Pennsylvania gets another shout-out from ‘Will and Grace’ stars
The cast of “Will and Grace,” a show noted for raising LGB visibility, reunited this week for a video that touts the importance of Pennsylvania...
DNC Host Committee spent two-thirds of budget with diverse businesses
The Philadelphia Host Committee for the Democratic National Convention spent 67 percent of its multi-million-dollar budget with diverse businesses, nearly doubling its 35-percent goal....
OITNB stars encourage LGBT voter outreach in Philadelphia
A star from "Orange is the New Black" helped launch an LGBT voter outreach initiative Saturday night in the Gayborhood. Uzo...
Black and Brown Workers Collective demands accountability from Office of LGBT...
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect concerns from the Black and Brown Workers Collective. A quote from Abdul-Aliy Muhammad was not...
LGBT police group prez: Trump ‘represents none of us’
The president of the Greater Philadelphia Gay Officer Action League took to Facebook this week to publish a nearly 800-word post disagreeing with the...
Study: Philly LGBT smoking rates lower than other areas of state
Tobacco usage emerged as an unexpected health disparity for LGBT people in Pennsylvania, according to results from a study led by the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT...
Creating Change host committee seeking volunteers
A frequent refrain from the September meeting of the local host committee for Creating Change was, “We need more people to sign up.” ...
From ‘Leno’ to ICandy, out comedian entertains, educates
“When people think security doorman at a club, they probably don’t think comedian with Tourette’s,” laughed Louis Centanni. But Centanni embraces...
Philly couple has winning New Orleans wedding
Lindsey Bell enters contests all the time, so she didn’t even think twice about putting her and fiancée Megan Haupt’s names down for a...
Small-biz workshops start at Bradbury-Sullivan
Adrian Shanker met representatives from the U.S. Small Business Administration at the 2015 CenterLink conference for LGBT community centers. He was in the homestretch...
Morris 911-recordings case moves forward
Mediation has ended in PGN’s open-records request for a certified copy of all 911 recordings pertaining to the Nizah Morris incident from the Philadelphia...
AIDS Walk Delaware celebrates 30 years
The 30th anniversary of AIDS Walk Delaware is likely to mark a return to a banner year with about 1,000 people expected to travel...
Gay man seeks court order for city to investigate his antibias...
“John Doe,” a Philadelphia gay man, wants a federal judge to order the city’s Human Relations Commission to investigate his antibias complaint against Elwyn...
Man claims injuries inside Woody’s Bar
James Stefanide 2d is seeking compensation after he says he was seriously injured inside Woody’s Bar last year. Stefanide, of Drexel...
40 Years Ago: Sept. 23-29, 2016
Actions at Republican convention have little impact Adapted from reporting by M. David Stein National media lacked coverage of gay demonstrations...
First Bi Visibility celebration in Philly set for Friday
Last year, less than two-dozen people stood outside William Way LGBT Community Center to watch Nellie Fitzpatrick of the Philadelphia Office of LGBT Affairs...
Casey urges NCAA to move championships to Pennsylvania
The same week the NCAA pulled all its 2016-17 neutral-site games from North Carolina because of the state’s anti-LGBT law known as HB2, Sen....
Wilkes-Barre protects LGBT residents in newly established human relations commission
In a unanimous vote, Wilkes-Barre City Council enacted LGBT-nondiscrimination protections and established a human relations commission to hear complaints from a variety of protected...
New LGBT Catholic group forms with eye on advocacy
When Archbishop Charles J. Chaput was installed in Philadelphia in 2011, many friends of Seth Jacobson wrote the Catholic leader “loving letters about how...
Faith Issue 2016
PGN's second-annual Faith Issue highlights the local faith leaders, organizations and programs that are working to bridge gaps between LGBTs and communities of faith.
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