Gay attorney’s antibias case resolved
The federal antibias case of Jeffrey S. Downs was resolved this week. In a one-page order signed by U.S. District Judge L. Felipe Restrepo...
GayBINGO celebrates 20 years
One night in the late 1990s, Eric Wichner, then the executive director of AIDS Fund, invited Robb Reichard to join him for a happy...
Paint Day scheduled for Casarez mural
The life and legacy of Gloria Casarez will be memorialized in the Gayborhood, starting next weekend. The LGBT and ally community...
First-ever LGBT Senior Prom to be held at William Way
The ballroom of the William Way LGBT Community Center will be decked out in two historic rainbow banners and balloons next weekend. ...
Sex takes center stage at yearlong Penn forum
Desiree Akhavan, who played Chandra on season four of Lena Dunham’s HBO series “Girls,” will help to kick off the Penn Humanities Forum’s yearlong...
Obituary: Brenda Torres, project manager and bar owner, 45
Brenda Torres, the co-founder of the city’s first-ever Latino Pride festival and former co-owner of a local LGBT Latino bar, died Sept. 3 at...
Philadelphia gets grant to help men of color with HIV
The Philadelphia Department of Public Health received a grant this month to help develop HIV prevention and care programs for gay and bisexual men...
Trans woman goes ahead with surgery after court battle
Trans woman Christine Kitzler underwent gender-reassignment surgery Sept. 3, one day after a Bucks County judge cleared the way for the procedure, despite objections...
Antigay Kentucky clerk jailed
The Kentucky clerk who has refused to issue marriage licenses over her opposition to marriage equality is now in jail. A...
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...
N.J. cop files sexual-harassment suit
Haddon Township Police Officer Jason DeMent says he faces dismissal after he rebuffed Haddon Township Police Chief Mark Cavallo’s sexual advances, then requested a...
Who’s who among antibias-bill backers
The long-awaited legislation to ban LGBT discrimination in Pennsylvania made its way back into the state legislature last week — a bill that has...
Eight men in Delaware sting operation get probation
Eight of the 12 men arrested during a recent sting operation near Rehoboth Beach were given brief periods of probation, in return for an...
Hearing scheduled for ‘suitcase’ murder
A man accused of stabbing and beating to death a local gay man, and disposing of his body in a suitcase, was formally arraigned...
Three years pass since Cordova murder
The frustration Kyra Cordova’s mother feels when speaking about her daughter’s homicide case is almost palpable. “I don’t know how many...
Will state agency investigate LGBT antibias complaints?
Despite recent rulings by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that anti-LGBT workplace bias is a form of sex discrimination, it remains unclear whether...
Penn earns top marks as LGBT-friendly campus
After three months of gathering information for the Campus Pride Index, the University of Pennsylvania earned a perfect score as an LGBT-friendly campus. ...
Miss’d America back with some big changes
If you’re looking for an escape from Popefest later this month, high-tail it to Atlantic City for the annual Miss’d America Pageant, which this...
Obituary: Jacob Kaskey, former Equality PA staffer, 33
Jacob Kaskey, a lobbyist and former staffer of Pennsylvania’s largest LGBT-rights organization, died late last month. The cause of death was ruled accidental. He...
Suspect arrested in brutal attack on trans woman
A transgender woman was among three people who were violently attacked in North Philadelphia last week, allegedly by the same man. ...
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