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Police not guilty of alleged DYKETACTICS abuse Adapted from reporting by Betti Watts Officers of the Philadelphia Civil Disobedience Squad accused...

The older-adult population in the United States currently represents the fastest-growing segment in the country’s workforce. By 2020, people over the age of 55...

Staff, clients and supporters of AIDS Services in Asian Communities will gather later this month to usher in the Chinese New Year in style....

The two companies that stage the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival have separated from one another, and as a result the city...

  On a whim, Jason Landau Goodman decided to travel to Dallas in 2010 for Creating Change, the annual conference hosted by the National...

Attorneys for a transgender inmate in Georgia recently filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit asking a judge to order the inmate’s transfer to a women’s...

  Teresa Carr Deni served in numerous leadership positions in the field of law prior to running for district attorney. This includes membership in...

Alfred W. Zaher, a longtime partner at the Blank Rome law firm, filed suit last week, alleging he was pressured to leave the firm...

Investigators are seeking a man in connection with a three-alarm fire in the Gayborhood Sept. 15, said Steven Bartholomew, public information officer for the...

As 2019 begins, local LGBTQ-serving nonprofit organizations have big plans for the upcoming year including celebrating milestones, bolstering community-based programs and services, and changing...

This year has presented its fair share of challenges. Since the inauguration, President Donald Trump has attempted to roll back several LGBT rights throughout...

Demonstrating his inclusive politics, President-elect Barak Obama has asked Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson, the denomination’s first gay bishop, to give the...

Court of Common Pleas Judge Dan Anders and Municipal Court Judge Dawn Segal were among the more-than 25 inductees, including District Attorney Seth Williams,...

A federal lawsuit filed by parents of a student who allegedly suffered pervasive anti-LGBT harassment in Bangor, Pa., because she was perceived to be...

The Philadelphia Gay News won seven Keystone Press Awards this year, an honor that not only recognizes professional excellence, but journalism that “consistently provides...

 Fringe-A-Thon, FringeArts’s annual 12-hour dance party fundraiser, offers this year’s attendees a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to have their cake and eat cake it too —...

Adrian Rivera-Reyes, an out gay Latinx Philadelphia resident, just became one of 15 new appointees as a commissioner for the Pennsylvania Governor’s Advisory Committee...

  When it was heading into the double-elimination round of the 2016 ASANA World Series last month, Nick’s Bar and Grille, a Philadelphia team...

A Philadelphia judge this week dismissed all charges against Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian, who was involved in a train derailment in Port Richmond that killed...

Episcopal Church backs some LGBT rights at convention Adapted from reporting by Harry Langhorne There were six pro-LGBT resolutions approved at the...