PA Republican urges support for ENDA
A Republican Congressman from the Lehigh Valley last week continued to advocate for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. ENDA, which the Senate passed...
New stage, host for Miss’d America
Organizers of the 2013 Miss’d America Pageant are gearing up to wow audiences next week with some big changes for the annual event. ...
World AIDS Day 2017
HIV/AIDS and LGBT service providers from around the region collaborated on this special supplement to mark World AIDS Day. From facts and figures to...
Galaei introduces new ‘zine to tell youth stories
’Zines are self-published mini-magazines that are often filled with stories, photographs and content geared toward specific audiences and have recently gained popularity with youth...
Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks LGBT volunteers at Boxers
As a student at the University of Delaware in the early 1980s, Renna Van Oot drove to the nearby offices of Big Brothers Big...
Equality Advocates board resigns
Nearly all of the board members of LGBT legal organization Equality Advocates Pennsylvania have resigned within the past two weeks. Ten...
Engagement: Gabrielle Gibson and Jaden Rogers
After talking for several months on Facebook, Gabrielle Gibson and Jaden Rogers had their first official date at Longwood Gardens in October 2014. “We...
News Briefing
PAC down to seven commissioners The city’s Police Advisory Commission has 12 vacant commissioner positions, including four alternate slots, officials said this week. ...
Film festival heats up screens
About 24,000 people are expected to flood local theaters next week for the 19th annual QFest. The LGBT film festival runs...
LGBT Catholic group celebrates 40 years
Philadelphia’s only Catholic LGBT organization, Dignity Philadelphia, will celebrate its 40th anniversary later this month. Dignity president David Kalinowski said...
The Attic revives trans youth programming
The Attic Youth Center is calling all transgender and questioning youth to be active participants in the revitalization of a program that seeks to...
Several news orgs, including PGN, unite as part of a new...
News Is Out: National Queer Media Collaborative, a brand new a partnership of seven LGBTQ+ news outlets from around the U.S., will soon launch...
Gala to honor 20 years of fighting HIV
HIV advocates will come together this weekend to support Philadelphia FIGHT and pay tribute to all those who have lost their fight with the...
Revisiting Reminder Day, nearly 50 years later
On July 4, 1965, John James traveled to Philadelphia to march among a group of gay and lesbian demonstrators calling for liberty for LGBT...
PA anti-bullying bill in the works
State Rep. Mike O’Brien this week introduced a bill that seeks to strengthen the state’s anti-bullying law and is modeled after New...
PA Youth Congress holds press conference demanding nondiscrimination laws
The Pennsylvania Youth Congress hosted a press conference on Monday to launch Pennsylvania Values, a community-based initiative that calls for the Pennsylvania General Assembly...
Planned LGBT-friendly housing project receives $100K grant
Two local nonprofit organizations have partnered up to support young-adult programs. The Philadelphia Foundation (TPF) provided a $100,000 grant to Project HOME, an organization...
LGBT flag football team charges forward
The Greater Philadelphia Flag Football League, which began organizing late last year and officially launched in the spring, will kick off its inaugural fall...
International
Russian lawmaker proposes free ‘ex-gay’ therapy A senior Russian lawmaker wants to offer free psychotherapy to LGBT Russians. Mikhail Degtyarev...
VICTORY! Marriage equality comes to America
Marriage equality is now a nationwide reality. In a landmark vote June 26, the U.S. Supreme Court found that the U.S....
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