PA Gov. to ban LGBT discrimination by state contractors
On Thursday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is expected to issue executive orders that seek to close gaps created by the state legislature’s lack of...
Court allows gender-stereotyping claim
LGBT advocates are lauding an Aug. 28 ruling by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals that reversed a lower-court decision and allows...
Lib City endorses Sims, McGinty, Clinton
After a 20-minute debate and secret ballot voting, Katie McGinty emerged as Liberty City LGBT Democratic Club's preferred candidate to represent Pennsylvania in the U.S....
Musician convicted in sex case
Charles L. Cohen, a prominent musician who tried to have oral sex with an undercover cop posing as a 14-year-old boy on Craigslist, was...
PAC votes to subpoena Morris records
The Police Advisory Commission decided this week to subpoena Nizah Morris records from the District Attorney’s Office — setting the stage for an unprecedented...
Philly teen earns prestigious poetry title
Otter Jung-Allen just embarked on a one-year term as the Youth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. Jung-Allen, 16, is a resident of...
PGN publisher to receive state journalism award
Thirty years ago, PGN publisher Mark Segal went head to head with the Pennsylvania News-Media Association after it denied the publication membership to its...
Accused killer of trans woman to act as his own attorney
Charles N. Sargent, who's accused of the grisly slashing death of trans woman Diamond Williams, will act as his own attorney during his upcoming...
‘OITNB’ star Taryn Manning to DJ in Philly
Best known for playing a born-again inmate in the Netflix series “Orange is the New Black,” an iconic show for many LGBT people, Taryn...
Youth homeless agency receives $200K in stimulus to start LGBT program
The federal stimulus package will hit home for the local LGBT community, thanks to a grant bequested to a Philadelphia nonprofit that works to...
Nizah Morris advocates march through Center City
Holding candles and chanting "trans lives matter," about 60 advocates for Nizah Morris marched through Center City this week. The Dec. 22 event marked...
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Kenny Gambone (left) and Zeus Kain took to the ice Dec. 15 at Blue Cross River Rink at Penn’s Landing for the...
LGBT Commission considers Morris case
Trans attorney Julie Chovanes gave an impassioned presentation at the Sept. 12 meeting of the Mayor’s Commission on LGBT Affairs in Germantown, urging commissioners...
One month of marriage equality in PA
This Friday marks the first month of marriage equality in Pennsylvania. On May 20, Judge John E. Jones’s ruling overturning the...
New name, award for North Philly LGBT shelter
It’s been a busy first year for the LGBT shelter on North Hutchinson Street in North Philadelphia. The home has a new name, earned...
Antigay consulting firm cites, withdraws animal-rights clients:
A staffer at a consulting firm known nationally for its work on behalf of a number of conservative, often antigay, politicians and initiatives, has...
Locals tell youth ‘It gets better’
In the past month, thousands of LGBTs and allies from around the world have submitted videos to out writer Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better”...
GALAEI looks to future with new TIP hire
GALAEI: A Queer [email protected] Social Justice Organization has not had an executive director since February, but recently welcomed a new staffer and some executive...
Popular New Hope-based bed and breakfast goes up for sale
The Wishing Well Guest House started as an 1850s farmhouse and was transformed into a successful bed and breakfast in New Hope. Now...
IBA expanding reach with first Bucks event
LGBT businesspeople are invited to spend an evening during the Democratic National Convention on the back porch of the Bucks County Playhouse on the...
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