Community shows support for LGBT veterans
More than 50 people showed their support for LGBT veterans in the City Hall courtyard at a rally Thursday. The city’s Office of LGBT...
Local vet speaks out about trans military ban
Joanne Carroll thought the president, to whom Carroll does not refer by name, was “ridiculous” after he tweeted a plan to ban transgender people...
Another man claims antigay bias at Hershey School
Marcous Marchese, a 2011 graduate of Milton Hershey School, recently spoke publicly about being pressured into viewing a religiously oriented antigay video at the...
School district acknowledges free-speech violation in abortion flap
School-district officials in Downingtown recently acknowledged wrongdoing by Zachary Ruff, a former administrator who had a heated exchange with anti-abortion protesters outside S.T.E.M. Academy....
Trial scheduled in Bangor school-abuse case
Jury selection has been tentatively scheduled for June 2018 in the case of Tammy and Russell Bittenbender, who claim their daughter suffered extensive abuse...
New Hope Celebrates expands board
A Pennsylvania town’s LGBT organization last month announced six new board-member positions and plans for future programming. New Hope Celebrates will...
After losses, community members host pet fundraiser
Local community members will channel their grief from their pets’ recent deaths into a fundraiser for a veterinary clinic and two pet rescues. ...
PGN seeks complete case file in Morris open-records request
PGN this week asked a state agency to add four documents to the case file relating to the paper’s open-records request for Nizah Morris...
Delaware student overcomes obstacles to encourage acceptance
Wilmington Friends School is all about acceptance, said Hareena Houston. However, the 17-year-old wanted to show LGBT students outside of her Delaware-based Quaker school...
Woman found safe after alleged abduction that began in Gayborhood
*This story has been updated to include comments from Upper Darby Police Department Superintendent Mike Chitwood A man who may have been driving for a...
DOJ argues civil-rights law does not protect sexual-orientation discrimination
Hours after President Donald Trump unleashed a tweetstorm announcing a ban on transgender people from serving in the military “in any capacity,” his administration declared...
N.J. Gov. Christie signs two trans-inclusive bills
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed two trans-inclusive bills last week, which would develop guidelines for transgender students and prevent medical providers from discriminating...
Former administrator at vets’ home claims antigay bias
Michael J. Semian, a former top administrator at the Gino J. Merli Veterans’ Center in Scranton, recently filed a federal antibias lawsuit, claiming that...
PA LGBT Republicans speak out on intersecting identities
Gary Klinger is a man without a country. He is a Lancaster County Republican, and he is gay. Being a Republican in a red...
Penn’s LGBT Center to be renamed in honor of retiring director
The LGBT Center at the University of Pennsylvania will bear a new name this fall upon the retirement of its longtime director. On Oct....
ACT UP member arrested after act of civil disobedience in D.C.
Jose DeMarco told a group of protesters outside Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey’s office in Washington, D.C., about living with HIV since 1987. After telling...
Point-ed in the next direction: National LGBT scholarship group awards three...
Three Pennsylvania college students will continue their education with the help of the Point Foundation, a national scholarship organization for LGBT students. The recipients...
Hearing scheduled in New Jersey antibias case
Thomas Vandergrift, a gay man wrongfully suspected as a child molester, is fighting to clear his name. This week, a judge will consider whether...
Sale in jeopardy for LGBT-friendly youth facility
A judge last week green-lighted a bidding war for land that had been slated as the site of an LGBT-friendly youth-housing facility. ...
Assaulted inmate released to halfway house
Kenneth J. Houck Jr., an openly gay federal inmate who was brutally assaulted while detained in Philadelphia, last week was released to a halfway...
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