Shut Up & Dance gets new host
Local drag celeb Martha Graham Cracker has been tapped to host this year's "Shut Up & Dance," the annual ballet benefit for Metropolitan Area...
LGBT college centers talk info sharing, racial justice at Creating Change
Zaneta Rago-Craft started a #TalkAboutItTuesdays campaign this year on the Facebook page for the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals, a group of...
Mummers meeting with LGBT community
Mummers leadership has spent the last week meeting with LGBT leaders to discuss the nuances of the LGBT community and how to “punch up”...
PAT doubles grantmaking program
In the second year of its grantmaking program, Philly AIDS Thrift more than doubled the amount of money it distributed and the number of...
Equality PA to organize around issues, not regions
Equality Pennsylvania, the state’s top LGBT advocacy organization, is hiring to fill two new positions: youth organizer and racial-justice organizer. “We’re...
Judge denies court-appointed attorney for gay inmate
U.S. Magistrate Judge Kathleen M. Tafoya has denied the request of openly gay inmate Kenneth J. Houck Jr. for a court-appointed attorney to assist...
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...
Judge approves transparency in church sex-abuse case
Attorneys for the family of a young man who died from a drug overdose — the result of years of substance addiction after a...
40 Years Ago in PGN: Jan. 22-28, 2016
National survey finds pro-gay police departments Adapted from reporting by M. David Stein Five police departments across the country responded in...
FIGHT debuts dental services
Philadelphia FIGHT, an AIDS-service organization that recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, has another reason for excitement: A dental-services program launched this month. ...
Creating Change update: Philly Black Pride pulls ideas from conference
Evolution is necessary in a sustainable organization, said Le Thomas, president of Philadelphia Black Pride. He met with PGN in Chicago Wednesday evening after...
Philly man to co-write Jenner memoir
Philadelphia writer Buzz Bissinger has been tapped to help Caitlyn Jenner publish a memoir. Bissinger is a former writer for...
Visit Philly debuts LGBT emojis
The next time friends ask each other to meet in the Gayborhood, they just might make the request with a Philly Emoji. ...
Surrogacy case appealed to PA top court
Actress and former talk-show personality Sherri Shepherd is asking Pennsylvania's top court to overturn a lower-court ruling that validated gestational-surrogacy contracts, which was a boon for many same-sex...
AIDS agency sued for sexual harassment
AIDS Care Group, a major HIV/AIDS services agency in the region, has been slapped with a federal sexual-harassment lawsuit. Dr. Emmanuella...
William Way elects board at first meeting of 2016
The William Way LGBT Community Center elected several members to its board of directors Jan. 8 at its first board meeting of the year....
Sex conviction appealed in Supreme Court
Kenneth Schneider, a Philadelphia-area attorney who traveled with a 15-year-old boy to Russia with the intention of sexually abusing him, wants the U.S. Supreme...
40 Years Ago in PGN: Jan. 15-21, 2016
Newspaper heir murdered Adapted from reporting by Richard Rusinow After the heir of the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain was found murdered Dec. 7, 1975, Philadelphia...
PA Horticultural Society hires out president
Matt Rader took the reigns this week as the 37th president of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, responsible for the annual Philadelphia Flower Show and...
Women’s event returns to center with expanded schedule
A dance party catering to older women in the LGBT community returns to the William Way LGBT Community Center this weekend — and twice...
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