LGBT/Non-Binary Pride Celebration to take over Washington Square Park
When Kairo Evans created the Facebook event for the LGBT/Non-Binary Pride Celebration, she only anticipated inviting a few friends. But the 21-year-old artist, model...
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Trans teacher sues DC-area district, citing discrimination A transgender English teacher is suing a Maryland school district claiming that she was repeatedly harassed by...
Giant replies to antibias complaint
Giant Food Stores Co. recently replied to an antibias complaint filed by trans man Sam Melrath by denying most of the allegations in his...
Pride organizers converge on Philly
More than 100 organizers of LGBT pride events from along the East Coast will head to Philadelphia to take in the sights, sounds and...
Abington pol honored in national lesbian magazine
This month’s issue of Curve Magazine features an array of news stories, advice columns, a summer-travel preview and an interview with Pam Grier of...
Local couple talks upcoming ‘Love Train’ wedding
Neal Santos and Andrew Olson are in love with Philadelphia almost as much as they are in love with each other – and it...
Lib City endorses 10 candidates
When two women, both doctors in their 40s, wanted to get married in Montgomery County in the summer of 2013, they contacted the register...
Youth org. releases model policy for trans students
The Pennsylvania Youth Congress, a statewide LGBT organization, launched an online resource May 20 for school districts looking for guidance on transgender and gender...
Mazzoni Center board changes term limits, financial requirements
A local LGBT health and wellness center changed its board-of-director requirements and term limits after feedback from staff members to encourage diversity. ...
Animal programs cater to unique crowds
Three years ago, Buzz Miller fulfilled a life-long dream when he founded PACT For Animals, a nonprofit organization that helps place animals of hospital...
Trans library worker files federal bias lawsuit
Although trans woman Bobbie E. Burnett wants to leave her job at the Free Library of Philadelphia as soon as possible, she...
NC mom pleased with decision on lesbians, kids
ASHEVILLE, N. C. — A North Carolina mother says she hopes other gay and lesbian couples don’t have to suffer through her experience...
AIDS Fund announces Black-Tie GayBINGO honorees
A local community-affairs reporter and an HIV/AIDS grant-program committee will be honored at the AIDS Fund’s 19th-annual Black-Tie GayBINGO. KYW Newsradio...
City seeks dismissal of police brutality suit
The city has asked a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit of Luis A. Berrios 3d, a gay man who says Philadelphia police arrested...
Jesse J. Phillips, hotel employee, 54
Jesse J. Phillips, an employee at the Sheraton Hotel at 17th and Vine streets, died Jan. 6 at Pennsylvania Hospital of throat cancer. ...
Cops who allegedly abused gay man didn’t have LGBT training
Philadelphia police officers Michael Gentile and Robert Tavarez, who allegedly mistreated a gay man, never received any LGBT-sensitivity training prior to the incident, according...
Gay Temple web series now an Emmy nominee
What began as a junior-year film project for Temple University student Michael Busza has now become an Emmy-nominated hit. The student-produced web...
Catherine Burgi-Rios, activist and nurse, 55
Longtime Lehigh Valley LGBT activist Catherine Burgi-Rios died of leukemia Sept. 21. She was 55. Burgi-Rios was a tireless advocate for LGBT-rights...
Delaware law bans conversion therapy for minors
LGBT advocates in Delaware are praising last week’s passage of a bill that penalizes clinical professionals who practice conversion therapy on minors within the...
HBO slights gay bishop
The invocation delivered by the Rev. Gene Robinson, an openly gay Episcopalian bishop, during a Jan. 18 inauguration event was heard by...
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