Domestic-violence organization reaches out to LGBT youth
Although domestic violence is typically considered an issue that only heterosexual women are faced with, one local organization is seeking to raise awareness about...
Acosta Award winner takes on leadership, trans issues:
A local young transgender woman has made it her mission to help the trans community triumph over the challenges in their lives. ...
Spring Wedding Issue 2018
Same-sex marriages may occur every day now with marriage equality being the law of the land, but hearing romantic love stories will always make...
C. Everett Koop: A remembrance
When I heard that former U. S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop had died Feb. 25 at age 96, I let out a...
Local schools designated ‘No Place for Hate’
Students at a handful of local schools spent the last year striving to eliminate bigotry and bias from their classrooms. Six...
State agency supplements Morris case file
A state agency last week added four documents to a case file relating to PGN’s appeal for Nizah Morris 911 recordings from the Philadelphia...
Plans forming for Gayborhood Orlando fundraiser
Politicians, Philadelphia police and a business leader are among the nine confirmed guest bartenders for a multi-bar Philly4Pulse fundraiser slated for July 21 in...
Wilkes-Barre moves to protect LGBT residents
Dee Culp was volunteering last year with the Rainbow Alliance to rejuvenate the human-relations commission in Scranton the first time she heard about a...
‘Denial of Care Rule’ struck down again
On Nov. 19, U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued an opinion and order in Santa Clara v. Azar, a case against a proposed Trump...
Vt. Senate OKs gay-marriage bill
MONTPELIER, Vt. — The northeastern state of Vermont has moved a step closer to becoming one of the few U.S. states where...
Gay couple awarded $31K in assault case
A New Jersey judge last week said a South Jersey bar is responsible for $31,000 in damages to a gay couple who claim the...
Commission on LGBT Affairs elects three officers
The city’s Commission on LGBT Affairs held elections last week for three board members: Sharron Cooks, Jason Evans and Libby Peters were elected as...
State College settles for $42K with lesbian employee in discrimination:
The final portion of a settlement between the State College Area School District and a lesbian who sued for domestic-partner benefits was announced this...
Philadelphia wins big at Gay Games
Team Philadelphia took home 38 medals at the 10th annual “gay Olympics” sports competition in Paris, France. Sixty LGBTQ-identified athletes comprising...
LGBTQ survivors of domestic violence speak out
Part one of a two-part series It was supposed to be a sex game. It turned into a rape. Terrell Johnson was only 20,...
Liberty City elects new leaders
Liberty City Democratic Club elected two new executive board members last week. At its May 5 meeting, the board selected Lee...
City clarifies transfer-tax exemption
Philadelphia’s revenue department is currently updating materials associated with the city’s real-estate transfer tax to raise awareness about a 2007 ruling that expanded the...
Attorney General orders FBI, Bureau of Prisons to examine LGBTQ discrimination
In a victory for LGBTQ employees at the U.S. Department of Justice, Attorney General William Barr ordered the FBI and the Bureau of Prisons...
Sisters building slated for reopening as straight bar
One year after the shuttering of the city’s longest-running lesbian bar, the building is being readied for reopening as a non-LGBT venue. ...
Media Trail: Sept. 6, 2019
LA police probe transgender women bar removal as hate crime The Fresno Bee reported Los Angeles police are investigating the aggressive removal of a...
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