City cancels large public events through Feb. 2021
The city of Philadelphia announced on Tuesday a moratorium on all large city-permitted public events through February of next year. Mayor Jim Kenney shared...
15 state senators back Catholic agency in foster dispute
Fifteen Pennsylvania state senators have submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court urging the justices to compel the City of Philadelphia to...
Gayborhood coffee shop to close permanently
Square One Coffee, the cafe on 13th street in the heart of the Gayborhood, has decided to close its doors for good. The shop...
Philly’s Pride flag makes waves around the world
The first Pride parades took place in America in 1970, and the concept quickly went international. But one LGBTQ export is uniquely Philadelphia’s, and...
What’s next for LGBT nonprofits?
For our community’s nonprofit organizations, the past few months have been challenging financially, from the inability to host in-person gatherings and fundraisers to the...
Black queer entertainers address discrimination
On Sunday, June 28, drag performers VinChelle and Icon Ebony-Fierce teamed up with Amber Hikes, former city director of LGBT Affairs, to host a...
LGBTQ sports teams adjust to pandemic playing field
In 1976, the year PGN began publishing, we reported on an all-gay baseball team formed by a group of Gay Activists Alliance members. The...
Global Pride embraces, educates LGBTQ communities worldwide
It wasn’t long into the COVID-19 pandemic that cities and countries around the world began cancelling their pride celebrations. This past Sunday, June 28,...
Philly’s Queer Community Marches for Black Lives
Despite the heat and humidity, a diverse crowd of hundreds gathered in Love Park on Sunday, June 21, for the Philly Queer March for...
City approves budget cuts from police, fire departments
City Council and the City of Philadelphia have approved the 2021 budget for the fiscal year. The City will be reducing the police budget...
LGBTQ Organizations Sue Trump Administration for Healthcare Rollback
A coalition of organizations and individual doctors are suing the Trump administration for its recent rollback of LGBTQ healthcare protections. Among the plaintiffs are...
Memorial held for Black trans murder victim Dominique Rem’mie Fells’, police...
“They callin’ you an icon, girl,” recited Dominique Rem’mie Fells’ friend, Rhea, from a poem she wrote, “They callin’ you a voice. But they...
Supreme Court win for LGBTQ community
LGBTQ+ advocates are hailing today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that existing federal law forbids job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender...
Warrant issued for suspect in the murder of Dominique Rem’mie Fells
“People have been donating a lot of flowers. Rem’mie would have loved all the colors,” said Alonda Talley, a current resident of Morris Home...
City announces independent review of Philadelphia police use of force during...
The City of Philadelphia released a statement as of Monday, June 15, to announce that it would be engaging an independent consultant to review...
Black trans woman, Dominique Rem’mie Fells, found dead on banks of...
“One more precious Black trans woman’s life has been violently taken,” said trans woman and community organizer, Deja Lynn Alvarez. Just before 7 p.m....
Is Mayor Kenney’s removal of homophobic and racist Rizzo statue and...
In the early hours of May 31, after weekend protests against the nationwide killing of unarmed Black people raged on Philly streets, a City...
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...
Trump administration sides with Catholic agency in foster-care dispute
The U.S. Department of Justice recently filed a friend-of-the-court brief that sides with Catholic Social Services of Philadelphia in its legal battle to receive...
Mazzoni Center mobile unit offers free take-home HIV tests to the...
Last week, the Mazzoni Center — an LGBTQ health services organization — announced a new program to test for HIV in Philadelphia communities: an...
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