40 Years Ago in PGN: April 22-28, 2016
Antigay posters found in Center City Adapted from reporting by PGN staff Antigay posters were found around the Gayborhood in spring...
Kenney enacts travel ban to North Carolina, Mississippi
Mayor Jim Kenney has enacted a travel ban on non-essential, city-funded travel to North Carolina and Mississippi in the wake of anti-LGBT laws in...
MontCo school adopts trans and gender-nonconforming policy
The board of the Springfield Township School District in Montgomery County unanimously adopted a policy April 19 detailing how to make district facilities and...
Philly DA announces hotline for Election Day issues
With high voter turnout expected for Pennsylvania’s primary April 26, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams advised voters to use the Election Fraud Task Force...
LGBT activists trained in Philly
Twenty people spent five days in Philadelphia last week learning the ins and outs of advocating for LGBT nondiscrimination legislation. The...
LoveStory contest video now live
Jerry Makos and Tik Jaidee’s relationship has spanned seven years — and a local production company has captured it all in just 11 minutes....
Deadline passes for Knott appeal
It appears that Kathryn Knott will not file a full appeal of her prison sentence. Knott was convicted of assault and...
Garden State Equality hires new executive director
Christian Fuscarino will be the new executive director of Garden State Equality, the statewide organization that advocates for LGBT equality. The organization announced his...
LasciviousJane is International Ms. Leather 2016
LasciviousJane, Ms. Philadelphia Leather 2015 and artistic director of Liberty City Kings, has been named International Ms. Leather 2016. From April 14-17...
Dyke March makes $1K at first fundraiser of the year
The Philadelphia Dyke March raised nearly $1,000 at a karaoke happy hour at Tavern on Camac Thursday night when it kicked off fundraising for...
Judge: Morris records belong in a homicide file
A Philadelphia judge last week said computer-assisted dispatch records pertaining to the Nizah Morris incident belong in an official homicide file. ...
Allentown mayor, state politicians among hundreds at Bradbury-Sullivan ribbon cutting
Andy Dalpe and his partner Wally Barnette were the first to get “legally hitched” in Glen Gardner, N.J., just over the Pennsylvania border from...
PA appeals court asked to rule on civil-union case
A Philadelphia woman is asking an appeals court to allow the dissolution of her civil union to proceed — more than a decade after...
Executive orders meant to advance PA Fairness Act
With the budget battle concluded, there’s an opening to turn the state’s focus to LGBT nondiscrimination legislation. So says Sam Gehler, field director for...
State legislator defends 911 dispatch-records bill
State Rep. Maria P. Donatucci (D-Phila.) is defending a bill she says is aimed at protecting the anonymity of 911 callers in dangerous situations....
School district pushes for dismissal of bullying suit
Officials at the Bangor Area School District continue to seek the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by the parents of a bisexual girl who...
LGBT state employees recall Gov. Shapp’s original nondiscrimination order at anniversary...
In 1976, Marilyn Hewitt hadn’t yet come out as a lesbian to her parents or sisters, much less colleagues at work with the Commonwealth...
Obituary: Lawrence Frazier, former COLOURS leader, 39
Lawrence Frazier, a longtime employee of The COLOURS Organization and a fixture in the ballroom community, died April 10 of natural causes. He was...
Message of empowerment at Youth Action Conference
The fifth-annual Pennsylvania Youth Action Conference was held April 8-10 at the University of Pennsylvania, bringing together more than 100 youth activists throughout Pennsylvania...
State board of probation and parole hires out chairman
Out lawyer Leo Dunn recently took the reins of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole with an aim to improve conditions for inmates...
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