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A place of their own: Philly’s sapphics long for a lesbian bar

“I was in a dyke bar not knowing that I was a dyke then,” laughed Sam Margerum, a 26-year-old lesbian, who used to hang...

Edward “George” Dobosh, 87, longtime educator

Edward "George” Dobosh, a longtime educator and beloved member of the local LGBTQ+ community, died on April 11, four days short of his 88th...

Jane Shull, longtime CEO of FIGHT, is retiring but doesn’t intend to slow down

“I was raised in a family of Jewish liberals who were activists, right?” shrugged Jane Shull when asked what inspired her to pursue a...

Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference registration opens May 6

For the first time since 2019, a local free conference centered on health and wellness for transgender and gender-nonconforming people will return for in-person...

A look back at Philly’s Crown Jewel, Sapphira Cristál

Warning: This story contains spoilers for the season 16 finale of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” A day before the season 16 finale of “RuPaul’s Drag Race”...

UPenn hosts free online panel for LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion

The Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative by University of Pennsylvania is hosting a free online panel on April 23 at 11a.m, on the integration of...

Arts & Culture

Coming Home: Brittney Griner speaks her truth 

Brittney Griner says she thought about killing herself during the first few weeks she spent in a Russian jail, during her grueling 10-month wrongful...

The Artistic Director of Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus is retiring after 20 years

Joseph J. Buches comes from a musical family. His mother was a singer and his father was an organist. The latter taught him how...

Rami Margron: Actor, Mover, Dancer

Horoscopes: May 3-9, 2024

Eric Hatcher: Styling!

Horoscopes: April 26-May 2, 2024

Regional

Nonbinary person sues IBX for alleged overbilling

A nonbinary person who lives in Yardley, Pa. is suing Independence Blue Cross for allegedly overbilling them for STD screenings, including a screening for...

National

Coming Home: Brittney Griner speaks her truth 

Brittney Griner says she thought about killing herself during the first few weeks she spent in a Russian jail, during her grueling 10-month wrongful...

Survey: 12% of LGBTQ+ youth attempted suicide in 2023

New data from the Trevor Project, the main suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ+ youth in the United States, reveals that more than one in...

Reporter’s Notebook: Police, Campus Protests and Questions of Free Speech

The scene in New York at Columbia University April 30 was hard to watch and harder to fathom. On April 29, Columbia University President...

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

‘Danny Will Die Alone’: Lancaster native talks sex and dating in new comedy series

Out Lancaster native Jack Tracy’s webseries, “Danny Will Die Alone,” available May 16 on Dekkoo, recounts the title character’s misadventures dating in New York...

Editorial

Sapphira Cristál is OUR winner

Fans of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” — and even Philadelphians outside of the fandom — were shocked on April 19 when Philly’s Crown Jewel, Sapphira...

FILM

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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