations donned rainbow merchandise and updated their logos for Pride, the Pennsylvania Youth Congress was sending a message: companies who celebrate...

National

FDA warns against using poppers

"Poppers" have been a fixture for LGBTQ people on the club and sex party circuit for years. Poppers are a liquid drug used for recreation...

Judge blocks Tennessee restroom-sign law

On July 9, a federal judge blocked a Tennessee law that would require businesses and other public venues to post a warning sign if...

New research shows discrimination more greatly harms LGBTQ people of color

A coalition of leading LGBTQ rights groups has released the most extensive summary to date of scholarly data on the intersection of anti-LGBTQ and...

LIFE DURING COVID-19

Game Plan: Philly’s Queer Sports Teams Look Forward To Summer

Last year, PGN spoke with our local LGBTQ sports teams to see what their seasons would look like during the COVID shutdown. The answer...

Spring Awakening: Gayborhood businesses a year into the new normal

Last year, PGN spoke with Gayborhood businesses to see how they were managing through pandemic regulations. Locally-owned businesses the world over have felt the...

LGBTQ seniors at JCAA get Covid-19 vaccinations

Residents of the John C. Anderson LGBT-friendly Senior Apartments received their first doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine last week, with second doses scheduled...

New report shows LGBTQ people disproportionately impacted by COVID-19

A new report from the Movement Advancement Project, which compiled the data and presented the report based on polling data. shows that LGBTQ households...

Thanksgiving During a Pandemic: How the LGBTQ Community is Celebrating During Lockdown

For this Thanksgiving holiday, the CDC has advised Americans to stay at home and not travel. In Philadelphia, indoor gatherings of more than one...

COVID-19 spikes in Philadelphia

Philadelphia had its single largest increase in Covid-19 infections on Tuesday, with 879 new confirmed cases of the virus. Last week, the average of...

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“Unsanitized” for your protection: an interview with Bianca Del Rio

Could there possibly be a better way to spend one’s birthday than interviewing RuPaul’s Drag Race’s season six champion Bianca Del Rio? I’ll have...

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142 openly LGBTQ athletes to compete in Tokyo Olympics

This year’s summer Olympics is set to have a record number of LGBTQ athletes competing, with the highest percentage coming from the United States....

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Irene Benedetti, longtime LGBT advocate, 79

Irene Benedetti, a beloved member of the LGBT community, died May 30 of kidney failure at VITAS Hospice in South Philadelphia. She was 79...

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