ACLU of PA gets new director
An openly gay man with more than a decade of experience at the national American Civil Liberties Union took the reins of the state...
Santas to sashay through the Gayborhood in new event
Hundreds of Santas are expected to sashay their way through the Gayborhood next month. Philly Pride Presents, along with Our Night Out,...
Full room for GALAEI workshop on LGBT youth engagement
Manny Coreano, a youth mentor at GALAEI: A Queer [email protected] Social Justice Organization, emphasized the importance of circles at a workshop he helped lead Friday on...
Media Trail
Texas gay bar raided Advocate. com reports police in Ft. Worth, Texas, raided a gay bar in the early hours of June...
West community keeps Akyra Murray’s memory alive, on and off the...
Beulah Osueke was sleeping in the early-morning hours of June 12, 2016, when her phone pinged with a text message. “It...
After fire, community comes together for ally
Kristen Brinkman only had enough time to grab her laptop, wallet, keys and dog and escape her Fishtown home before it was engulfed in...
Sounding off: Where city commissioner candidates stand on LGBT issues
PGN conducted interviews with candidates running in the May 19 municipal election about a wide range of LGBT issues, to inform our community about...
Trans-Health Conf. organizers expect record attendance
The 14th-annual Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference will pack the Pennsylvania Convention Center for three full days of educational and empowering trans-focused programming. ...
Gayborhood Crime Watch
The following incidents in the Midtown Village and Washington Square West areas were reported to the 6th Police District between Jan. 13-19....
Legislative action urged in wake of Orlando
In the wake of this month’s mass shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, U.S. Senators from Pennsylvania and one hopeful for the post...
Trans veteran Donna Mae Stemmer buried with male name
The only person in the world who would have a pair of star-spangled, beaded bloomers was Donna Mae Stemmer, said Michael Byrne of his...
International News
Hong Kong court denies male status to three transgender men Hong Kong’s High Court has refused to allow three transgender men to be recognized...
Out lesbian at center of Cosby case
After two days in a special hearing, Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O’Neill decided Wednesday to proceed with charges against comedy icon Bill Cosby...
Prop. 8 backers ask to shield donors
SAN FRANCISCO — The sponsors of the November ballot measure that outlawed same-sex marriage in California want a judge to seal selected documents and...
Fate of Giovanni’s Room still pending
Giovanni’s Room owner Ed Hermance told PGN this week that plans are still pending on the sale of the oldest LGBT bookstore in the...
CDC takes over couples HIV testing initiative
Earlier this month, Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health announced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would take over its innovative HIV-testing...
Judge: No delay in gay-cop trial
Common Pleas Judge Linda A. Carpenter last week refused to postpone a trial in the antibias case of N. Melville Jones. ...
Kenneth Andrews, freelance photographer, 61
Kenneth Andrews, local freelance photographer, died Feb. 6 of natural causes. He was 61. Andrews was born March 14, 1953, in the...
Appeal for Morris dispatch records moves forward
Efforts to settle PGN’s open-records request for complete dispatch records pertaining to the Nizah Morris incident from the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office have been...
Gays included in domestic-violence law
A law went into effect this week that requires all employers in Philadelphia to provide unpaid leave for workers or their close family members...
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