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Hearing set in Williams case A status conference is scheduled this month in the case of Charles N. Sargent, who’s accused...
News Briefing
Smithson hearing postponed An evidentiary hearing for William F. Smithson has been postponed until May so that his new court-appointed attorney can become more familiar...
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...
Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta joins Black Democrats in House takeover to demand...
Standing behind a Black Lives Matter banner, a coalition of Black Democrats took over the speaker’s rostrum of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives this...
End of an era: Ally-Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown won’t run for...
Blondell Reynolds Brown will be giving up her seat on Philadelphia City Council when her term expires, but she makes it clear she’s not...
Out controller candidate withdraws from race
Out City Controller candidate Michael Williams announced March 27 that he was ending his campaign. Williams was set to go up against...
Reading Pride to feature new partnerships, weddings
LGBTs and allies will be partying in the park this weekend in Reading. The eighth-annual Reading Pride will run noon-6...
Media Trail
Men’s college nixes cross-dressing CNN. com reports an all-male college in Atlanta has banned the wearing of women’s clothes and makeup as...
LGBT seniors: Out of the closet and nowhere to go
In June, the queer community will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Stonewall. Along with that celebration comes the reality that many who...
40 Years Ago in PGN: July 15-21, 2016
‘Sodomy’ repeal bill gets stalled Adapted from reporting by PGN staff A bill to repeal Pennsylvania’s law prohibiting “deviate sexual intercourse,”...
William Way opts out of senior housing
Philadelphia’s proposed LGBT senior-housing program saw a setback last week as the William Way LGBT Community Center withdrew its partnership from the initiative. ...
Kathleen Kane, AG who refused to defend marriage ban, resigns
Kathleen Kane, who started her term as Pennsylvania attorney general in 2013 by refusing to defend the state’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples,...
National gay pageant to be held in Philly
Last month Philadelphia was selected to host next year’s national lesbian softball World Series, and this month the good news kept coming with the...
International News
Transgender activists on trial in Turkey International human-rights groups are calling on officials in Turkey to drop charges against five transgender-rights activists on...
LGBT History Month: Rivendell paves the way for LGBT publications
For more than 30 years, Rivendell Media, the nation’s leading LGBT publications-placement firm, has left its mark on advertising — the business of LGBT...
First-ever LGBT ‘panic’ bill intro’d in PA House
A state lawmaker last week introduced the first-ever legislation that would prohibit accused murderers of invoking a “panic” defense based on a victim’s LGBT...
Dr. Rachel Levine selected for Biden administration
Trans advocates are lauding President-elect Joe Biden’s announcement he will nominate Dr. Rachel Levine as assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Dept. of...
PA men jailed in child-molestation cases
Police in Northeastern Pennsylvania arrested an 85-year-old school crossing guard April 6 and charged him with sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy. ...
Gayborhood Crime Watch
The following incidents in the Midtown Village and Washington Square West areas were reported to the Sixth Police District between Jan. 31-Feb....
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