Anti-trans CHIP bill amended
The state Senate this week passed an amendment to an anti-trans bill that would limit the scope of its impact on trans youth enrolled...
Top Stories 2015
This was a banner year for LGBT rights. Nationally, marriage equality was finally won and trans visibility reached new heights. Locally, Philly celebrated its...
Clay Studio marks Pride with LGBT Date Night
Throw on your smocks! A local arts organization is inviting couples to make their next date night a little dirty. Clay...
OutFest celebration allegedly ends in broken jaw for trans man
A trans man wearing a “Trans Lives Matter” sweatshirt was reportedly attacked inside an Old City 7-Eleven near 3rd and Market streets Sunday at...
Council committee approves ban on conversion therapy
A committee of Philadelphia City Council took a step Monday to make the city the second in Pennsylvania to ban conversion therapy for youth. ...
Incoming Mazzoni Center CEO: ‘I want to hear what the staff...
Lydia Gonzalez Sciarrino is making history this month as the first straight ally to lead Mazzoni Center. “I feel honored about that,” Gonzalez Sciarrino...
Trans attorney files appeal for Morris records
Julie Chovanes, a Philadelphia-based transgender attorney, this week continued her year-long quest for records relating to the Nizah Morris case at the Philadelphia District...
RNC Recap: Day One
The RNC began in Cleveland on Monday with the themes of party unity and Make America Great Again. The Pennsylvania GOP...
International News, April 5-11, 2019
George Clooney calls for boycott of hotels over anti-gay law George Clooney is calling for a boycott of nine hotels in the United States...
New gay allegations leveled at fallen church leader
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A young man who formerly attended New Life Church says that then-pastor Ted Haggard performed a sex act...
City settles gay cop case
N. Melville Jones, an openly gay Philadelphia police officer, settled his antibias lawsuit against the city in return for expanded LGBT-related sensitivity training within...
Village People to headline Pride
The group that gave us “Y. M.C.A.” and “Macho Man” will headline this year’s Philadelphia Pride Parade and Festival. The disco...
NBC’s new diversity officer settles in
NBC Universal recently named Craig Robinson as its new chief diversity officer for the company. Robinson, who is openly gay, had...
Obituary: James Russell ‘JR’ Guthrie, writer and IT expert, 68
James Russell “JR” Guthrie, former PGN editor, died Dec. 20. He was 68. Guthrie, a George Washington University graduate, had a...
Second trans woman dies in ICE custody
A transwoman from El Salvador who was being held by U.S. immigration authorities died June 1 — the first day of Pride month, and...
City courts prospective LGBTQ foster parents
An LGBTQ foster-parent recruitment session to encourage more LGBTQ people to open their homes to children in need attracted an “overwhelming” number of agencies...
Colours holds winter necessities drive at William Way
Abraham Tomo, Jr. wants everyone to think about how it would feel during the winter to be a homeless LGBTQ youth or elder in...
What to do during Pride
Pride shhhOUT! Pride Kick-Off Block Party Friday, June 7, 4 p.m. Toasted Walnut is hosting a two-day Pride kick-off party, including a block party...
Philly AIDS Thrift to reopen Giovanni’s Room
The doors to the nation’s oldest LGBT bookstore have been closed all summer. But a deal was inked last week that will reopen them....
Equality PA hires trans-rights organizer
Equality Pennsylvania is taking a big step forward in addressing transgender issues with the hiring of Daye Pope as the agency’s new transgender-rights organizer....
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