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LGBTQ+ people more likely to be negatively impacted by return-to-office policies

Mayor Cherelle Parker’s return-to-office mandate officially went into effect on July 15, forcing city workers back to working in-person five days per week. The...

Third-degree murder charges reinstated for Kenneth Frye

Third-degree murder charges have been reinstated against Kenneth Frye, a former bouncer at Tabu Nightclub who fatally punched Eric Pope in 2022. Frye, 25, punched...

Syringe service provider responds to Mayor Parker’s defunding

Mayor Cherelle Parker’s budget for fiscal year 2025 does not include any funding for syringe exchange programs — a harm reduction and public health...

Temple health providers bring trans-affirming surgery to Argentina

Argentina is known for implementing some of the most comprehensive federal laws to protect and affirm trans people. In 2012, the country became the...

Aaron Bashir couches MAGA extremism in ‘common sense’ rhetoric

During the current election season, it behooves LGBTQ+ voters to carefully study the candidates in every race. This is particularly the case regarding Republican...

Philly’s disabled performers talk about the impacts of ableism on LGBTQ+ nightlife

According to the Movement Advancement Project, almost 40% of LGBTQ+ adults are disabled, and the 2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System puts that figure...

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Horoscopes: July 26-Aug. 1, 2024

Aries: When Venus, the love planet, trines Chiron, the asteroid of challenges, and then Chiron turns retrograde, you have a new clarity but a...

Vanessa Sterling: Shaking up Shakespeare

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!” ~ William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” That’s kind of how I’ve been feeling these past few tumultuous weeks....

Horoscopes: July 19-25, 2024

Anthony Logan: On fire!

Horoscopes: July 12-18, 2024

Regional

Amber Roadcap steps into leadership at The LGBT Center of Central PA

Amber Roadcap, who was recently named executive director of The LGBT Center of Central PA, said that being a “helper” and “connector” has always...

National

What to know about short-listed potential Veeps and their LGBTQ+ track records

President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris — who has a history of showing up as an...

Kamala Harris: Game Change

Almost from the moment the news broke Sunday, July 21 that President Joe Biden had decided to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race and...

Trump picks anti-LGBTQ JD Vance as running mate

By Christopher Kane, Washington Blade Courtesy of the NLGBTQ Media Association Former President Donald Trump announced anti-LGBTQ U.S. Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his 2024...

LIFE DURING COVID-19

As Long Covid cases rise, so do costs

The U.S. continues to reassess Covid-19 and address it as a long-term problem rather than a public health crisis, even suspending the free testing...

Long COVID: The Other Pandemic — Part 3

In the summer of 2020, Tariq Scott was in the streets of Philadelphia protesting the killing of George Floyd. The winter and spring had...

Long COVID: The Other Pandemic – Part 2

This the second installment of a three part series. Since the end of 2019, when COVID-19 was first designated a pandemic by the World Health...

Long COVID: The Other Pandemic

This is part one of a three part series. Masks came off a few weeks ago: a harbinger of Spring. On February 25, the Centers...

CDC says vaccinated should wear masks indoors in areas with high infection rates

Federal health officials urged Americans in areas of the country with the highest surges in COVID-19 infections to once again wear masks when they...

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...

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Television

‘My Lady Jane’: History that doesn’t take itself seriously

The irreverent new series, “My Lady Jane,” now available on Prime Video, is a revisionist take on the Tudors in general and Lady Jane...

Editorial

Trump is still the enemy

People on both the right and the left have taken opportunities to lend sympathy after the attempted assassination of presidential candidate Donald Trump last...

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Obituaries

Anita Cornwell, groundbreaking Black lesbian writer, dies at 99

Anita Cornwell passed away May 27 in Germantown “surrounded by the compassionate women who cared for her,” her literary executor, Briona Simone Jones, said....

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2019: LGBTQ YEAR IN REVIEW

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