A look at the LGBTQ+ elected officials in the Philadelphia region
In recent years, more and more members of the LGBTQ+ community have been running for public office, and many have been elected. In 2022,...
Member names released for DA’s LGBTQ+ Advisory Committee
On Jan. 21, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office released the names and brief biographies of the members of its new LGBTQ+ Advisory Committee.
The committee...
State Senate bills seek to aid name changes for trans Pennsylvanians
A cadre of Democratic lawmakers in the state Senate are seeking their colleagues’ support for a package of bills aimed at lifting the legal...
Love + Solidarity event to emphasize the diversity of love at...
In the spirit of togetherness and love in all forms, William Way LGBT Community Center will host its annual Love + Solidarity festival on...
Restrictions on blood donations from gay and bisexual men persist despite...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has yet to lift its three-month celibacy requirement for donations from men who have sex with men (MSM),...
Community leaders raise funds for trans focused LGBTQ+ Safe Haven
The leaders of Ark of Safety LGBTQ+ Safe Haven, a faith-based nonprofit that runs out of Next Level Revival Church, are working towards getting...
Trans woman sues Temple Health
A Philadelphia Trans woman has filed suit in federal court, alleging that Temple University Health System dismissed her as a dietary aide because she...
New poll shows LGBTQ youth mental health negatively impacted by anti-trans...
A poll released January 10 by the Trevor Project shows that over two-thirds of LGBTQ+ youth say their mental health has been negatively impacted...
AIDS Activities Coordinating Office seeks proposals for TelePrEP program
Philadelphia’s Activities Coordinating Office (AACO), a department of the Department of Public Health, recently put out a request for proposals (RFP) to establish a...
2022 starts with Anti-LGBT+ bills proposed
The new year has barely started, and 2022 is already a bad year for LGBTQ people. Republican legislators in Arizona, Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma,...
Community Briefs: January 12, 2022
Stephen Kulp elected to Philadelphia Bar Association Board of Governors
Stephen Kulp, a gay, Asian American lawyer who practices insurance defense, was elected to the...
Bebashi offering new support group to trans people of color
The team at Bebashi Transition to Hope continues to provide a safe spaces for transgender and gender nonbinary people of color through the support...
Patricia Colleen O’Connell, 74
Patricia Colleen O’Connell, 74, died at home on December 28th. Known by everyone as Colleen, she was the spouse of Connie Youkon for 42...
Sixers host annual Pride Night
The Philadelphia 76ers celebrated their annual Pride Night on January 3 at the Wells Fargo Center, along with a victory over the Houston Rockets...
Philly’s unique and successful Way Home program is helping LGBTQ people...
This story first appeared in Billy Penn.
Asyod Boyd’s personality spilled out all over his second-floor Southwest Philly apartment. There’s a set of weights in...
International News: Trans pride at the highest peaks
Erin Parisi, a trans mountain climber, has set herself on a journey of international trans pride. She intends to fly the trans flag from...
Veteran Pgh. blogger Sue Kerr launches new LGBTQ nonprofit
By Frank Pizzoli
Sometimes chaos creates its own order.
And now award-winning Pittsburgh-based blogger Sue Kerr has connected all the dots. The result is Pittsburgh LGBTQ...
Judge orders feds to assess inmate for gender-confirmation surgery
Citing undue delays, a federal judge in Illinois last week ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to assess an inmate for gender-confirmation surgery....
Person Of The Year: Elizabeth Coffey Williams
“I always say that what I do is, in my eyes, relatively small,” said LGBTQ+ advocate, quilter and former actress Elizabeth Coffey Williams. “But...
2021: The Year In Review
Canadians got a ban on conversion therapy. The U.S. didn’t.
The U.S. also didn’t get the Equality Act despite all the election rhetoric in 2020....
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